JPS60103766A - Additional information recorder - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain improvement in operation efficiency by writing in a card the additional information which is entered in an original, and by entering the additional information in a copying picture together with the original at the time of coping of the original by reading the contents of this card. CONSTITUTION:When an original information is copied, the added information such as the date is recorded as the original information. By operating the key of an operation panel 58, a CPU makes a card reader 30 read the contents which are recorded in the card. When the device 30 inputs the additional information to be entried in the original which read the card contents to the CPU, the CPU transfers this to a buffer RAM, and diaplays this on a liquid-crystal displaying part 26 which is installed near the original locating part through a driver. The original which is placed at the original locating part and the additional information which is displayed on the displaying part 26 are exposed, become an electrostatic picture, and are developed by being copied on a copying paper. Therefore, trouble where the additional information is written in the original is saved, and the operation efficiency is improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an additional information recording device, and more particularly to an additional information recording device capable of recording, for example, a date and the like together with a document image.

[Prior art]

Generally, in companies, etc., it is common practice to make multiple copies of one manuscript and distribute them to related departments, and it is not necessary to write on the copies the date and time of distribution, the source of distribution, the distribution destination, etc. Usually done.

The additional information to be written on the copy is as follows:
In addition to the date, time and distribution source mentioned above, ID number, direction information, and if you copied a clipping from a newspaper or magazine, write in which article the article was published in, or if there are multiple manuscripts. If the number of copies is multiple, it is customary to number them serially.

However, writing the various additional information mentioned above into each manuscript is a very complicated task, and
For example, when there are a plurality of manuscripts, filling in each manuscript has the disadvantage that it is not only a tedious task but also a nuisance.

In order to eliminate this drawback, conventional methods have been to install a printing device to print on the copied image, or to install a liquid crystal on the platen glass or document holding drum, and to display the content displayed on this liquid crystal in the copied image. However, those equipped with a printing device have the disadvantage of increasing the overall size, and those equipped with a liquid crystal on the platen glass or document carrying drum have the disadvantage of increasing the overall size. It has the disadvantage that it is very expensive, and in addition, in the case of any of the above methods, if there are multiple documents, additional information must be entered for each document using a key, etc., which is extremely expensive. This has the disadvantage that it is a complicated work.

[Purpose of the invention]

This invention eliminates the drawbacks of the conventional methods as described above, and by writing additional information to be written on a manuscript on a card, the card is read when copying the manuscript, and the additional information is copied together with the manuscript. It is an object of the present invention to provide an additional information recording device capable of eliminating the trouble of writing additional information on a manuscript one by one in the same way as writing it on an image.

[Structure of the invention]

In a Suka information recording device that records additional information such as a date when copying manuscript information, an additional information display section is disposed near a document placement section, and a card storing the additional information; The card reading means is configured to read and record the stored contents of the card.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Embodiments of the invention shown in the drawings will be described below.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic layout of an electrophotographic copying apparatus, in which an original glass stand 2 is placed on the upper surface of the main body 1, and the upper surface of the original glass stand 2 is open and covered. A possible platen cover 3 is provided.

An exposure lamp 4 is provided inside the upper part of the main body 1 to irradiate light onto the lower surface of the document glass table 2, and the light reflected from the document irradiated by the exposure lamp 4 is transmitted to the exposure section 7 via a group of reflectors 23. , and a lens group 24 movable in the horizontal direction (in the direction of the arrow), and a drum-shaped photosensitive drum 5 serving as an image carrier is rotatably provided in the center.
A charging device 6 facing the photosensitive drum 5 is provided near the top of the photosensitive drum 5, and an exposing section 7, a developing device 8, a transfer device 9, and a separating device 7 are provided in front of the charging device 6 in the rotational direction of the photosensitive drum 5. A static eliminator ζFil device IO1 and a cleaning device 12 are each disposed close to and opposite to the photosensitive drum 5.

A cassette case 13 is removably installed on one side of the lower part of the interior of the main body 1, and when the cassette case 13 is inserted, there is a feeder that comes into contact with the top surface of the uppermost sheet of the stack of sheets. A paper roller 14 is provided,
Then, between the vicinity of the paper feed roller 14 and the vicinity of the transfer device 9, the paper in the cassette case 13 is transferred to the transfer device 9.
f) A paper feed path 15 for Ift feeding is provided.

A portion of the guide plate constituting the paper feed path 15 is cut out, and a pair of upper and lower registration rollers 16 are disposed in the cutout portion.

A fixing device 19 is provided on the other side of the inner lower part of the main body 1, and a paper conveyance path 20 is provided between the fixing device 19 and a separation device 10 provided near the photosensitive drum 5. A paper discharge section 21 is provided on the opposite side of the conveyance path 2° of the fixing device, and a paper discharge tray 22 is provided outside of the paper discharge section 21.

A scale plate 25 is placed on the upper left end of the original glass stand 2 of the electrophotographic copying apparatus configured as described above, and a liquid crystal display is provided between the scale plate 25 and the original glass stand 2. A section 26 is provided so that an image displayed on the display section 26 can be copied.

The liquid crystal display section 26 is connected to a central processing unit (CPU) as shown in FIG. The apparatus 3o is constructed as shown in FIGS. 3-6.

That is, as shown in FIGS. 3 to 6, this card reading device 3o has a pair of rollers 3 on the inner upper surface of the main body 31.
2.33, and a conveyor belt 34 is stretched between both rollers 32.33.
One of the rollers 33 is connected to a drive source (not shown), and when the drive source is driven, the conveyor belt 34 is intermittently moved in the direction of the arrow.

The upper end of the inner central part of the main body 31 is connected to the conveyor belt 3.
Movable stoppers 35 and 36 are provided so as to be movable in the vertical direction at a predetermined distance from the surface of the movable stopper 3.
Card stacks 37 and 38 for storing cards on which information is stored are formed on the outside of each of the card stacks 37 and 36, and each card stack 37 and 38 includes a tray 39 that can be raised and lowered in the vertical direction by a drive member (not shown). Further, a card reading member 41 is provided between the movable stoppers 35 and 36 and facing the lower surface of the conveyor belt 34.

It should be noted that the transport heald 3 is smaller than the card reading member 41.
4 in the transport direction, and the movable stopper 3
A first detection member 42 is provided in front of the card reader 6, and a second detection member 43 is provided in the rear of the card reading portion 41 (as shown in the sixth figure).

When obtaining a copied image using the electrophotographic copying apparatus configured as described above, an original is first placed on the upper surface of the original glass stand 2. In this case, the edge of the document is brought into contact with the scale plate 25 to set the document at a proper placement position, and then the document is covered with the platen cover 3 and the operation panel 58 is operated.

This operation panel 58 is as shown in FIG.
When the number of copies is selected using the numeric keypad 70, the selected number is displayed on the set number of copies display LED 69. Also 68
is the auto mode key, and when pressed, the mechanism (APS) detects the original size and automatically determines which size paper to feed, and automatically determines the original density and adjusts the copy density. A mechanism (EE mechanism) for setting is operated, and a cassette selection key 66 and a density setting key 67 are provided for manually performing these settings.

Further, 65 is a variable magnification setting key for changing the size of a copy image relative to the original, 64 is a sorter selection key, and 63
72 is a copy start key, and 71 is a stop clear key.

Furthermore, a plurality of other keys are added to the operation panel 58, and these are a character key 59, a cent key 60,
They are a mode switching key 61 and a print key 62.

Therefore, if the copy start key 72 is turned on after turning on the numeric keypad 70 and the auto mode key 68, the copying operation is started, the photosensitive drum 5 starts rotating, and the charging device 6 is also started, and the photosensitive drum 5 Electrification is applied to the outer peripheral surface of the At the same time, the paper feed roller 14 also starts rotating, and the uppermost paper among the papers in the cassette case 13 is conveyed through the paper feed path 15, and when this paper reaches the registration roller 16, the micro It is detected by a detection member (not shown) such as a switch and stops at that position.

At the same time that the paper reaches the registration rollers 16, the exposure lamp 4 turns on and illuminates the lower surface of the original glass table 2, and the exposure optical system starts moving, forming an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the original image. It is formed on the circumferential surface of the photoreceptor drum 5.

Thereafter, as the photoreceptor drum 5 rotates, the electrostatic latent image is developed by a developing device 8 to become a toner image and positioned opposite to a transfer device 9.

On the other hand, the paper is conveyed through the paper feed path 15 by the activation of the registration roller 16 to a position facing the transfer device 9, so that the toner image on the outer peripheral surface of the photoreceptor drum 5 is transferred to the paper by the transfer device 9. After being separated by the separation device 10, the paper is conveyed to the fixing device 19 via the conveyance path 20, where it is fixed and discharged onto the paper discharge tray 22.

Further, the photoreceptor drum 5 is cleaned by the static eliminator 11 and the cleaning device 12, and one stroke is completed.
And the charging device 6 stops operating.

The above operation is then performed for a set number of sheets.

In an electrophotographic copying apparatus that operates as described above, writing information on a copied image using a card storing various additional information is performed as follows.

First, when the print key 62 of the operation panel 58 is pressed, the central processing unit (CPU) enters a state in which additional information is written on a normal copy image, that is, a state in which the stored contents of the card are read.

As a result, a reduction mode is entered in order to write additional information on a part of the copy image, and in this case, the appropriate reduction ratio is about 2%, and the magnification is xO, 9B.

With this magnification, the size will not change much from the original manuscript, and moreover, you will have enough space to write additional information.

As an example of this reduction, if a 2% reduction is included in the general magnification, ×1.0 becomes Xo, 98, and Xo, 81 becomes ×0°7.
9 has xO, 71 has xo, 69 has Xl, 24 has Xl,
22. The method of moving the lens group 24 to this reduction ratio uses a pulse motor, and a home position sensor (for example, ×1.0
), and by controlling the motor with the number of pulses from the motor, the lens group can be moved to any desired magnification position.

Then, the card reading device N30 inputs the signal from reading the card, in other words, the information to be written on the manuscript, to the central processing unit (CPLI) as shown in FIG. The contents are transferred to the buffer RAM and displayed on the liquid crystal display section via the driver.

Furthermore, when the card is removed, the contents of the buffer RAM are cleared and the display on the liquid crystal display section disappears, thereby saving the effort of writing additional information on each document. In the case of a photoelectric card, when the card is inserted, the contents registered in the RAM specified by the card are transferred to the knob RAM and displayed on the liquid crystal display, and the card is If you remove it, the contents of the 7th hour RAM will be cleared in the same way as above.

Therefore, when a plurality of cards with different addresses stored in the card reading device 30 are inserted into the card reading device 30, when the card reading device 30 is inactive, the tray 39, 40 is in the lowest position, and the movable stopper 35, 36 is raised. in position. Then, insert the required number of cards 54 into the tray 3.
9 and then close the door 49. Then, both the trays 39 and 40 are raised by driving members (not shown), and the top surface of the uppermost card placed on the top surface of one tray 39 touches the bottom surface of the conveyor belt 34. "contact" is detected by a detection unit @ (not shown), the drive member stops, and the tray 39 stops at that position.
Stop at a distance of one card from the bottom of the .

Next, when the copy start key 72 is pressed after setting the number of copies using the numeric keypad 70 in the same way as when the print key 62 is not pressed as described above, the card reading device 30 is first moved to the movable stopper 35 by a drive device (not shown). is lowered, and at the same time, the conveyor belt 34 is activated by the drive member to transport the topmost card on the tray 39 by 1B. Further, since the movable stopper 36 is in a protruding position, the card conveyed by the conveyance heald 34 comes into contact with the movable stopper 36, and at the same time, the detection member 42 detects that the card has reached the upper part of the card reading member 41. The transport heald 34 stops and the movable stopper 35 rises to prevent the next card from being transported. This detection member 42 is constituted by, for example, a photoelectric reading element, and can detect the white portion provided at the edge of the card to confirm the presence of the card. When the memory contents of the card are read into the central processing unit (CPU) by the reading member 41, the memory contents of the card are displayed on the liquid crystal display section 26 via the driver. In order to simplify the explanation, it is assumed below that the liquid crystal display section is of a reflective type. As a result, the image displayed on the liquid crystal display section 26 located between the document glass table 2 and the scale plate 25 of the electrophotographic copying device is exposed by the exposure section 7 together with the document image, and these images are exposed on the surface of the photoreceptor drum 50. , and an electrostatic latent image is formed thereon in accordance with the contents of the image displayed on the liquid crystal display section and the original image. Therefore, the stored contents of the card will be written on the copied image.

When the processing of the first card is completed, the movable stopper 36 is lowered, the conveyor belt 34 is moved by the drive member, the first card is moved to the upper part of the tray 40, and is ejected from the upper part of the reading section JfA41. Ru.

When this ejection is detected by a detection member (not shown), the tray 39 is raised by the thickness of one card, and
The tray 40 is moved down by the thickness of one card, and the 22nd card is moved to the top of the reading member 41 by the conveyor belt 34 in the same manner as above, and the stored contents of this card are written on the second copy image. Ru.

When the conveyor belt 34 completes feeding the last card, the tray 39 descends to its initial state, that is, to its lower limit, and when the ejection of the last card is completed, the tray 40 also descends to its lower limit.

Further, when using only one card instead of using multiple cards as described above, the door 49 of the card reading device 30 is provided with an insertion slot 55, so insert the card into this slot 55. Then, the card is located on the upper surface of the reading member 41, and since the detection member 43 is provided on the back side in the insertion direction, after the card is read, the conveyor belt 34 is moved by the drive member to transfer the card to the tray. 40.

That is, the reading device 30 operates as shown in the flowchart shown in FIG.

Each driving member of the reading device 30 is controlled by a central processing unit (CPU).

Further, in the embodiment described above, when the print key 62 is pressed, the copy image is automatically reduced to provide a space for writing additional information, and when the print key is pressed, the registration roller 16 is moved faster. By controlling the document to advance the paper feeding timing and write the contents on the liquid crystal display section 26, the original information is not erased (=I additional information is recorded).

Furthermore, the liquid crystal display section can display the stored contents of the card in 7 segments or in a dot matrix, and the position of the liquid crystal display section can be at the center or both ends of the scale plate. It may be in any position.

□ Furthermore, it goes without saying that the liquid crystal display section does not need to be provided at one location.

Further, the liquid crystal display section may be of a transmission type and an exposure section may be provided on the back surface, and it goes without saying that an ECD (electrochromic display) or the like may be used instead of the liquid crystal display section.

〔Effect of the invention〕

By configuring the invention as described above, the content stored on the card can be displayed as additional information on the copied image by simply inserting the card, thereby eliminating the hassle of inputting information each time using keys etc. It has excellent effects such as being able to significantly improve work efficiency.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an electrophotographic copying device, FIG. 2 is a block diagram, and FIGS. 3 to 6 are schematic diagrams of a card reading device.
Fig. 3 is a schematic front view, Fig. 4 is a partially covered view, Fig. 5 is a view showing the door closed, and Fig. 6 is the Vl- of Fig. 3.
A view taken along the Vl line, FIG. 7 is a view showing the operation panel,
FIG. 8 is a flow chart of the operation of the card reading device. 1--One body 2--------Original glass stand 3--
--------Platen cover 4-------1 Exposure lamp 5----1 Photosensitive drum 6--Charging device ? ---1.Exposure section 8--
Developing device 9-----1 Transfer device 10・-1----
-Separation device 11----Static eliminator 12--Cleaning device i a----One-sent case l t--Paper feed roller 15--Paper pick-up path]
6--------Registration roller 19--Fixed fixing device 20--Conveyance path 21--
・-Paper output section 22----One paper output tray 25------
・-Scale plate 26----Liquid crystal display section 30----
Card reading device 31--Main body 32.33--Roller 34-
-------One conveyor belt 35.36-----Movable station I/back 37.38-----Card stack 39.40-----) Ray 41--Card reading member 42.43-・−・Detection member 58−−−−One operation panel 59−−−−−−Character input key 60−−−−−−−Set key 61−−−−Mode switching key 62−−−・Print key 63 -11---Automatic document feed mechanism operation key 6, t-
---- Sorter selection key 65 -111~ - Magnification setting key 66 - - Cassette setting key 67 - Density setting key 68 - - Auto mode key 69 - -----General fixed number of sheets display LED 70--1--Numeric keypad 71----Stop clear key 72--1--
--Coby start key Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 6 Figure 49 4 and Tsutsu

Claims (1)

[Claims] In an additional information recording device for recording additional information such as a date when copying original information, an additional information display section is disposed near a document placement section, and a card storing additional information; An additional information recording device comprising: reading means for the card, the reading means reading and recording the stored contents of the card.