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US 6,722,649 B2Granted
Card processing apparatus
AssigneeNisca Corporation
InventorKenichi Yui
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InventorKenichi Yui
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A card processing apparatus allows for a more compact apparatus that does not cause a reduction in card transporting and printing processing capacity, but improves the freedom of design as an apparatus by establishing a plurality of processing units such as a printer and coating unit in a rational manner. This is attained by a card processing apparatus having a first transport path extended from a card supply unit, a turning unit on said first transport path, a first processing unit to perform the determined process on a card on said first transport path, a second transport path established obliquely to the card transport direction transported through said first transport path based on said turning unit having an angle of 90° or more and less than 180° with regard to the transport path extending from said first processing unit on said first transport path up to said turning unit, a second processing unit to perform the determined process on said card on said second transport path, and a card discharge unit provided at the end of either said first or said second transport paths.
A card processing apparatus having a substantially horizontally arranged first transport path extended from a card supply unit, a turning unit on said first transport path, a thermal transfer printer that records by thermally transferring information to a card on said first transport path between said card supply unit and said turning unit, a second transport path established at said turning unit and having an angle of 90° or more and less than 180° relative to the first transport path and in a direction away from said thermal transfer printer disposed on said first transport path a coating unit for overcoating coating film on a surface of said card recorded by said thermal transfer printer on said second transport path, and a card discharge unit provided at an end of either said first or said second transport path.
A card processing apparatus provided with a substantially horizontally arranged first transport path extended from a card supply unit, a turning unit established along said first transport path, a second transport path and a third transport path established obliquely at first and second angles, respectively, relative to said first transport path, the first angle different from the second angle, each in a direction away from said turning unit and said first transport path, a card discharge unit provided at an end of at least one of said first, said second and said third transport paths, and first, second and third processing units each established respectively in said first, said second and said third transport paths for performing pre-determined processes on a card.
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