EP0497352A2
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Tape printer
Assignee: Casio Computer Co Ltd
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Filing: 1992-01-30
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2012-01-30
Abstract
Abstract A tape printer unit comprises a housing (11, 14), a printer unit (22) provided in the housing (11, 14), a keyboard on the housing (11, 14), and a cassette (100, 120) accommodating an adhesive tape (101, 121) and ink ribbon (102, 122) the cassette (100, 120) being removablely attached in the printer unit (22). The tape printer unit prints data input from the keyboard (12) on the adhesive tape (101. 121), and feeds the printed adhesive tape (101, 121) to the outside of the housing (11, 14). The tape printer unit is capable of being used with several different cassettes (100, 120) respectively accommodating adhesive tapes (101, 121) which are of different width from each other, and can automatically print the data according to the width of the adhesive tape (101, 121) accommodated in the cassette (100, 120) which has been attached in the printer unit.
Inventors
- 👤 Satoshi C/O Casio Comp. Patent Dep. Kimura
- 👤 Nobuyuki C/O Casio Comp. Patent Dep. Mochinaga
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-26 14:09
CPC Classifications
B; B41; B41J; B41J3/00; B41J3/407; B41J3/4075; B41J33/00; B41J35/00; B41J35/28
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
166 words
A tape printer comprising: a housing (11, 14); a tape member (100, 101, 108, 120, 121, 128) mountable in said housing (11, 14), said tape member (100, 101, 108, 120, 121, 128) having a given width; data input means (12) for inputting data; printing means (25, 200) provided in said housing (11, 14), for printing the data input from said data input means (12) on said tape member (100, 101, 108, 120, 121, 128); tape-width detecting means (31) provided in said housing (11, 14), for detecting the tape-width of said tape member (100, 101, 108, 120, 121, 128) mounted in said housing (11, 14); and printing control means (50, 55) for controlling a printing operation of said printing means (25, 200) based on the tape-width detected by said tape-width detecting means (31), so that said printing means (25, 200) prints said inputted data in an area corresponding to the width of said tape member (100, 101, 108, 120, 121, 128) mounted in said housing (11, 14).
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
67 words
The tape printer according to claim 1, wherein: said printing means includes a plurality of printing elements (200) arranged in a direction with respect to the width of said tape member; and said printing control means includes means (25, 50, 201, 202, 203, 204) for activating selected ones of said printing elements (200) which are arranged in range within the tape-width detected by said tape-width detecting means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
95 words
The tape printer according to claim 1, wherein: said printing means includes a plurality of printing elements (200) arranged in a direction with respect to the width of said tape member; and said printing control means includes activating means (25, 50, 201, 202, 203, 204) for activating said printing elements and inhibiting means (25, 50, 201, 202, 203, 204) for inhibiting said activating means (25, 50, 201, 202, 203, 204) from activating selected ones of said printing elements (200) which are arranged out of a range within the tape-width detected by said tape-width detecting means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
97 words
The tape printer according claim 1, further comprising: memory means (51) for storing data to be printed by said printing means; printing-width detecting means (50, 52) for detecting printing-width with respect to the data stored in said memory means (51); and judging means (51) including means (51) for comparing the printing-width detected by said printing-width detecting means with the tape-width detected by said tape-width detecting means, and means (51) for judging whether or not the data stored in said memory means can be printed on said given width of said tape member mounted in said housing means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
47 words
The tape printer according to claim 4, further comprising: indicating means (13) for indicating whether or not the data stored in said memory means can be printed on said given width of said tape member mounted in said housing, based on a result of said judging means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
38 words
The tape printer according to claim 1, further comprising: printing-size setting means (50, 52, 56) for setting a printing-size with respect to the data to be printed, in accordance with the tape-width detected by said tape-width detecting means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
59 words
The tape printer according to claim 6, further comprising: printing-size designating means (12) for designating a printing-size of the data to be printed; and wherein said printing-size setting means includes printing-size modifying means (50, 52, 56) for modifying a printing-size designated by said printing-size designating means to be a printing-size corresponding to the tape-width detected said tape-width detecting means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
102 words
The tape printer according to claim 7, wherein: said input means includes means (12) for inputting alphanumeric data; and said printing-size designating means includes means (12) for designating a printing-size for each alphanumeric data input from said input means; and said tape printer further comprising: biggest size detecting means (50, 52) for detecting a biggest printing-size among printing-sizes designated by said printing-size designating means; whereby said printing-size modifying means modifies the printing-size designated by said printing-size designating means so that the biggest printing-size detected by said biggest size detecting means (50, 52) corresponds to the tape-width detected by said tape-width detecting means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
106 words
The tape printer according to claim 1, wherein: said tape member includes a printing tape (101, 121) having a given width, to have the data printed thereon by said printing means and a cassette case (100, 108, 120, 128) having said printing tape therein and having a cassette thickness which is a function of the width of said printing tape (101, 121) contained therein; and said tape-width detecting means includes means (31) for detecting the thickness of said cassette case (100, 108, 120, 128), so as to thereby detect the width of said printing tape (101, 121) contained in said cassette case (100, 108, 120, 128).
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
98 words
The tape printer according to claim 9, further comprising: accommodating means (22) provided in said housing, for removable accommodating said cassette case therein; and adjusting means (30) provided in accommodating means (22), for adjusting one of upper surface and lower surface of said cassette case to a predetermined position when said cassette case is accommodated in said accommodating means (22); and wherein said tape-width detecting means includes means (35, 36) for detecting a position of another of the upper surface and lower surface of said cassette case when said cassette case is accommodated in said accommodating means (22).
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
134 words
A tape printer comprising: a housing (11, 14); a tape member (100, 101, 108, 120, 121, 128) mountable in said housing (11, 14), said tape member (100, 101, 108, 120, 121, 128) having a given width; data input means (12) for inputting data; printing means (25, 200) provided in said housing (11, 14), for printing the data input from said data input means (12) on said tape member (100, 101, 108, 120, 121, 128); tape-width detecting means (31) provided in said housing (11, 14), for detecting the tape-width of said tape member (100, 101, 108, 120, 121, 128) mounted in said housing (11, 14); and printing-size setting means (50, 52, 56) for automatically setting a printing-size of the data to be printed, in accordance with the tape-width detected by said tape-width detecting means (31).
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
57 words
The tape printer according to claim 11, further comprising: printing-size designating means (12) for designating a printing-size of the data to be printed; and wherein said printing-size setting means includes printing-size modifying means (50, 56) for modifying a printing-size designated by said printing-size designating means to be printing-size corresponding to the tape-width detected said tape-width detecting means.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
100 words
The tape printer according to claim 12, wherein: said input means includes means (12) for inputting alphanumeric data; and said printing-size designating means includes means (12) for designating a printing-size for each alphanumeric data input from said input means; and said tape printer further comprising: biggest size detecting means (50, 52) for detecting a biggest printing-size among printing-sizes designated by said printing-size designating means; whereby said printing-size modifying means modifies the printing-size designated by said printing-size designating means so that the biggest printing-size detected by said biggest size detecting means corresponds to the tape-width detected by said tape-width detecting means.
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