JPS63309484A - Portable-type printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enhance versatility, operability and portability of a portable-type printer, by providing a roll-containing part for containing a roll of a film ribbon, and a payout mechanism for paying out the film ribbon from the roll to a recording head when fitted to a casing. CONSTITUTION:A film ribbon 66 is drawn out from a roll 60 of the film ribbon, and is loaded in a film guide part 68. Pawls 64 of a ribbon cassette 20 and the roll 60 protruding from the cassette 20 are inserted into a recessed part 54 of a casing 18, whereby the cassette 20 is fitted to the casing 18. A portable- type transferring device 10 assembled supplies the film ribbon 66, which is drawn out through the guide part 68 of the cassette 20, to a head surface 74 of a thermal head 40 provided at a lower end part of the casing 18, end recording on a paper 12 is conducted by the film ribbon 66 itself or through the film ribbon 66.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application 1] The present invention relates to a portable printing machine having a copying/transfer function.

[Prior art 1] Conventionally, as a portable printing machine, for example,
As disclosed in Publication No. 63342M, a printing machine that houses an unwinding reel and a take-up reel in a housing and prints on paper via a thermal ribbon wound around the reel, A device that houses a thermal paper roll in a housing and prints on the thermal paper, or JP-A-56-6363
As disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 5, a thermal head housed in a housing performs printing on a sheet of thermal paper.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, the conventional portable printing machines had the following problems.

■ By accommodating thermal ribbons, thermal paper, etc. in the casing, the size of the casing itself increases, reducing portability.

■ In the former technology, which houses the linear ribbon in the housing,
If the ribbon is not run straight, wrinkles may occur in the ribbon, and these wrinkles may extend to the inside of the casing.
In this case, it may not be possible to correct the wrinkles without disassembling the casing.

■ The latter technology, in which only the thermal head is housed in the housing, always requires thermal paper, reducing portability.

An object of the present invention is to improve the versatility, operability, and portability of a portable printing machine by solving the above problems.

[Means for Solving the Problems] As a means for achieving the above object, the portable printing machine of the present invention includes: a recording head that can be exposed from a housing; and a ribbon cassette that is detachably attached to the housing; A portable printing machine that performs printing using the recording head in synchronization with traveling, the ribbon cassette having a roll storage section for storing film ribbon rolls such as thermal ribbon and thermal paper, and when attached to a housing, The gist is that the recording head includes a feeding mechanism that supplies the film ribbon from the film ribbon roll.

The recording head includes, for example, a thermal head, a current-carrying head,
These are dot impact heads and ink jet heads.

The film ribbon is, for example, a thermal ribbon or thermal paper when a thermal head is used as a recording head, and an electrified thermal ribbon or electrified thermal paper when an energized head is used, and a dot. When an impact head is used, it is an ink ribbon or carbon paper, and when an ink jet head is used, it is plain paper.

The roll storage section of the ribbon cassette rotatably stores, for example, a film ribbon roll, and necessarily stores the entire film ribbon roll or a portion of the film ribbon roll.

The ribbon cassette feeding mechanism guides the film ribbon pulled out from the film ribbon roll to the recording head, and has a function, for example, to adjust the force for pulling out the film ribbon from the ribbon cassette, and to feed the film in synchronization with the movement. It has functions such as supplying ribbons.

[Function] The portable printing machine of the present invention performs printing in synchronization with travel using only a casing having an exposed recording head, or a ribbon cassette having a roll accommodating section and a feeding mechanism in the casing. is attached, and recording is performed, for example, directly on the film ribbon or via the film ribbon in synchronization with the travel.

Embodiment 1 An embodiment in which a portable printing machine of the present invention is applied to a portable transfer machine 10 having a copying function will be described based on the drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the portable transfer device [10] of this embodiment includes a travel sensor unit 13 that outputs a travel signal synchronized with the travel of the paper 12 in the arrow YA force direction; A housing 18 includes an image reading unit 14 for reading characters, patterns, etc., a recording unit 16 for outputting and recording the read images, and a removable ribbon cassette 20 attached to the housing 18.
It is composed of.

A running sensor unit 13 that outputs a running signal is provided at the lower part of the housing 18, and is connected to a driving wheel 22 which is rotationally driven by driving the housing 18 in the direction of arrow YA force, and is connected to the driving wheel 22 by a belt 24. The slit plate 2 rotates in one direction.
6. “ON” based on the rotational state of the slit plate 26
It is composed of a photointerrupter 27 and the like that outputs an "off" signal (travel signal @). Note that a rubber belt, a resin belt, an O-ring, or the like is used as the belt 24 to connect the drive wheel 22 and the slit plate 26.

Also, a gear or the like may be used instead of the belt 24.

The image reading unit 14 reads the image information on the paper 12 in synchronization with the running based on the running signal from the running sensor unit 13. It operates when pressed to the side) and has the following configuration. That is, the second
As shown in the figure, a light emitting diode 32 emits image reading light to an image reading aperture 30 at the lower end of the housing 18 in synchronization with a running signal, and a light emitting diode 32 emits image reading light to an image reading aperture 30 at the lower end of the housing 18. It is composed of a lens 34 that condenses light, a CCD 36 that sequentially converts an optical image formed by the lens 34 into an electric signal (image signal), and a storage section (not shown) that stores the image signal from the CCD 36.

The recording unit 16 that records the image data stored in the storage unit by the image reading unit 14 on paper or the like is activated when the operation switch 28 is pressed to the print side (P side), A recording signal output unit (not shown) sequentially reads image data based on a running signal (a signal output from the running sensor unit 13) and converts it into a recording signal, and a recording signal from the recording signal output unit is added, and the above-mentioned When the operation switch 28 is pushed to the P side, the casing 1
The recording head 8 is composed of a thermal head 40 as a recording head that is pushed down so that the head surface protrudes from the lower end of the recording head 8.

Therefore, the casing 18 having the above configuration has the function of reading and storing image information on the paper 12 in synchronization with the traveling;
It has a function of reproducing the stored image and recording it, that is, printing it on a thermal paper sheet, a thermal paper notebook, a thermal roll paper, etc.

Next, the ribbon cassette 20, which can be attached to and detached from the housing 18, will be explained. Incidentally, a recess 54 is formed in the side wall of the housing 18 on the side in the advancing direction, in order to fit the ribbon cassette 20 therein.

The ribbon cassette 20, which is separate from the housing 18, includes a roll housing part 62 that rotatably stores the film ribbon roll 60 with a part of the roll 60 protruding, and a recessed part of the housing 18 to store the ribbon cassette 20. 54 and a film guide section 68 as a feeding mechanism that guides the film ribbon 66 pulled out from the film ribbon roll 60 to the lower end of the housing 18 when attached to the housing 18. The film guide section 68 is two plate-shaped members integrally formed with the main body of the ribbon cassette 20 with an interval slightly wider than the width of the film ribbon 66.

With the above configuration, the ribbon cassette 20 is attached to the housing 18 in the following procedure, as shown in FIG. 3, and the film ribbon 66 is supplied to the lower end of the housing 18.

■ Film ribbon roll 60 to film ribbon 66
is pulled out and loaded into the film guide section 68.

(2) The ribbon cassette 20 is taken out into the housing 18 by inserting the claw 64 of the ribbon cassette 20 and the film ribbon roll 60 protruding from the ribbon cassette 20 into the recess 54 of the housing 18.

Through the above procedure, as shown in FIG. The film ribbon 66 itself (thermal paper in this case) is supplied to the head surface 74 of the thermal head 40,
Alternatively, recording is performed on the paper 12 via the film ribbon 66 (thermal ribbon here).

The portable transfer machine 10 described above can be used as shown below.

■ A loose-leaf notebook 80 made of thermal paper can be created without attaching the ribbon cassette 20 to the housing 18, as shown in FIG. 4, using only the housing 18. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 5, an image read in advance is directly copied onto a roll 82 of thermal paper or the like.

(2) A ribbon cassette 20 containing a roll of thermal paper as a film ribbon roll 60 is attached to the casing 18, and while the thermal paper is pulled out from the ribbon cassette 20, copies are made onto the thermal paper.

■ As shown in FIG. 6, attach the ribbon cassette 208 containing the thermal ribbon 84 to the housing 18, pull out the end of the thermal ribbon 84 from the ribbon cassette 20, and hold the end of the thermal ribbon 84 by hand. , and is transferred onto plain paper 86 (for example, a letter, postcard, notebook) via the thermal ribbon 64.

Therefore, the portable transfer 110 of this embodiment has extremely excellent effects as shown below.

(1) It can be copied or transferred onto a notebook made of thermal paper or a notebook made of plain paper. In other words, extremely high versatility can be obtained since copying and transfer can be performed depending on the recording medium.

(II) Extremely high portability can be obtained because the housing 18 alone or the housing 18 and the ribbon cassette 20 can be carried separately.

(In> Even if wrinkles occur in the film ribbon 66, the ribbon cassette 20 can be removed from the housing 18 and the correction can be made promptly, resulting in extremely high maintainability.

(IV) Since the film ribbon roll 60 protruding from the ribbon cassette 20 is accommodated in the housing 18,
By accommodating a roll 60 with a large diameter in a thin ribbon cassette 20, the overall thickness when the ribbon cassette 20 is attached to a housing 18 can be reduced. Therefore, portability and operability are improved. In addition, the roll 60 has a large diameter compared to the thickness.
It is possible to lengthen the maintenance cycle (roll replacement cycle) by using

(V) Film guide section 68 of ribbon cassette 20
Since the film ribbon 66 is guided by the film ribbon 66, the film ribbon 66 is prevented from shifting laterally.

Therefore, maintainability and print quality are improved.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, but can be implemented in various forms without changing the gist thereof, and can be applied to, for example, devices for printing, transferring, copying, etc.

[Effects of the Invention] The portable printing machine of the present invention has extremely excellent effects in that versatility, portability, and maintainability are all improved.

That is, by performing printing with only the casing or by attaching a ribbon cassette to the casing, it is possible to print on paper or the like, for example, directly on thermal paper as a film ribbon or via four normal ribbons as a film ribbon. Furthermore, it is possible to directly print on, for example, a notebook made of thermal paper without using a film ribbon. Therefore, versatility is improved.

Only the casing that does not contain a film ribbon can be carried by separating the casing and the ribbon cassette or by attaching the ribbon cassette to the casing. Therefore, the casing can be made smaller to improve portability and operability. Furthermore, since the housing and the ribbon cassette are separated, wrinkles, for example, in the film ribbon can be easily corrected. Therefore, maintainability is improved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 3 are block diagrams of a portable transfer machine according to an embodiment of the present invention to which the portable printing machine is applied, and FIGS. 4 to 6 are diagrams for explaining the use of the embodiment. 10... Portable transfer machine 18... Housing 20... Ribbon cassette 54... Concavity 60... Film ribbon roll 66... Film ribbon

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A portable printing machine comprising a recording head that can be exposed from a housing and a ribbon cassette that can be attached to and detached from the housing, and that prints using the recording head in synchronization with travel, comprising: The ribbon cassette includes a roll storage section that stores a film ribbon roll such as a thermal ribbon or thermal paper, and a feeding mechanism that supplies the film ribbon from the film ribbon roll to the recording head when attached to the housing. Portable printing machine.