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US 5,957,594 AGranted
Thermo-tape unit having a thermo-tape provided with at least one marking stripe configuration
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorMartin Loidl
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Abstract
In a thermo-tape unit (1) having a supply reel hub (2) and a supply roll (5) of thermo-tape (6) wound on the supply reel hub (2), the thermo-tape has at least one marking stripe configuration (14) at least in its leading area (8), which configuration comprises at least one marking stripe section (15, 16, 17) having a given section dimension (L1, L2, L3) in the longitudinal direction (L) of the thermo-tape (6), and at least one characteristic of the thermo-tape unit (1) is encoded by means of this section dimension (L1, L2, L3) of the marking stripe section (15, 16, 17).
Claims7
A thermo-tape unit comprising
- a supply reel hub and a supply roll of thermo-tape wound on the supply reel hub, which thermo-tape has a trailing area adjoining the supply reel hub and a leading area remote from the supply reel hub, and a front side provided with an ink layer activable under the influence of heat and a back side at the reverse of the front side, characterized in that
- at least in its leading area the thermo-tape has at least one marking stripe configuration which comprises at least one marking stripe section having a given section dimension which extends in the longitudinal direction of the thermo-tape, and at least one characteristic of the thermo-tape unit is encoded by means of the section dimension which extends in the longitudinal direction of the thermo-tape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.