JP5590937B2 - Attaching the ring label - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an instrument for positioning and attaching a ring-shaped label, and more particularly to an attaching method for attaching a ring-shaped label to an adherend such as a recording disk having a central hole or a disc-shaped grindstone for a grinder. Is.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, labels are attached to various products and other adherends, and various management information and other necessary information are displayed using characters, figures, barcodes, or the like. In addition, when a large amount of management information is required, an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) that has an IC chip and an antenna and can write and read data wirelessly is used as a label or tag. It is used in various fields such as necessary data management by reading and writing various data on various articles.

  Examples of adherends to which such labels or RFID labels are attached include information recording disks (hereinafter referred to as disks) such as CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray disks by various recording methods. At the center of these disks, a disk center hole for receiving the rotational drive of the disk drive is formed, and a ring-shaped label is attached around the disk center hole. In the disc rental industry, a label is used to identify a disc. In particular, an RFID label can be discriminated as a title or the like by wireless communication even when the disc is stored in a case. It is becoming popular for use in automatic rental machines that perform return unattended.

  Hereinafter, a ring-shaped RFID label will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 14A is a plan view, and FIG. 14B is a sectional view taken along the line bb.

  The ring-shaped RFID label 10 includes a long strip-shaped label base 6, a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 7 that is an adhesive coated on the label base 6, and the surface of the long strip-shaped base base 16. A continuous body of the inlets 22 in which the RFID inlets 22 composed of the annular antenna 18 and the memory IC 19 are arranged at a constant pitch, the second adhesive layer 17 and the separator 8 are stacked in this order. The die is cut into a double circular shape in accordance with the pitch, and the label residue and the central hole residue are removed from the surrounding unnecessary portions. Of the double circular shape of the RFID label 10, the outer periphery is set larger than the outer periphery of the annular antenna 18, and the inner periphery is set smaller than the inner periphery of the annular antenna 18. A timing mark 15 for detecting the label pitch is provided on the back surface of the separator 8.

  Next, based on FIG. 15 and FIG. 16, the operation of recording information on the ring-shaped RFID label 10 with a printer and attaching it to a disk will be outlined.

  FIG. 15 is a schematic side view of the RFID label printer 100 (thermal transfer printer). In the RFID label printer 100, a roll paper supply unit 151, a printing unit 161, and a peeling unit 131 are provided in a housing 152. A label roll around which a continuous RFID label 10 is wound is rotatably supported on the shaft of the roll paper supply unit 151. Further, in the casing 152, a guide roll 156, a paper sensor 157 for detecting the presence or absence of the label 10, and a timing mark 15 printed on the back surface of the separator 8 of the label continuous body 10 are sequentially provided along the travel route of the label 10. A timing mark sensor 158 for detection is attached. Downstream of the timing mark sensor 158, a built-in antenna 159 that transmits and receives information to and from the inlet 22, a printing unit 161 including a platen roller 162 and a thermal head 163 are arranged, and an issue port 154 is provided at an adjacent position. .

  A supply shaft 165 for the thermal transfer ribbon 168, a guide roll 166, and a take-up shaft 167 are provided above and around the printing unit 161 to form a travel path of the thermal transfer ribbon 168. The thermal transfer ribbon 168 is set on the supply shaft 165, guided between the platen 162 and the thermal head 163 by the guide roll 166, and pressed and held together with the label continuous body 10 by them. Then, the direction is changed upward by the turning member 164 downstream of the thermal head 163, and the head is directed to the winding shaft 167.

  A peeling unit 131 that peels the separator 8 from the printed label 10 is provided downstream of the printing unit 161. The peeling unit 131 includes a turning plate 132 that changes the conveying direction of the separator 8 to an acute angle, a driving roller 133 that holds and conveys the separator 8, a driven roller 134, and a separator winding shaft 135 that winds the separator 8.

    The printer 100 shown in FIG. 15 operates as follows. First, the roll of the RFID label 10 is set on the printer 100, and print data is sent from a host computer (not shown) to issue a print instruction. The platen roller 162 rotates, and the label continuous body 10 is conveyed to the printing unit 161 together with the thermal transfer ribbon 168 through the guide roll 156, the paper sensor 157, and the timing mark sensor 158. When the timing mark sensor 158 detects the timing mark 15, printing is started, and ink is melted and transferred from the thermal transfer ribbon 168 to the surface of the RFID label 10 by heat generation scanning of the thermal head 163, and an image 24 such as a barcode is printed. At the same time, information is transmitted to and received from the built-in antenna 159 in the inlet 22 of the RFID label 10 to write desired data. The RFID label 10 on which printing and information writing have been performed is conveyed in the direction of the turning plate 132 of the issue port 154. The printed ribbon 169 is wound around the winding shaft 167.

FIG. 16 shows a partially enlarged perspective view of the peeling means 131. RFID label 10 reaches the turning plate 132 as shown in the figure, separators 8 is pulled in different directions at an acute angle at the tip 132a of the turning plate 132 by rotation of the drive roller 133 and driven roller 134. At that time, since the RFID label 10 is strong and difficult to bend, the RFID label 10 moves straight, and only the separator 8 changes its direction and is peeled off from the RFID label 10. The RFID label 10 protrudes beyond the turning plate 132 in a state where the separator 8 is peeled off more than half of the traveling direction side and the adhesive is exposed. As shown in FIG. 15, the separated separator 8 is wound around a winding shaft 135 to become a separator roll 137.

  The RFID label 10 is peeled off from the separator 8 and is attached. The RFID label 10 is picked up with tweezers or a finger, and the circular inner hole is aligned with the central hole of the disk and is pasted so as to be concentric. Originally, a ring-shaped label to be attached to the disc needs to be attached concentrically to the center of the disc in order to ensure a weight balance even when the disc rotates at high speed. Even when the ring label is the RFID label 10, accurate positioning is required even if it is a general label.

However, it is difficult to apply the manual operation accurately and efficiently. In particular, since the label has a special shape such as a ring shape, there is a problem that it is difficult to maintain accuracy because the positioning of the attachment is performed visually. Although a dedicated machine for automatic attachment is desired, in the rental industry for CDs and DVDs, it is rare to apply a large number of RFID labels on which the same information is recorded to a disc of the same title in succession. It is. Most of the work involves issuing and pasting information labels corresponding to discs with different titles one by one, and the above-mentioned manual work must be the center.

  Further, in the ring-shaped label, there may be a case where an intermediate hole residue that is not used as a label remains in the center portion. Appropriate dedicated equipment is required to remove the medium hole residue, and the equipment is expensive. This is because if the ring-shaped label 10 is processed with a general-purpose label processing machine and the medium hole residue is left, the processing cost can be reduced. In this case, the label is affixed to the disc while removing the medium hole debris. However, when the ring-shaped label 10 is peeled off from the separator 8, the medium hole debris is also peeled together. The operation | movement which isolate | separates dregs is needed and causes the fall of work efficiency.

JP 2000-53115 A

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and a ring-shaped label or a ring-shaped RFID label is efficiently and accurately applied to a center hole of an information recording disk such as a CD or a DVD or a disk-shaped grindstone. An object of the present invention is to provide a method of attaching a ring-shaped label that can be positioned and attached to a ring.

In addition, the present invention provides a ring-shaped label affixing device that can be positioned and affixed efficiently and accurately while removing the medium-hole residue even when a medium-hole residue that is not used as a label remains inside the ring-shaped label . The purpose is to provide an attachment method .

That is, the present invention provides an information recording disc having a disc central hole with a ring-shaped label having a central circular hole having a diameter larger than that of the disc central hole and having a remaining hole in the middle hole. a disk center hole in use the disc, Ru paste method der where the circular bore of the ring-shaped label pasted to become concentric. A cylindrical body guide portion inscribed in a circular center hole of the ring-shaped label, one end of which is a cylindrical base portion inscribed in the center hole of the disc, and the other end is an introduction portion of the ring-shaped label, the introduction portion The head of the sticking device has a shape in which the diameter converges while protruding outward, and at least the surface of the introduction part is subjected to non-adhesive treatment, and the center of both the main body guide part and the base part is coincident. Insert the base into the center hole of the information recording disc and place the ring-shaped label with the remaining medium-hole residue on the application part of the affixing device to separate the medium-hole residue and the ring-shaped label along the main body guide. And moving only the ring-shaped label onto the information recording disc, and then removing the attaching device from the information recording disc and removing the medium hole residue from the attaching device. It is a method of bonding Jo label.
It is desirable that the length of the base portion does not exceed the thickness of the information recording disk.
The introduction part on the other end side of the main body guide part may have a dome shape protruding outward.
The introduction part on the other end side of the main body guide part may have a truncated cone shape protruding outward.
The introduction part on the other end side of the main body guide part may be formed flat.
The ring-shaped label may have an RFID inlet capable of wirelessly writing and reading data.

According to the method for attaching a ring-shaped label of the present invention, the ring-shaped label can be positioned and attached to the center hole of the disk with a simple operation regardless of the simple structure of the instrument. Specifically, the base part of the sticking device is fitted into the center hole of the disc, and after registering the disc and the sticking device, the ring-shaped label is moved along the main body guide portion and attached to the disc. Thus, the alignment between the ring-shaped label and the disk is performed. Furthermore, even when a circular medium hole residue remains in the center of the ring-shaped label, it is possible to easily remove the circular medium hole residue simultaneously with the attaching operation.

The perspective view and side view which show the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used with the sticking method of this invention. The perspective view which shows the relationship of the mutual magnitude | size of the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used with the sticking method of this invention, a disc, and a ring-shaped label. The figure explaining the usage method of the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used by this invention. The figure explaining the usage method of the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used by this invention. The figure explaining the usage method of the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used by this invention. The figure explaining the usage method of the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used by this invention. The figure explaining the usage method of the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used by this invention. The figure explaining the usage method of the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used by this invention. The figure explaining the usage method of the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used by this invention. The figure explaining another usage method of the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used by this invention. The figure explaining another usage method of the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used by this invention. The figure explaining another usage method of the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used by this invention. The figure explaining another usage method of the sticking instrument for ring-shaped labels used by this invention. The top view and sectional drawing of a ring-shaped RFID label. 1 is a schematic side view of a general RFID label printer. The principal part expansion perspective view which shows the peeling part of the printer for RFID labels.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail. FIG. 1 shows a ring-shaped label attaching device 1 used in the attaching method of the present invention. Fig.1 (a) is a perspective view of a sticking instrument, FIG.1 (b) is the side view. The main part of this sticking instrument is composed of a cylindrical main body guide part 2, and a cylindrical base part 3 having a smaller diameter than the main body guide part is formed on the bottom side thereof. The main body guide part 2 and the base part 3 are concentric. The head 4 at the other end of the main body guide portion 2 is formed in a dome shape and serves as an introduction portion for the ring-shaped label 10. Further, non-adhesive treatment is performed on the outer peripheral side surface of the main body guide portion 2 and the surface of the head portion 4 so that the adhesive does not adhere.

And paste tool 1 for-ring-shaped label 2 shows the mutual size relations of the disc 30 and the ring-shaped label 10. As shown in the figure, the diameter D1 of the base portion 3 is substantially the same as or slightly smaller than the diameter of the disc central hole 31 of the disc 30, and the base portion 3 inserted into the disc central hole 31 is formed in the disc central hole 31. The size is inscribed. Specifically, the diameter D1 of the base 3 is preferably 0.1 to 0.5 mm smaller than the inner diameter of the disc center hole 31.

  The diameter D2 of the main body guide portion 2 is substantially the same as or slightly smaller than the diameter of the circular inner hole 11 of the ring-shaped label 10. When the main body guide portion 2 is passed through the circular inner hole 11, the diameter of the main body guide portion 2 is inscribed in the circular inner hole 11. Specifically, the diameter D2 of the main body guide portion 2 is set to be smaller by 0.1 to 0.5 mm than the diameter of the circular inner hole 11.

  The height H of the base portion 3 (the length from the bottom surface of the base portion to the bottom surface 2a of the main body guide portion 2) is preferably set to be equal to or less than the thickness of the disk 30 (see FIG. 1). When working with the disk 30 placed on the work table, the height H of the base 3 is kept below the thickness of the disk 30 so that the ring-shaped label can be used even when the base 30 is inserted into the central hole 31. The pasting device 1 is stabilized.

Next, as a reference example of the attaching method, an operation of issuing and attaching the ring-shaped RFID label 10 described with reference to FIG. 15 by the RFID label printer 100 shown in FIG. 16 will be described. Here, as an example, an operation of attaching the RFID label 10 protruding from the tip 132a of the turning plate 132 to the disk 30 in a state where more than half of the separator 8 is peeled as shown in FIG. Since the configuration and issuing operation of the RFID label printer 100 have been described above, detailed description thereof will not be repeated.

The pasting operation is performed as follows. The disk 30 is placed on the work table 40 shown in FIG. 3, and is allowed to stand as shown in FIG. Next, as shown in FIG. 5, the base portion 3 of the ring-shaped label attaching device 1 is inserted into the disc center hole 31. The main body bottom surface 2a of the main body guide portion 2 comes into contact with the surface of the disc 30, and the ring-shaped label attaching device 1 is positioned in a state where only the base portion 3 is loosely fitted in the disc center hole 31, and positioning is performed. In this state, all the centers of the disk 30, the base portion 3, and the main body guide portion 2 coincide.

Then, as shown in FIG. 16, the RFID label 10 protruding from the tip 132a of the turning plate 132 is picked with a finger, tweezers, or the like, and the head 4 of the ring-shaped label attaching device 1 as shown in FIGS. the covered, moves downward along the body guide section 2, Ru affixed to the disc 30 as shown in FIG. By this operation, the ring-shaped label 10 is attached to the disc 30 concentrically. When the attachment is completed, the ring-shaped label attaching device 1 is removed while being lifted upward as shown in FIG.

Thus, the affixing operator puts the ring-shaped label 10 on the ring-shaped label affixing device 1 fitted in the disc central hole 31 of the disc 30 and presses it along the main body guide portion 2 by a simple operation. It can be pasted to accurately center, and can execute pasting work to ensure operability and accuracy.

  If the height H of the base portion 3 (the length from the bottom surface of the base portion 3 to the bottom surface 2a of the main body guide portion 2) exceeds the thickness of the disc 30, the base portion 3 is left as it is from the bottom surface of the disc 30. It sticks out. In such a case, a space corresponding to the protruding base portion 3 may be provided, for example, by providing a hole or gap for escaping the base portion 3 at a position where the central hole 31 of the disk 30 of the work table 40 is located.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 10 to 13, a method of attaching a ring-shaped label of the present invention, bore debris 12 will be described when that paste the ring label 10 remaining. In the ring-shaped label 10 shown in FIG. 10, the medium hole residue 12 remains in the medium hole 11. The ring-shaped label 10 is half-cut from the adhesive paper 6 to the second adhesive layer 17 at the time of label processing, but the adhesive layer once cut because the medium hole residue 12 is not removed. 7 and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 17 are attached again and integrated, and when the ring-shaped label 10 is peeled off, even the medium hole residue 12 is peeled off together.

The ring-shaped label 10 with the inner hole residue 12 is also put on the head 4 of the ring-shaped label attaching device 1 as shown in FIG. Then, the medium hole residue 12 is separated from the ring-shaped label 10. As shown in FIG. 12, when the ring-shaped label 10 is moved downward along the main body guide portion 2, the medium hole residue 12 is left on the head 4, and only the ring-shaped label 10 can be attached to the disk 30. After pasting , the ring-shaped label pasting device 1 is removed as shown in FIG. 13, and the medium hole residue 12 is peeled off from the ring-shaped label pasting device 1. Since the head 4 is subjected to non-adhesion processing, the medium hole residue 12 can be easily peeled off.

  The material for the ring-shaped label attaching device 1 is arbitrary. Any substrate can be used, whether metal or plastic. For example, the main body guide portion may be used separately from metal such as iron and the head portion may be used from plastic.

  The method of the non-adhesion process of the head 4 or the main body guide part 4 is arbitrary. A release agent may be applied to the surface to form a release agent layer. For example, in addition to ultraviolet curable silicone, thermosetting silicone, solvent-type silicone, alkyl pendant polymer, a fluorine-based release agent is applied and formed. Knurling may be applied. In addition, the main body guide part 2 and the head part 4 may be made of a non-adhesive material such as polytetrafluoroethylene or may be formed only on the surface.

  The shape of the main body guide portion 2 has been described by taking a cylindrical shape as an example. However, the shape is arbitrary as long as the lowermost portion of the main body guide portion 2 is inscribed in the circular inner hole 11 of the ring-shaped label. For example, the cross-sectional shape may be a polygon such as a triangular prism, a quadrangular prism, or a pentagonal prism, or a polygonal pyramid or a cone such as a triangular pyramid, a quadrangular pyramid, or a pentagonal pyramid. Further, a polygonal frustum and a truncated cone such as a triangular frustum, a quadrangular frustum, and a pentagonal frustum may be used.

  The shape of the head 4 is also arbitrary. In the embodiment described above, a dome shape bulging outward is illustrated, but the shape is arbitrary. For example, in addition to a flat surface, the cross-sectional shape may be a polygon such as a triangular prism, a quadrangular prism, or a pentagonal prism, or a polygonal pyramid or a cone such as a triangular pyramid, a quadrangular pyramid, or a pentagonal pyramid. Further, a polygonal frustum and a truncated cone such as a triangular frustum, a quadrangular frustum, and a pentagonal frustum may be used.

  Although the example of the columnar shape as shown in FIG. 1 has been described with respect to the shape of the base portion 3, if the diameter D1 of the cross section at the main body bottom surface 2a (height) is set to a size inscribed in the disc center hole 31, The shape is arbitrary. For example, the cross-sectional shape may be a polygon such as a triangular prism, a quadrangular prism, or a pentagonal prism, or a polygonal pyramid or a cone such as a triangular pyramid, a quadrangular pyramid, or a pentagonal pyramid converged at the bottom. Further, a polygonal frustum and a truncated cone such as a triangular frustum, a quadrangular frustum, and a pentagonal frustum may be used.

  Heretofore, the description has been mainly given of the operation of issuing a ring-shaped RFID label with an RFID label printer and attaching it to a disk such as a DVD. For example, a ring-shaped seal attached to a rotating blade or grindstone such as a grinder It is also applicable to pasting.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Ring-shaped label sticking instrument 2 Main body guide part 2a Main body bottom face 3 Base part 4 Head 6 Label base material 7 1st adhesive layer 8 Separator 10 RFID label 11 Medium hole 12 Medium hole residue 15 Timing mark 16 Base group Material 17 Second adhesive layer 18 Annular antenna 19 Memory IC
22 RFID inlet 24 Image 30 Disc 31 Central hole 100 RFID label printer 131 Peeling means 132 Turning plate 132a Tip 133 Driving roller 134 Driven roller 135 Take-up shaft 137 Separator roll 151 Roll paper supply means 152 Case 154 Issue port 156 Guide roll 157 Paper sensor 158 Timing mark sensor 159 Built-in antenna 161 Printing means 162 Platen roller 163 Thermal head 164 Turning member 165 Supply shaft 166 Guide roll 167 Take-up shaft 168 Thermal transfer ribbon 169 Printed ribbon

Claims (3)

For information recording discs with a disc center hole,
A ring-shaped label having a circular center hole having a diameter larger than that of the center hole of the disk in the center and having a remaining hole in the center hole ,
A pasting method for pasting so that a disc center hole of the information recording disc and a circular center hole of a ring-shaped label are concentric ,
A cylindrical body guide portion inscribed in a circular center hole of the ring-shaped label, one end of which is a cylindrical base portion inscribed in the center hole of the disc, and the other end is an introduction portion of the ring-shaped label, the introduction portion The head of the sticking device has a shape in which the diameter converges while protruding outward, and at least the surface of the introduction part is subjected to non-adhesive treatment, and the center of both the main body guide part and the base part is coincident. Insert the base into the center hole of the information recording disc,
Cover the introduction part of the application tool with the ring-shaped label with the remaining medium-hole residue and separate the medium-hole residue, and move the ring-shaped label along the main body guide to place only the ring-shaped label on the information recording disc. pasting,
Next, a method for attaching a ring-shaped label, comprising the step of removing the attaching device from the information recording disk and removing the medium hole residue from the attaching device. 2. The ring label attaching method according to claim 1, wherein the length of the base portion does not exceed the thickness of the information recording disk. The ring-shaped label affixing method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the ring-shaped label has an RFID inlet capable of wirelessly writing and reading data.

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