JPH0443792B2 - - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable the operator to recognize a recorded image as a normal image and to read easily the results of recording, by disposing a recorder on the rear side of a recording medium, with respect to a feeding passage for the medium, and by recording images in the state of being reversed left side right on the medium which has a see-through property. CONSTITUTION:A thermal head 72 functioning as a recording means is disposed on the rear side of a transparent tape 70. According to dot pattern data, the head 72 reads sequentially column data of a dot matrix constituting a character, starting from the leftmost column, and drives an array of heat generating elements to print the character in the state of being reversed left side right on the rear side on the tape 70. The tape feeding direction when viewed from the head 72 is set opposite to an ordinary direction, whereby the printed pattern is the horizontally reversed pattern, though the dot pattern and the reading sequence are the same as those in the case of printing a normal image.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION <Industrial Field of Application> The present invention relates to a recording apparatus that records on a recording medium, and more particularly to a recording apparatus that performs left-right reversal recording.

<Prior art> As such a recording device, for example, the
Publication No. 13551, Publication No. 61-31260, Publication No. 61-148064
In this method, a recording device such as a thermal head performs inversion recording on a recording medium such as a transparent film sheet using a recording material such as an ink ribbon.

The result of the reversal recording is viewed as a normal image when the recording medium is seen through from the surface of the recording medium opposite to the reversal recording surface.

<Problems to be Solved by the Invention> However, in all of the above-mentioned recording apparatuses, the recording means is provided on the operator's side with respect to the recording medium. Therefore, the recorded result is an image that is horizontally reversed when viewed from the operator, and the operator has to visually recognize the reversed recording itself, making it difficult to read the recorded result.

<Means for Solving the Problems> The present invention has been made to solve such problems, and the recording device according to the present invention includes a housing of the recording device main body and a transparent recording medium. A conveyance means that conveys the recording medium along the medium conveyance path and sends it out of the housing, and a recording medium that is conveyed along the medium conveyance path, with the surface of the recording medium being conveyed out of the housing as viewed from the front by the user of this recording apparatus, with respect to the medium conveyance path. a recording means disposed on the back side of the recording medium for recording with a recording material on the back side of the recording medium; and a recording means arranged on the back side of the recording medium so that the recorded image formed on the back side of the recording medium is a horizontally reversed image when viewed from the back side. The present invention is characterized by comprising a control means for causing the recording means to perform reversal recording, and a means for pasting the adhesive surface of a double-sided adhesive tape having a release paper pasted on one side on the recording surface of the recording medium.

<Operations and Effects> According to the recording apparatus as described above, the recording means performs inversion recording on the back surface of the recording medium opposite to the front surface as viewed from the operator. Therefore, the operator sees through the recording medium and recognizes the result of the inversion recording as a normal image. Therefore, it becomes easier for the operator to decipher the recorded results.

In addition, since the recorded surface is protected by being sandwiched between the recording medium and double-sided adhesive tape,
The resulting laminate can be attached to an object after removing the release paper from the double-sided adhesive tape, and can also prevent the recording pattern from fading or disappearing due to contact with the recording surface from the operator side. It is possible.

<Example> Hereinafter, an example in which the present invention is applied to a tape printing device will be described in detail based on the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows the overall configuration of the tape printing device. This tape printing device includes an input section 10 for inputting printing data, and a printing section (printer section) 14 for printing according to the printing data, and the main body of the device is constituted by a housing 12. The input unit 10 is provided with a rotatable character selection (input) dial 16 that functions as an input member. This selection dial 16 has a circular shape,
On the annular dial surface 17, a large number of characters such as letters (kana, alphabets, numbers), symbols, codes, etc. are displayed in two rows at equal intervals. Hereinafter, to avoid complexity, these characters will be typically referred to as characters.

The input unit 10 is also provided with a positioning point 18 adjacent to the character selection dial 16 for defining the origin and character selection position of the character selection dial 16. Inside the character selection dial 16, a confirmation key 20 that is operated to confirm the character to be printed is provided concentrically with the character selection dial 16. After the character selection operation using the character selection dial 16, this confirmation key 20 is pressed, so that among the characters located at the alignment point 18, the character selected by the outer and inner selection keys 25, which will be described later, is This will be confirmed as an input character. Note that the characters to be aligned with the alignment points 18 are sequentially displayed on a liquid crystal display 22 provided in the input section 10.

The input unit 10 further includes keys 24 and 26 located adjacent to the character selection dial 16 and for specifying character spacing and character size, respectively, an outside and inside selection key 25,
Insert key 28, delete key 30, kana/kanji conversion key 32, search key 3 for searching kanji candidates
4. A plurality of necessary function keys 36 such as a print key 35 for printing are provided.

Next, the character selection dial 16 and the confirmation key 20 will be explained in more detail.

As shown in FIG. 3, the selection dial 16 is rotatably held within a cylindrical portion 40 formed in a cover 38 that constitutes a part of the housing 12, and the dial portion to be rotated protrudes from the cover 38. On the other hand, a slit disk 42 is concentrically fixed to the lower end of the selection dial 16.

As shown in FIG. 4, optical gratings are formed on this slit disk 42 by black silk printing at equal angular intervals. 45 is a light transmitting portion. This optical grating, as shown in FIG.
and a group of slits 48 on the inner circumference side for determining the rotational direction of the selection dial. In this embodiment, the group of slits 46 on the outer circumference side are formed with a pitch of 7.5 degrees, Side slit group 48
is clockwise with respect to the slit group 46 on the outer circumference side.
The phase is shifted by 2.5°. A photosensor 50 optically detects the inner and outer slit groups 46 and 48 (see FIG. 3).
It is provided at a position sandwiching the slit disk 42.

This photosensor 50 has a light source on one side and a photoelectric element on the other side, and the grating part 44 has a signal of 1, and the slit part 45 has a signal of 0.
It is connected to a microcomputer as will be explained in detail later. As shown in FIG. 2, at the dial phase where "A/A" matches the positioning point 18, the reading of the photosensor 50 becomes 〓1,1〓 as shown in FIG. Only one position, “A・A”, has such a reading, and this position is taken as the origin of the character selection dial 16, and the next output of the photosensor 50 is determined by rotation of the character selection dial 16 from this origin. If it is "0,0", it is determined that the rotation direction of the selection dial 16 is clockwise in FIG. 2, and if it is "0,1", it is determined that it is counterclockwise. In this way, the direction of rotation is determined, and by counting the pulses detected by the grating portion 44 and the slit portion 45 of the slit disk 42, the rotational phase of the character selection dial 16 and, by extension, the character located at the alignment point 18 can be read. It's getting old.

As shown in FIG. 3, the confirmation key 20 is fitted inside the ring-shaped character selection dial 16 so as to be slidable in the axial direction, and is attached by a spring 54 so as to protrude from the character selection dial 16. However, the protrusion 56 engages with the lower end of the character selection dial 16 to prevent it from coming off. A contact plate 58 made of elastically deformable rubber is provided at the lower end of the confirmation key 20, and a contact point 62 is configured astride this contact plate 58 and the substrate 60 of the input section 10. It also serves as a dust boot for dustproofing the contacts 62, and is designed to be able to rotate while in contact with the substrate 60. The function key 36 also has the same structure as the confirmation key 20, and includes a contact plate 64 made of rubber and a substrate 6.
A contact point 66 is formed between the two terminals 0 and 0, and a key signal is generated.

Returning to FIG. 2, the printing section 14 is covered by a transparent cover case 69 that can be opened and closed.
9 also constitutes a part of the housing 12. In this printing section 14, a transparent film tape 70 (hereinafter referred to as transparent tape), which is a recording medium, is fed along the longitudinal direction to the left in the figure, and a thermal head 72, which functions as a recording means, prints on this transparent tape 70. I do. The thermal head 72 includes a heating element array (not shown) in the form of a dot array in a direction perpendicular to the feeding direction of the transparent tape 70, and as is clear from FIG.
4 and a transparent tape 70, and is in pressure contact with a platen roller 76, and the platen roller 76 is rotatably supported around an axis parallel to the heating element array.

Here, if the surface of the transparent tape 70 viewed from direction A in FIG. tape 7
It is arranged on the back side of 0. Then, the heat generating element array of the thermal head 72 generates heat in a predetermined pattern, and the ink on the ink ribbon 74 is transferred to the back surface of the transparent tape 70, which is transferred to the left in FIG. 1, by the heat. This makes it possible to perform left-right reversal printing of a reversed pattern when viewed from the back side.

Note that the tape feeding direction is to the left when viewed from the operator side, and in this respect it is the same as a general tape printing device, but when viewed from the side of the thermal head 72 located on the back side of the transparent tape 70. The direction is to the right, and in this respect it can be said that the direction is opposite to that of general tape feeding.

The ink ribbon 74 is stored in a ribbon cassette 78 and drawn out from a supply spool 80 shown in FIG.

The transparent tape 70 is held in a wound state around a supply spool 90. As is clear from FIG. 6, the supply spool 90 is fitted onto a spool shaft 92 so that it can rotate integrally therewith. This spool shaft 92 and the substrate 93 of the printing section 14
A spring washer 94 is provided between the spool 90 and the spool 90 to provide appropriate rotational resistance to the rotation of the spool 90 to prevent the transparent tape 70 from being pulled out more than necessary. Note that as another means for preventing the transparent tape 70 from being pulled out more than necessary, for example, a spiral spring 95 as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 may be used. One end of the spiral spring 95 is fixed to a non-rotating member 96, and the other end is brought into contact with the inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical portion 97 integrally formed with the spool shaft 92 with a certain preload. When the cylindrical portion 97 rotates, rotational resistance is applied to the spool 90 by the frictional force generated at the sliding contact portion with the spiral spring 95.

In any case, as shown in FIG. 1, the transparent tape 70 pulled out from the supply spool 90 is fed between the thermal head 72 and the platen roller 76 while being directed by a guide roller 98. The transparent tape 70 printed with the thermal head 72 is sent further downstream, where a pair of rollers 99 and 100 are provided adjacent to each other, and between the rollers 99 and 100, the transparent tape 70 after the inversion printing is The tape 70 is designed to be sandwiched.

A supply spool 104 is provided on the opposite side of the ribbon cassette 78 from the supply spool 90 of the transparent tape 70 and holds a double-sided tape 102 with a release paper wound thereon.
It is integrated into 6. Similar to the supply spool 90 that holds the transparent tape 70 shown in FIGS. The double-sided tape 102 with release paper is supplied between rollers 99 and 100, and is attached to the transparent tape 70 after printing.

As is clear from FIG. 9, this double-sided tape with release paper 102 includes a base tape 107 made of paper, adhesive layers 108 and 110 on both sides of the base tape 107, and adhesive layers 108 and 110 on both sides.
10, and a release paper 111 covering the adhesive layer 1.
In 08, on the back side of the transparent tape 70 after printing,
It will be pressed by rollers 99 and 100.

The rollers 99, 100 and the platen roller 76 are selectively driven to rotate, and their drive system will be described with reference to FIG. 10. A gear 112 is provided on the roller 99, and a gear 114 is provided on the roller 100 integrally and concentrically, and both gears 112 and 114 can mesh with each other. Gear 114 is intermediate gear 11
Gear lever 12 with 6, 118 and 120
The gear lever 12 is rotatably supported by the gear lever 12.
The second gears 114, 116, 118 and 120 are always engaged in this order, and the pinion 124 fixed to the output shaft of the tape feed motor 123, which is the drive source, is always engaged with the intermediate gears 116, 126. It meshes with the winding gear 128 for the cassette. The take-up gear 128 is arranged concentrically with the spool drive shaft 84 as shown in FIG.
A take-up spool 82 of the ribbon cassette 78 is fitted into the ribbon cassette 4. Note that the winding gear 128 and the spool drive shaft 84 are allowed to rotate relative to each other with a torque above a certain level.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 10, the roller gear 13 is integrated with and concentrically with the platen roller 76 in FIG.
2 is fixedly installed, and this roller gear 132 is rotatably supported at the tip of a platen roller pressure lever 134. The platen roller crimping lever 134 is rotatably supported at its intermediate portion by a vertical shaft 136 and is supported by a tension spring 138.
As a result, the platen roller 76 is connected to the thermal head 72.
It is biased in the direction of being pressed against.

The gear lever 122 is rotatable around an axis 0 concentric with the intermediate gear 116, and as shown in FIG.
In the first position engaged with gear 120
is separated from the roller gear 132 of the platen roller 76, and from this state, the gear lever 122 is rotated counterclockwise as shown in FIG.
In the second position where 14 is spaced apart from gear 112,
The arrangement of the gear groups described above is determined so that the gear 120 meshes with the gear 132 of the platen roller 76.

A switching operation section 140 is formed at one end of the gear lever 122 and protrudes upward from the cover 38 of the input section 12 (see FIG. 3).
8 has a circular arc groove formed therein, although not shown.
Further, a torsion spring 142 is provided for selectively holding the gear lever 122 in the two positions. This torsion spring 142 is attached in a pre-compressed state, with one end locked to the substrate 93 of the printing section 14 and the other end locked to the tip of the gear lever 122. When the working end B of the torsion spring 142 is on the gear 112 side, the gear lever 122 is biased clockwise based on the straight line connecting the rotation center O of the gear lever 122 and the base end A of the torsion spring 142. 10, and when the working end B is on the opposite side from the gear 112, the gear lever 122
is biased counterclockwise to maintain it in the second position shown in FIG.

In this embodiment, the tape feed motor 123
becomes the driving force for the conveying means and ribbon feeding means,
Further, in the first position, the rollers 99 and 100 that are rotationally driven by the gears 112 and 114 function as feed rollers of the conveyance means, and in the second position, the platen roller 76 that is rotationally driven by the gear 132 functions as a feed roller. functions as and,
A series of spaces for transporting the transparent tape 70 from the supply spool 90 through the guide roller 98, thermal head 72, platen roller 76, and rollers 99 and 100 corresponds to a medium transport path. Also, gears 114, 116, 118 and 1
A gear lever 122 that supports the gear lever 20 and is equipped with a switching operation section 140, and a torsion spring 14 that biases the gear lever 122.
2 constitute a switching device.

Further downstream of the rolls 99, 100, as shown in FIG. 1, a composite cutting mechanism 144 is provided. As shown in FIG. 13, the composite cutting mechanism 144 includes a double-sided tape 1 with a release paper attached to a transparent tape 70.
A cutter support member 146 is placed on the release paper 111 side with a composite tape 145 to which 02 is attached sandwiched therebetween.
Also, a switching plate 148 is placed on the transparent tape 70 side.
It is equipped with

The cutter support member 146 is connected to the substrate 93 of the printing section 14.
It is fixed to a fixed block 150 fixed to. A complete cutting cutter 152 is fixed to the center of the cutter support member 146 and faces the composite tape 145 from the release paper 111 side.
The cutter support member 146 also includes half-cutting cutters 154 and 156 on both sides of the full-cutting cutter 152.
are fixed, each facing the release paper 111, and arranged at equal distances on the upstream and downstream sides of the composite tape 145 feeding direction (indicated by the white arrow) with respect to the complete cutting cutter 152. .

As shown in FIG. 14, half cutting cutter 15
The amount of protrusion from the cutter support member 146 of 4,156 blades, that is, the blade height H ₁ is the same, and the release paper 111
(thickness t ₁ ), and the blade height H ₂ of the complete cutting cutter 152 from the cutter support member 146 is: H ₁ +t ₂ +t ₃ ≦H ₂ <H ₁ +t ₂ +t ₃ +d t ₂ : Thickness of base tape 107 t ₃ : Thickness of transparent tape 70 d : Depth of notch 172 (however, the thickness of adhesive layers 108 and 110 is ignored). . In other words, the half-cutting cutters 154 and 156 face the release paper 111 at a position where the blade edge is retreated by l (l≧t ₂ +t ₃ ) from the blade edge of the full-cut cutter 152 toward the side away from the release paper 111. In contrast, the complete cutting cutter 152 only cuts the release paper 111 and the base tape 107.
and the composite tape 14 over the transparent tape 70
It plays the role of completely dividing 5.

Furthermore, a pair of tape pressing members 158 are supported by the cutter support member 146 at symmetrical positions sandwiching the full cutting cutter 152 and the half cutting cutters 154 and 156, and are moved in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the release paper 111. It is considered possible. Each tape pressing member 158 is biased by a compression spring 160 in a direction to protrude toward the release paper 111, but a flange portion 162 formed on the rear end surface
comes into contact with the cutter support member 146,
A protrusion limit toward the release paper 111 side is determined.
Then, the tape pressing member 158 in this state
The amount of protrusion from the cutter support member 146 is set to be larger than the blade height H ₂ of the complete cutting cutter 152, but set to an amount that does not interfere with the release paper 111.

On the other hand, the cutting plate 148 is rotatably supported around a shaft 164 at one end, and along a plane perpendicular to the width direction of the composite tape 145.
It is possible to approach and separate from the cutters 152, 154, 156 and a pair of tape pressing members 158. The cutting plate 148 is always urged in the separating direction by the tension spring 166, but the rotation limit in the separating direction is set by the stopper 168.
stipulated by. A cutting lever 170 is integrally provided at the other end of the cutting plate 148, and this lever 170 moves the cutting plate 148.
It is designed to perform rotational operations. Furthermore, a notch 172 is formed on the plate surface of the cutting plate 148 facing the transparent tape 70 on an extension line of the cutting edge of the complete cutting cutter 152.
It is said to be a recess into which the cutting edge of No. 2 enters.

Such a cutting plate 148 plays the role of clamping and fixing the composite tape 145 together with a pair of tape pressing members 158, and also performs a cutting movement that presses the composite tape 145 against the cutters 152, 154 and 156 to cut it. It functions as a applying mechanism, and the rotation center 164 is set so that the cutting plate 148 and the composite tape 145 are substantially parallel to each other during cutting. Note that the cutting lever 170 protrudes outside the housing 12 as shown in FIG. 2, and can be operated from the outside.

Next, a control device for controlling the input section 10 and the printing section 14 will be explained based on the block diagram shown in FIG. 15.

The photosensor 50 that detects the rotational phase of the selection dial 16 is connected to a microcomputer (hereinafter abbreviated as microcomputer) 174 along with a confirmation key 20 and various function keys 36 that confirm the character selected by the selection dial 16. is connected to the input interface 176 of. Input interface 176 is connected by bus line 178.
CPU180, ROM182, RAM184, character generator (hereinafter referred to as CG-ROM)
186, 188 and output interface 190
It is connected to the.

The ROM 182 includes a program memory 192 that stores programs that control the overall operation of this tape printing device, and a dictionary memory 194 that is used for kana/kanji conversion, etc., and the RAM 184 includes various counters, registers, and buffers. .
The CG-ROM 186 generates a dot matrix character pattern for printing based on the input character code data.
8 generates a dot pattern of characters to be displayed on the liquid crystal display 22. A head drive circuit 196, a motor drive circuit 198, and a display drive circuit 200 are connected to the output interface 190, and the thermal head 72,
A tape feed motor 123 and a liquid crystal display 22 are connected.

Note that, as described above, the thermal head 72 is located on the back side of the transparent tape 70 (backward in FIG. 2), with the heating element row facing toward the front, and
Since the transparent tape 70 is fed from right to left in FIG. 2, and from the thermal head 72 side to the right, the dot pattern data is sent in the same order as in the case of a general thermal printer. While reading, in other words, the column data is CG-
By driving the heating element array while reading from the ROM 186, the back side of the transparent tape 70 (second
Left/right reverse printing is performed on the rear side (in the figure). In other words, since the tape feeding direction as seen from the thermal head 72 side is reversed from the normal case, the printing becomes a horizontally reversed pattern even though the dot pattern and readout order are the same as for normal image printing. It is. In this embodiment, the CPU 180 mainly constitutes a control means for performing reverse printing as described above.

Next, the operation of the tape printing device as described above will be explained.

After the power is turned on, the origin is set by aligning "A" on the selection dial 16 with the positioning point 18 and pressing the enter key 20. From then on, the CPU 180 performs various signal processing. conduct.

Then, use the outer/inner selection key 25 to select the outer or inner character string of the selection dial 16,
The character to be input is selected by rotating the character selection dial 16, and the print data is supplied to the microcomputer 174 by pressing the enter key 20. The characters aligned to alignment point 18 are CG-ROM188
It is displayed on the liquid crystal display 22 via. Also, the dot pattern of the characters to be printed is CG-ROM.
186 and stored in a print buffer (not shown) of RAM 184. When the print key 35 is pressed, the dot pattern is read out, and the thermal head 72 performs left-right reverse printing on the transparent tape 70, but the result of this reverse printing is the normal image as seen by the operator. This has the advantage that the print result can be easily distinguished.

By the way, in the embodiment, prior to such printing, either the first state or the second state is selected depending on the presence or absence of the double-sided tape with release paper 102.

The double-sided tape 10 with a release paper is attached to the first state, that is, the reversely printed printing surface (back side) of the transparent tape 70.
2, the gear lever 122 is placed in the first position as shown in FIG. In this first position, the gear 114 is engaged with the gear 112 and the roller 99 and the roller 100 are pressed against each other, while the intermediate gear 120 is separated from the roller gear 132.

As a result, the driving force of the tape feed motor 123 is transmitted to the gear 114 and the gear 1 via the intermediate gear 116.
12, and the rollers 99 and 100 rotate in opposite directions while sandwiching the transparent tape 70 and the double-sided tape 102 with release paper. As a result, the transparent tape 70 is pulled out from the supply spool 90 and placed on the thermal head 7 in accordance with the printing timing.
At the same time, the double-sided tape 102 with release paper is pulled out from the supply spool 104. Although the platen roller 76 is disconnected from the motor 123, it is urged toward the thermal head 72 by the platen pressure spring 138, so that it rotates together with the running tape 70 due to the frictional force generated between the platen roller 76 and the running tape 70. . As is clear from FIG. 2, the roller 99 has flanges at both ends for tape positioning, and the tapes 70, 102 are attached to these flanges.
Both ends of the tapes 70 and 102 are in contact with each other to define the position in the width direction, and the roller surface between the flanges works together with the roller 100 to sandwich the tapes 70 and 102.

The rollers 99 and 100 feed the tape as described above, but they also form the main body of the tape applicator, and the transparent tape 70 and the double-sided tape with release paper 102 are moved by the force of the torsion spring 142 (see FIG. 10). By sandwiching and rotating the transparent tape 70 while overlapping it, the double-sided tape 102 with release paper is pasted on the reverse printed surface of the transparent tape 70 in the adhesive layer 108 . By this pasting, the aforementioned composite tape 145 is formed. The inverted printing portion 204 can be seen through the transparent tape 70 from the direction of the arrow in FIG. 9 and is visually recognized as a normal image as shown in FIG. It also serves as a protective film to protect the statue.

This composite tape 145 is attached to rollers 99, 100
As shown in FIG. 13, the tape is sent further downstream by the rotation of the tape, reaches the composite cutting mechanism 144 as shown in FIG. It becomes stationary.

In this state, by operating the cutting lever 170 clockwise in FIG. 13 against the biasing force of the tension spring 166, the complete cutting cutter 152 completely cuts off the composite tape 145, and
After the second cut, the half cutting cutter 154,
156 is a half-cut portion 206, 2 that cuts only the release paper 111 and serves as a cut when peeling it off.
08 (see FIG. 17) are formed respectively.

After completion of such cutting operation, the cutting plate 148 is returned to its original position by the tension spring 166;
Further, the tape pressing member 158 is returned to its original position by the compression spring 160, and the fixed state of the composite tape 145 is released, so that the tape can be fed again.

The tape piece 210 created in this way is
As shown in FIG. 17, there are two half-cut portions 208, 212, one at each end near each end. That is, with one cutting operation,
Half cut parts 206 and 208 are completely cut parts 21
It is formed adjacent to both sides of 4, of which the first
A half-cut portion 208 formed by the half-cutting cutter 154 in FIG. 3 is for a tape piece 216 to be produced next time. In addition, the other half cut portion 2 formed on the tape piece 210
12 is the one formed by the half cutting cutter 154 in the previous cutting operation of the tape piece.

Such a tape piece 210 is attached to a predetermined object by peeling off the release paper 111. that time,
If you hold both ends of the tape piece 210 between your fingers and bend it toward the transparent tape 70, both ends of the central release paper piece 111a will lift up from the transparent tape 70 at the half-cut parts 206, 212, so hold that part and bend the release paper. 111a can be easily peeled off. Since it is possible to position the tape piece 210 with respect to the attachment receptor while supporting both ends of the tape piece 210 and stretching it, it is possible to accurately attach it to a desired position in the part where the release paper 111a has been peeled off. At both ends of the tape piece 210, the release paper pieces 111b and 111c are peeled off and pasted one after another, but since the parts other than both ends have already been pasted, there is no need to worry about misalignment. That is, 100% of the positioning work on the patch receptor and most of the pasting work can be performed without touching the adhesive layer 110.

On the other hand, in the second state, that is, by simply performing reverse printing on the transparent tape 70, the double-sided tape 102 with release paper
When not pasting the transparent tape 70 and the double-sided tape with release paper 10 used in the first state.
2 from the spool shafts 92 and 106, and remove only the new transparent tape 70 from the spool shafts 92 and 106.
Attach to. When replacing the transparent tape 70 and the double-sided tape with release paper 102, rotate the platen roller pressure lever 134 shown in FIG. 10 counterclockwise in the figure against the biasing force of the tension spring 138. A gap is formed between the platen roller 76 and the thermal head 72, and the transparent tape 70 pulled out from the spool 90 can be passed through the gap. Furthermore, if the gear lever 122 is located at the second position shown in FIG. 12, a gap is secured between the rollers 99 and 100 as described above, so that the double-sided tape with release paper 102 can be easily replaced. be able to. In this way, the transparent tape 7
After installing only gear lever 1 in Fig. 10,
22 is switched from the first position shown in the figure to the second position shown in FIG. 12 by the switching operation section 140. That is, the gear lever 122 is connected to the intermediate gear 11
The gear 114 is separated from the gear 112 and the roller 100 is separated from the roller 99, while the intermediate gear 120 is engaged with the gear 132 of the platen roller 76. It is.

By this switching operation, the tape feed motor 123
rotation is transmitted to roller gear 132 via intermediate gears 116, 118 and 120, causing platen roller 76 to rotate counterclockwise in FIG. While the transparent tape 70 is fed in the longitudinal direction by the platen roller 76, reverse printing is performed on the transparent tape 70 by the thermal head 72 (see FIG. 18). Here, the final gear ratio from the pinion 124 of the motor 123 to the gear 132 is set equal to the final gear ratio from the pinion 124 to the gears 114, 112, so the tape feeding speed does not substantially change from the first state. do not have.

The transparent tape 70 that has been printed and sent downstream is
The transparent tape passes between the rollers 99 and 100, but in this second state, the roller 99 is cut off from the motor 123 and the rollers 99 and 100 are separated from each other. 70 is not sandwiched between the rollers 99, 100 and sent. Therefore, there is no fear that the printing surface of the tape 70 will be rubbed by the frictional force of the rollers 99, 100 and the printing will disappear or be disturbed.

Transparent tape 70 with reverse printing like this
As with the composite tape 145 described above, the composite tape 145 is cut into an appropriate length by the composite cutting mechanism 144. In this case, after the transparent tape 70 is divided by the complete cutting cutter 152, there is a risk that the transparent tape 70 will be damaged by the half cutting cutters 154, 156 due to the cutting lever 170 being rotated. However, to prevent this, it is effective to provide a movable stopper, for example. The stopper is movable between an active position and a retracted position, and in the active position, a certain limit of the cutting plate 148 is set to prevent the transparent tape 70 from contacting the half-cutting cutters 154 and 156 after cutting by the full-cutting cutter 152. Although the above rotation is prevented, it does not have this blocking function in the retracted position. Then, in the first state, it is switched to the retracted position, and in the second state, it is switched to the operating position.

Then, the transparent tape 70 is cut into a predetermined length.
The ink that forms the reverse print part is transferred to the receiver as a normal image by applying pressure by rubbing the front side of the tape piece with the reverse print side in close contact with a designated receiver. You can do lettering easily, so to speak. The composite tape 145 obtained in the first state can be called a positive image adhesive tape because it is used by pasting it on a receptor, whereas the single tape 70 obtained in the second state is a pressure transfer tape. It should be called a tape. Normally, it is desirable to use an ink that has better transfer properties than the ink used for the composite tape 145, and in that case, when switching between the first state and the second state, In addition, when the transparent tape 70 and the double-sided tape 102 with release paper are replaced with a new transparent tape 70, the ribbon cassette 78 is also replaced. Furthermore, in order to further improve the ink transferability in the second state, it is desirable that the newly replaced transparent tape 70 has a surface with poor wettability.

In the above embodiments, the transparent tape 70 was used as the medium for reverse printing, but colored translucent tape or the like may also be used as long as it has transparency.

Furthermore, the base tape 107 constituting the double-sided tape with release paper 102 is not limited to being made of paper, but may be appropriately changed to a film material having transparency.

Furthermore, instead of using the double-sided tape 102 with release paper, a tape with an adhesive layer only on the reverse printed side, that is, the double-sided tape 10 shown in FIG.
2 to base tape 107 and adhesive layer 110
You may also use tape with the .

Further, instead of the configuration in which the platen roller 76 also serves as a tape conveyance means, a roller dedicated to tape conveyance that is rotationally driven in the above-described second state may be provided downstream of the platen roller 76 in the tape conveyance direction. On the other hand, the rollers 99 and 100 can also be used exclusively for the application device for the double-sided tape with release paper 102, and a roller functioning as a conveying means can be provided further downstream from the rollers.

Furthermore, when forming the pressure transfer tape, the rollers do not contact the inverted printed portion at the center of the tape, and the clamping force by the rollers acts only on the portions near both ends in the width direction of the tape, for example, the rollers 99,
In addition to 100, a pair of pressure transfer tape conveying rollers may be provided, and at least one of these rollers may be a medium-thin roller. In this way, the pressure transfer tape can be transported reliably, and there is no fear that the reverse printing portion will be blurred.

It is also possible to provide half-cutting cutters only on one side of the full-cutting cutter, instead of providing them on both sides. In that case, one half-cut portion will be formed at one end side or the center of the composite tape piece. Furthermore, the full-cutting cutter and the half-cutting cutter are not limited to the push-cutting type, but may also have a pulling-cutting type cutter structure in which the cutting edge moves along the cutting line.

In addition, instead of the above-mentioned composite cut mechanism,
It may be a simple single-blade cutter structure with only a complete cutting cutter, or it may not have a cutter itself.

Furthermore, the present invention is not limited to tape printing devices; for example, the printing head moves along the printing line to print on a transparent printing sheet, and for each printing line, the printing sheet moves in a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the printing head. It can be applied to general recording devices that are line-fed.

In addition, it goes without saying that the present invention can be implemented with various modifications, improvements, etc. based on the knowledge of those skilled in the art.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing the main parts when the present invention is applied to a tape printing device, which is a type of recording device, and FIG. 2 is an external view of the tape printing device. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the selection dial and its vicinity in Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is a plan view showing the main parts of Fig. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the development of the signal in association with the detected signal form. Figure 6 is the first
7 is a cross-sectional view showing a modification of FIG. 6, and FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 7. FIG. 9 is a sectional view of the composite tape created in the first state, FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing the drive system in the first state, and FIG. 11 is a vertical sectional view showing a part of FIG. 10. FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing the drive system in the second state. FIG. 13 is a plan view showing the composite cutting mechanism, and FIG. 14 is a plan view showing the cutter portion taken out. FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing a control circuit of the tape printing device of FIG. 2. Figure 16 is a view in the direction of the arrow in Figure 9;
FIG. 17 is an external view of a tape piece obtained by the composite cutting mechanism of FIG. 13, and FIG. 18 is a sectional view of the pressure transfer tape produced in the second state. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10... Input part, 12... Housing, 14... Printing part, 16... Character selection dial, 18... Positioning point, 20... Confirmation key, 22... Liquid crystal display, 36... Function key, 42... Slit disk, 50... Photo sensor, 70...Transparent tape, 7
2... Thermal head, 74... Ink ribbon, 76
...Platen roller, 78...Ribbon cassette, 80
... Supply spool, 82 ... Take-up spool, 84 ... Spool drive shaft, 90 ... Supply spool, 92 ... Spool shaft, 98 ... Guide roller, 99, 100 ... Roller, 102 ... Double-sided tape with release paper, 104 ...
Supply spool, 112, 114... Gear, 116,
118, 120, 126...Intermediate gear, 122...Gear lever, 123...Tape feed motor, 124...
Pinion, 128... Winding gear, 132... Roller gear, 134... Platen roller pressure lever, 138
... tension spring, 140 ... switching operation section, 142 ... torsion spring, 144 ... composite cutting mechanism, 145 ... composite tape, 146 ... cutter support member, 148 ... cutting plate, 150 ... fixed block, 152 ... complete cutting cutter, 154, 156...Half cutting cutter, 158...Tape pressing member, 166...Tension spring, 170...Cutting lever, 174...Microcomputer, 206, 208, 212...Half cut section, 214...Complete cutting section.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A housing of a main body of a recording device; a conveyance means for conveying a transparent recording medium along a medium conveyance path and sending it out of the housing; a recording means that is disposed on the back side of the recording medium with respect to the medium conveyance path and records with a recording material on the back side of the recording medium, with the side viewed from the front by a user of the apparatus as the front side; a control means for causing the recording means to perform reversal recording so that a recorded image formed on the back surface side of the recording medium becomes a horizontally reversed image when viewed from the back surface side; 1. A recording device comprising means for attaching an adhesive side of a double-sided adhesive tape to which a release paper has been attached in advance. 2. The recording medium has a tape shape, and the conveyance means conveys the recording medium from right to left of the housing along the longitudinal direction, and the recording means conveys the recording medium. 2. A recording apparatus according to claim 1, which performs recording using a dot row perpendicular to a direction. 3. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recording material is an ink ribbon interposed between the recording medium and the recording means, and further comprising means for conveying the ink ribbon.