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US 11,691,443 B2Granted
Control method of tape printing apparatus and tape printing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorShinsaku Kosuge
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Abstract
A control method of a tape printing apparatus the method including performing a blade closing operation using a half cutter in a state in which rotation of a platen roller is stopped and subsequently performing a blade opening operation, causing a discharge feeding section to operate in a period from after the half cutter starts the blade opening operation and until the platen roller starts rotating, and determining presence or absence of a tape in a discharge feeding section based on a detection signal output from a discharge sensor during an operation of the discharge feeding section.
Claims6
A control method of a tape printing apparatus which includes
- a print head which pinches a tape including a printing tape and a peeling tape bonded to the printing tape between the print head and a platen roller and performs printing on the printing tape, the platen roller being configured to rotate to feed the tape to the print head,
- a half cutter which includes a cutting blade and a blade receiving member provided between a tape discharge port from which the tape is discharged and the print head and performs a blade closing operation in which the cutting blade cuts into the blade receiving member to cut one of the printing tape and the peeling tape without cutting the other and a blade opening operation in which the cutting blade which performed the cutting separates from the blade receiving member,
- a discharge feeding section which is provided between the half cutter and the tape discharge port and feeds the tape toward the tape discharge port, the discharge feeding section being configured to rotate, while the platen roller is not rotating, to discharge portions of the tape that are miscut, a portion of the tape being miscut when both the printing tape and the peeling tape of the portion of the tape are cut by the half cutter and the portion is separated from the tape, and
- a discharge sensor which outputs different detection signals according to presence or absence of portions separated from the tape in the discharge feeding section, the control method comprising:
- performing the blade closing operation using the half cutter in a state in which the rotation of the platen roller is stopped and subsequently performing the blade opening operation;
- causing the discharge feeding section to rotate in a period from after the half cutter starts the blade opening operation when the rotation of the platen roller is stopped and before the platen roller starts rotating;
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- determining presence or absence of discharge portions of the tape that are separated from the tape and located between the half cutter and the tape discharge port in the discharge feeding section based on the detection signal output from the discharge sensor during the rotation of the discharge feeding section.
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A tape printing apparatus comprising:
- a print head which pinches a tape including a printing tape and a peeling tape bonded to the printing tape between the print head and a platen roller and performs printing on the printing tape, the platen roller being configured to rotate to feed the tape to the print head;
- a half cutter which includes a cutting blade and a blade receiving member provided between a tape discharge port from which the tape is discharged and the print head and performs a blade closing operation in which the cutting blade cuts into the blade receiving member to cut one of the printing tape and the peeling tape without cutting the other and a blade opening operation in which the cutting blade which performed the cutting separates from the blade receiving member;
- a discharge feeding section which is provided between the half cutter and the tape discharge port and feeds the tape toward the tape discharge port, the discharge feeding section being configured to rotate, while the platen roller is not rotating, to discharge portions of the tape that are miscut, a portion of the tape being miscut when both the printing tape and the peeling tape of the portion of the tape are cut by the half cutter and the portion is separated from the tape;
- a discharge sensor which outputs different detection signals according to presence or absence of portions separated from the tape in the discharge feeding section;
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- a control section, wherein the control section
- performs the blade closing operation using the half cutter in a state in which the rotation of the platen roller is stopped and subsequently causes the half cutter to perform the blade opening operation,
- causes the discharge feeding section to rotate in a period from after the half cutter starts the blade opening operation when the rotation of the platen roller is stopped and before the platen roller starts rotating, and
- determines presence or absence of discharge portions of the tape that are separated from the tape and located between the half cutter and the tape discharge port in the discharge feeding section based on the detection signal output from the discharge sensor during the rotation of the discharge feeding section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.