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US 7,954,713 B2Granted
Tag label producing device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTsuyoshi Nagae, Satoru Moriyama
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Abstract
The tag-label producing device includes: a cartridge holder for selectively installing a first roll and a first roll; a tape feed roller, a ribbon take-up roller, and a switching mechanism that impart a drive force in the tape length direction to this tape; an antenna for performing transmission/reception of information through wireless communication to/from an IC circuit part of an RFID circuit element, upon the installation of the first roll; a cartridge sensor for detecting which one of the first rolls has been installed; and a control circuit including a tag tape mode and an ordinary-tape mode, for controlling a drive unit by switching between the modes.
Claims8
A tag-label producing device comprising:
- a roll mounting/dismounting part that selectively installs a tag tape roll around which a tag tape is wound, and an ordinary-tape roll around which an ordinary tape is wound, said tag tape having arranged thereon an RFID circuit element including an IC circuit part that stores information and a tag-side antenna connected to said IC circuit part;
- at least a roller drive shaft that feeds a tape in a tape length direction, the tape being supplied from said tag tape roll or said ordinary-tape roll mounted on said roll mounting/dismounting part;
- a transmitting/receiving device that performs transmission/reception of information to/from said IC circuit part of said RFID circuit element equipped in said tag tape via wireless communication, upon installation of said tag tape roll using said roll mounting/dismounting part;
- a detection device that detects which one of said tag tape roll and said ordinary-tape roll has been installed using said roll mounting/dismounting device;
- and
- a controller including, with respect to tape slack reduction processing, a tag tape mode and an ordinary-tape mode respectively corresponding to said tag tape roll and said ordinary-tape roll, that controls said roller drive shaft by switching said mode in accordance with a result of detection by said detection device;
- wherein:
- said controller controls said roller drive shall so that a predetermined amount of feeding of said tape in a forward or reverse direction for said tape slack reduction processing is performed upon loading said tag tape or said ordinary-tape in said device;
- and
- said controller controls said roller drive shaft so that:
- in said ordinary-tape mode, a feeding of said ordinary tape by a first distance for said tape slack reduction processing is performed;
- and
- in said tag tape mode, a feeding of said tag tape by a second distance, which is shorter than said first distance, for said tape slack reduction processing is performed.
10 more elements
A tag-label producing device comprising:
- a roll mounting/dismounting part that selectively installs a tag tape roll around which a tag tape is wound, and an ordinary-tape roll around which an ordinary tape is wound, said tag tape having arranged thereon an RFID circuit element including an IC circuit part that stores information and a tag-side antenna connected to said IC circuit part;
- at least a roller drive shaft that feeds a tape in a tape length direction, the tape being supplied from said tag tape roll or said ordinary-tape roll mounted on said roll mounting/dismounting part;
- a transmitting/receiving device that performs transmission/reception of information to/from said IC circuit part of said RFID circuit element equipped in said tag tape via wireless communication, upon installation of said tag tape roll using said roll mounting/dismounting part;
- a detection device that detects which one of said tag tape roll and said ordinary-tape roll has been installed using said roll mounting/dismounting device;
- and
- a controller including, with respect to tape slack reduction processing, a tag tape mode and an ordinary-tape mode respectively corresponding to said tag tape roll and said ordinary-tape roll, that controls said roller drive shaft by switching said mode in accordance with a result of detection by said detection device:
- wherein:
- said controller controls said roller drive shaft so that a predetermined amount of feeding of said tape in a forward or reverse direction for said tape slack reduction processing is performed upon loading said tag tape or said ordinary-tape in said device;
- and
- said controller controls said roller drive shaft so that:
- in said ordinary-tape mode, a feeding of said ordinary tape by a first distance for said tape slack reduction processing is performed;
- and
- in said tag tape mode, a feeding of said tag tape by a another distance, which is longer than said first distance, for said tape slack reduction processing is performed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.