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US 4,698,646 AGranted
Thermal transfer recording system
AssigneeNippon Kogaku K. K.
InventorsTsuyoshi Satoh, Tsutomu Mitsuishi, Kenji Toyoda, Kaoru Naito, Makoto Ogawa, Hiroshi Sato
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Abstract
A thermal transfer recording system comprising a supply cartridge including a case and an image forming sheet and an ink sheet housed in the case, taking-out means for taking out the image forming sheet and the ink sheet from the supply cartridge and print means including a thermal head for printing on the taken-out image forming sheet by the taken-out ink sheet.
Claims22
A thermal transfer recording system comprising:
- a housing;
- a supply cartridge removably mounted in said housing and including an image forming sheet, an ink sheet and a case member containing therein said image forming sheet and said ink sheet, said case member having opening means through which said image forming sheet and said ink sheet are passed;
- means for taking-out said image forming sheet and said ink sheet from said case member through said opening means;
- print means having a thermal head for printing on said image forming sheet taken-out from said case member by using said ink sheet taken-out from said case member;
- and
- means for feeding said ink sheet used by said print means into said case member through said opening means.
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A thermal transfer recording system comprising:
- a housing;
- a supply cartridge removably mounted in said housing and including a thermal transfer recording medium and a case member containing therein said recording medium, said case member having opening means through which said recording medium is passed;
- said recording medium including a plurality of image forming sheets and an ink sheet member, said ink sheet member having a base sheet and corresponding plural sets of ink zones sequentially arranged in a linear direction on said base sheet;
- means for taking-out said recording medium through said opening means;
- print means having a thermal head for printing on said image forming sheet taken-out from said case member by using said ink sheet member taken-out from said case member;
- and
- means for feeding said ink sheet member used by said print means into said case member through said opening means.
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A sheet supply cartridge for use in a thermal transfer recorder having a thermal head, comprising:
- a housing having a wall member dividing the housing into first and second spaces, and first and second openings connected to said first and second spaces respectively;
- a recording medium provided in said first space and including a plurality of sheet units;
- each of said sheet units comprising a base sheet formed in a strip shape elongated in a linear direction, a plurality of ink regions having thermo-sensitive inks applied on said base sheet at predetermined intervals longitudinally of said base sheet, and an image forming sheet disposed on said base sheet at a position covering one of said ink regions;
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- one end portion of the base sheet of each sheet unit being connected with another sheet unit, and each base sheet having a line of weakness crossing said linear direction adjacent said one end portion.
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A sheet supply cartridge for use in a thermal transfer recorder having a thermal head, comprising:
- a housing;
- and
- a recording medium provided in said housing and including a plurality of image forming sheets and an ink sheet member;
- said ink sheet member comprising a base sheet formed in a strip shape elongated in a linear direction, plural sets of ink areas applied on said base sheet at predetermined intervals longitudinally of said base sheet, and margin areas provided at the intervals of said sets of ink areas, respectively, said ink areas having thermo-sensitive inks applied on said base sheet in a direction longitudinally of said base sheet, and each of said ink areas and said margin areas having substantially the same size as one of said image forming sheets.
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A thermal transfer recording medium comprising:
- a base sheet formed in a strip shape elongated in a linear direction;
- a plurality of ink regions having thermo-sensitive inks applied on said base sheet at predetermined intervals longitudinally of said base sheet;
- and
- an image forming sheet disposed on said base sheet at a position covering one of said ink regions;
- said base sheet having a line of weakness crossing said linear direction adjacent one end portion of the base sheet.
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A sheet supply cartridge for use in a thermal transfer recorder having a thermal head, comprising:
- a housing having a space and an opening connected to said space;
- a recording medium provided in said space and including a plurality of sheet units;
- each of said sheet units comprising a base sheet formed in a strip shape elongated in a linear direction, a plurality of ink regions having thermo-sensitive inks applied on said base sheet at predetermined intervals longitudinally of said base sheet, and an image forming sheet disposed on said base sheet;
- and
- one end portion of the base sheet of each sheet unit being connected with another sheet unit, and each base sheet having a line of weakness crossing said linear direction adjacent said one end portion.
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A thermal transfer recording medium comprising:
- a base sheet formed in a strip shape elongated in a linear direction;
- a plurality of ink regions having thermo-sensitive inks applied on said base sheet at predetermined intervals longitudinally of said base sheet;
- and
- an image forming sheet disposed on said base sheet;
- said base sheet having a line of weakness crossing said linear direction adjacent one end portion of the base sheet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.