JPH09314953A - Printer with herd disk drive - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To preclude an HDD from being broken during the period of detaching a paper feeding cassette or the like by disposing a pickup arm within the HDD and paper feeding cassette in a manner permitting them to be coincided with each other in its longitudinal direction and detaching direction. SOLUTION: The printer main body 7 is fixed with an HD(hard disk) 1, a pickup 2 for reading out data and writing in data, and an HDD(hard disk drive unit main body 4 including a pickup arm 3 to be scanned in the radial direction. Recording paper is mounted within a paper cassette 5 and inserted in the A direction of a cassette insertion hole 8 of the printer main body 7. The printer 9 is likely to be applied with impacts in the direction A as the paper feeding cassette is mounted roughly with the result that the HDD unit is also to be applied with impacts. However, a coincidence between the longitudinal direction of the pickup arm 3 and the direction of impacts minimizes influences to the HDD unit main body 4.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printer with a hard disk drive (hereinafter referred to as HDD) having a high-performance and large-capacity memory used on, for example, a network.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG. 1B, which is a perspective view showing a configuration example of an HDD unit attached to a general printer with an HDD to be described later, a hard disk (hereinafter referred to as HD) which is a medium for recording data. ) 1, rotating HD
A HDD unit main body 4 including a pickup 2 for reading and writing data to and a pickup arm 3 for supporting the pickup 2 and scanning it in the radial direction is attached to a print main body 7.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the structure of an example of a conventional printer with HDD.

As shown in FIG. 4, an HDD unit 4 is attached to a printer body 7, and a paper feed cassette 5 for stacking recording sheets is inserted from a cassette insertion port 8 of the printer body 7. In this example, the longitudinal direction of the pickup arm 3 in the HDD and the attachment / detachment direction A of the paper feed cassette 5 form a right angle, so
When the cassette is loaded into the cassette insertion opening 8 violently, an inertial force is applied to the pickup arm 3 in the direction of A, and the pickup arm 3 may bend and be damaged.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the second conventional example.

In this example, the direction in which the paper feed cassette 5 is attached and detached is HD.
In the case of being perpendicular to l, if the operator roughly loads the paper feed cassette 5 into the cassette insertion opening 8, not only the pickup arm 3 but also HDl may be damaged.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the third conventional example.

In this example, the printer 9 is a serial printer, and the carriage 6 carrying the print head reciprocally scans in the direction B to perform printing. In this example, since the scanning direction B of the carriage 6 and the longitudinal direction of the pickup arm 3 in the HDD 4 do not match, the HDD 4 is used for reading and writing data when a large inertial force acts such as when the carriage 6 is folded back. You may get an error if you are accessing Especially when the carriage is heavy, such as when there are a plurality of print heads, an error is likely to occur.

[0009]

However, as described in the section of the prior art, in order to prevent an error when accessing the HDD for reading or writing data, access to the HDD must be restricted. This is particularly disadvantageous when shared by a plurality of users on the network, because the throughput as a device is reduced.

When used by a plurality of users, the paper cassette is not always carefully attached and detached.
There is a problem that the HDD is broken and the printer itself cannot be used, which causes trouble.

It is an object of a first invention of the present application to provide a printer having a structure in which there is no fear that the HDD will be damaged during an operation such as attachment / detachment of a paper feed cassette.

A second object of the invention of the present application is that, when the printer is a serial printer, an H level for reading and writing regardless of the movement of the carriage.
By making sure that the access to the DD can be made without error, there is no need to limit the access to the HDD,
Therefore, it is to provide a printer having a structure that provides the maximum throughput.

[0013]

In order to achieve the above object, a first invention of the present application is, in a printer having a paper feed cassette and an HDD, a longitudinal direction of a pickup arm in the HDD and a detaching direction of the paper feed cassette. The HDD is attached to the printer main body so that the above items substantially match.

In a second aspect of the present invention, the printer is a serial printer, and the carriage scanning direction is
The HDD is attached to the printer main body so that the longitudinal direction of the pickup arm in the HDD and the attachment / detachment direction of the paper feed cassette are substantially the same.

[0015]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1A is a schematic view showing the connection of a general printer with HDD to a network, and FIG.
2A is a perspective view showing the configuration of an HDD unit attached to the printer of FIG. 2A, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the configuration of an embodiment of the printer with HDD of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1A, a printer 9 with an HDD and personal computers (hereinafter referred to as PCs) 11 and 12 are connected to a network, and a server 1
0 controls this network.
When the PCll, 12 tries to execute printing, the print data is sent to the server 10 via the network. After that, the server 10 sends the print data to the printer 9 via the network, and the printer 9 sends the print data to the HDD.
Store in and start printing. Even if the recording paper runs out during printing, the print data is stored in the HDD. Therefore, as long as the recording paper is replenished, the print data can be read from the HDD without resending the print data from the server 10. This allows the printer 9 to resume printing.

Similar to the above-mentioned conventional example, as shown in FIG. 1B, HD1, which is a medium for recording data, and H, which rotates
A HDD unit body 4 including a pickup 2 for reading and writing data to and from D1, and a pickup arm 3 for supporting the pickup 2 and for scanning in the radial direction is attached to a print body 7.

According to the configuration of the printer with HDD shown schematically in FIG. 2, the recording paper is loaded into the paper feed cassette 5 and inserted into the cassette insertion port 8 of the printer body 7 in the direction A. Since this printer 9 is used by an unspecified user if it is shared on the network, it is conceivable that the paper feed cassette 5 is loaded roughly. At that time, an impact in the direction A is applied to the printer body 7, and the HDD unit 4, which is a precision machine, is also impacted. However, in this embodiment, the pickup arm 3
Since the longitudinal direction of the HDD and the direction of impact A match, the HDD
The influence on the unit 4 can be minimized.

Next, the second embodiment will be described.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the second embodiment.

In this example, the printer with HDD is a serial printer. A carriage 6 having a print head reciprocally scans in the direction of B in the figure to print on a recording paper. The print head may be a thermal head, an inkjet head or a wire dot head. The HDD unit 4 is also affected by the maximum inertial force generated when the carriage 6 is folded back at both ends of the scanning width. If the carriage 6 is light, write to the HD1,
Although an error may occur in the reading operation, the longitudinal direction of the pickup arm 3 and the scanning direction B of the carriage 6
Since the cassette attachment / detachment direction A matches, the influence can be minimized, and in some cases, the HDD unit 4 can be accessed for writing and reading even when the carriage 6 is folded back at both ends of the scanning width. become,
Throughput as the printer 9 is improved. If the carriage 6 is heavy, the access to the HDD unit 4 such as writing and reading is prohibited only when the carriage 6 is folded back at both ends of the scanning width.
The failure of the unit 4 can be prevented.

[0023]

As described above, according to the first invention of the present application, by mounting the pickup arm in the HDD so that the longitudinal direction of the pickup arm and the mounting / dismounting direction of the sheet feeding cassette are aligned with each other, the mounting / dismounting of the sheet feeding cassette is performed. It is possible to eliminate the risk of the HDD being damaged during such operations as described above. In the second aspect of the invention, when the printer is a serial printer, the carriage scanning direction is also made to coincide with those directions, so that the carriage movement can be prevented. Read / write access to the HDD without error,
Therefore, there is an effect that it is possible to provide a printer with an HDD that does not require access restriction to the printer and can therefore provide maximum throughput.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1A is a schematic view showing the connection of a general printer with an HDD to a network, and FIG. 1B is a perspective view showing the configuration of an HDD unit attached to the printer in FIG.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the configuration of an embodiment of a printer with HDD of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a configuration of a second exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the configuration of an example of a conventional printer with HDD.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a configuration of a second conventional example.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a configuration of a third conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Hard Disk 2 Pickup 3 Pickup Arm 4 Hard Disk Drive Unit 5 Paper Feed Cassette 6 Carriage 7 Printer Body 8 Cassette Insertion Port 9 Printer 10 Server 11, 12 Personal Computer A Cassette Insertion Direction B Carriage Scanning Direction

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. In a printer having a paper feed cassette and a hard disk drive, the hard disk drive is attached to the printer body such that the longitudinal direction of the pickup arm in the hard disk drive and the attaching / detaching direction of the paper feed cassette are substantially aligned. Characteristic printer with hard disk drive. 2. The hard disk drive is attached to the printer body such that the printer is a serial printer and the carriage scanning direction substantially coincides with the longitudinal direction of the pickup arm in the hard disk drive and the attaching / detaching direction of the paper feed cassette. A printer with a hard disk drive according to claim 1.