US 5,066,960 AGranted

Thermal printing head

AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKatsuyasu Deguchi, Takatoshi Mizoguchi, Takayuki Taminaga, Akiyoshi Fujii

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Abstract

A thermal printing head includes an insulating substrate formed of a heat resisting cloth impregnated with a heat resisting resin. A plurality of heating elements of an electrically resistive material are linearly disposed on the substrate. A shield layer is interposed between the heating elements and the substrate for preventing the substrate from exerting chemical influence on the heating elements. A plurality of conduction controlling devices mounted on the substrate is included for controlling electric conduction of the heating elements corresponding to print data. A common electrode is formed on the substrate for commonly connecting an end of each of the heating elements. A discrete electrode is formed on the substrate for connecting the other end of each of the heating elements to the conduction controlling device. Finally, metal layer is interposed between the heating elements and the electrodes for connecting both of them in an ohmic contact.

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Dependent claims

A thermal printing head, comprising:

an insulating substrate formed of a heat resisting cloth impregnated with a heat resisting resin;
a plurality of heating elements of an electrically resistive material linearly disposed on said substrate including 2n elements numbered from 1 to 2n in linear arrangement (n being a natural number);
a shield layer interposed between said plurality of heating elements and said insulating substrate for preventing said insulating substrate from exerting chemical influence on said plurality of heating elements;
conduction controlling means, mounted on said insulating substrate, for controlling electric conduction of said plurality of heating elements corresponding to printing of data;
a common electrode formed on said insulating substrate for commonly connecting an end of each of said plurality of heating elements, wherein said common electrode is separated into first and second common electrodes and;
a plurality of discrete electrodes formed on said substrate, said plurality of discrete electrodes for connecting the other end of each of said plurality of heating elements to said conduction controlling means;
and
a metal layer interposed between said plurality of heating elements and said plurality of discrete electrodes for connection in a ohmic contact,
said plurality of heating elements being divided into a first block of heating elements numbered from 1 to n and a second block of heating elements numbered from n+1 to 2n,
one end of each of said plurality of heating elements in the first block being connected to said first common electrode, and one end of each of said plurality of elements in the second block being connected to said second common electrode,
a pair of the other ends of said elements numbered 1 and 2n, elements numbered 2 and 2,-1, . . . , elements numbered i and 2n+1-i (i being a natural number, 1<i<n . . . ), elements numbered n and n+1 being connected to said conduction controlling means.

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A thermal printing apparatus comprising:

a heat resisting insulating substrate including a heat resisting cloth impregnated with a heat resisting resin and at least one through hole;
a plurality of heating elements linearly disposed above said heat resisting insulating substrate;
shield means, interposed between the heat resisting insulating substrate and the plurality of heating elements, for preventing the heat resisting insulating substrate from exerting chemical influence on the plurality of heating elements;
conduction control means, mounted on the heat insulating substrate and operatively connected to one end of each of the plurality of heating elements through a plurality of discrete electrodes, for controlling electric conduction of the plurality of heating elements so as to control printing of desired data;
and
common electrode means, formed above the heat resisting insulating substrate, for commonly connecting the other end of each of the plurality of heating elements, said common electrode means including a plurality of common electrodes, each of the plurality of common electrodes connecting the end of at least two of said plurality of heating elements.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.