Abstract: A checkout apparatus comprises a reading section for reading article codes of articles, and a first feeding section for feeding the articles whose article code are read by the reading section.

Abstract: A reading device includes an inlet port for a boarding pass, a reading section for reading data recorded on part of the boarding pass, and a feeding section for transporting a boarding pass from the inlet port to the reading section. The reading device further includes a rotating section for holding a boarding pass fed thereto and rotating together with the boarding pass, and a control circuit for checking the orientation of the boarding pass inserted into the inlet port, and instructing the feeding section to temporarily feed the boarding pass to the rotating section and instructing said rotating section to turn over the boarding pass when it is detected that the boarding pass has been inserted in a particular incorrect orientation.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is used a conveyance roller for the conveyance of a pasteboard with labels; a separating member is disposed on a downstream side from a pasteboard conveyance path with respect to a printing head which holds the pasteboard with labels between the same and a platen, and in a position close to the printing head; and a pinch roller is provided for holding between the same and the conveyance roller the pasteboard portion which has been bent and separated from a label after printing by the separating member. The conveyance of the pasteboard with labels for printing and the conveyance of the pasteboard for label separating can be done at a time by driving either the conveyance roller or the pinch roller.

Abstract: A label printer comprises a supporting frame having a pair of side plates facing each other. A print head and a platen roller are arranged between the side plates. Above the print head is arranged a ribbon supply device for running a transfer ribbon between the print head and the platen roller. The ribbon supply device includes a ribbon unit supported on a supporting mechanism, and a ribbon drive section attached to the side plate so as to drive the ribbon unit. The supporting mechanism includes a fixed arm fixed to the side plate, and a slider mounted on the fixed arm. The slider supports the ribbon unit thereon and is slidable between a first position where the ribbon unit engages the ribbon drive section and a second position where the ribbon unit is situated outside the supporting frame.

Abstract: Disclosed is a printer device including a printer body and a battery section. The printer body is provided with a paper accommodating portion for replaceably accommodating printing paper. A driving circuit section is located on one side of the paper accommodating portion for controlling an operation of the printer body. The driving circuit section has at least an operating portion. The battery section has a substantially L-shaped configuration formed by a rectangular body located below the paper accommodating portion and a projecting portion located below the driving circuit section so as to project from one end of the rectangular body.

Abstract: A dot print head includes an armature assembly constructed by providing an armature guide holding a plurality of armatures for swing motion in a cup-shaped housing having one open end, slidably guiding a plurality of print wires attached to the inner ends of the armatures by a wire guide, interposing armature return springs between the armatures and the armature guide, disposing an armature stopper in contact with the backsides of the armatures opposite to the front sides of the same facing the armature guide, and disposing stopper seats between the inner surface of the bottom wall of the housing and the inner surface of the armature stopper; and a yoke assembly joined and fastened to the armature assembly with fastening members.

Abstract: A label separator apparatus has a label separating member for separating labels one by one from a long and narrow label carrying paper, on which the labels are adhered, by acutely turning the carrying paper toward a no-label-adhered side thereof while the carrying paper is moved in its longitudinal direction. The label separator apparatus further has a label-rising restrictor located above the label being separated form the paper which contacts a rear end portion of the label which is being separated while the label rises together with the paper from the separating member, so that the label is prevented from being completely separated from the paper.

Abstract: A printer includes a platen roller and a print head for printing information on a recording medium moving between the platen roller and the head in a predetermined direction. The platen roller is supported by a supporting frame which is rotatably mounted on a supporting shaft so that the platen roller is rockable in directions to touch and leave the head. The platen roller is pressed against the head by an urging member. The platen roller is shifted in a direction in parallel to the moving direction by a shifting mechanism as the roller rocks, so that the position of the roller relative to the head is kept constant with respect to the moving direction of the recording medium.

Abstract: A label printer comprises a frame memory for storing a printing pattern for a label to be printed, and a printer unit for printing a label in accordance with the printing pattern stored in the frame memory. The label printer further comprises a control unit for partitioning the frame memory in accordance with a designated size of the label, thereby providing at least one print buffer, for producing a printing pattern for one label in the printing bufer, and for supplying the printing pattern stored in the print buffer to the printer unit, wherein the control unit includes a modifying section, and, when a plurality of print buffers are provided in the frame memory, the modifying section transfers the printing pattern produced in one of the print buffers into a remaining print buffer and modifies the printing pattern stored in the remaining print buffer to produce another printing pattern.

Abstract: In a printer having a platen, a print head disposed opposite to the platen, and a ribbon mask fixedly provided on the print head and having a masking plate provided with an aperture to expose only the front end of the print head to the platen, an ink ribbon is extended through a space between the platen and the print head, and the masking plate is disposed between the platen and the ink ribbon to shield a recording sheet wound round the platen from the ink ribbon. The aperture of the masking plate has inclined edges inclined to a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the print head so as to intersect a platen center obliquely. In case the side edge of a floating portion of the recording sheet is caught in the aperture of the masking plate while the print head is moved, the side edge slides along the inclined edge to escape from the aperture, so that the side edge is not caught in the aperture of the masking plate.

Abstract: A drive controller of the N-phase stepping motor includes a signal generator for generating M pulse signals at such an interval that the stepping motor can be driven in response to the pulse signals so as to rotate the stepping motor through an M step angle in one direction, and a driver for determining an exciting phase which is one step ahead of the current exciting phase as a next exciting phase in response to the pulse signal generated from the signal generator and exciting the stepping motor set in the thus determined exciting phase. In the drive controller, the signal generator generates pulse signals as a pulse signal group at such an interval that the stepping motor cannot respond to the pulse signals and repeatedly generates the pulse signal group by M times at such an interval that the stepping motor can be driven in response thereto so as to rotate the stepping motor in a reverse direction.

Abstract: The present invention is applied to an electrophotographic apparatus, wherein a photosensitive body charged by a charger is exposed to light emitted from an exposer, for the formation of an electrostatic latent image, and wherein the electrostatic latent iamge is developed by a developer and the image developed by the developer is transferred on a paper sheet by a transfer charger. The transfer charger of the apparatus is made up of a converter transformer, a switching circuit for controlling the excitation of the converter transformer, and an error detector, arranged in association with the converter transformer, for detecting an error voltage corresponding to a transfer voltage.

Abstract: A data read device includes a read window, and a read section for optically reading a bar code on an article passing across a limited space in front of the window, and for generating output data corresponding to the bar code. The read device further includes a processing circuit for detecting that the article has passed across the limited space, from one side of the window to the other, and cancelling the output data generated from the read section, upon detection of this movement.

Abstract: The inventive electrophotographic apparatus includes a photosensitive member unit fitted detachably to the main unit of apparatus. On the photosensitive member unit, a photosensitive member, exposure device, and a connector for connecting the exposure device to a drive circuit incorporated in the main unit are mounted, so that the relative position between the photosensitive member and exposure device does not need to be adjusted even after a jam treatment or the like.

Abstract: An electronic input-display apparatus, includes a casing having a microprocessor therein, a display device located above the casing and spaced from the casing by a predetermined distance, a data-input keyboard provided for the casing, a weighting section provided on the casing, and a radio transmitting/receiving device fitted in a pocket formed in the display device with an antenna extending upward from the display device. The microprocessor, the display device, the keyboard, the measuring section, and the radio transmitting/receiving device are electrically connected together.

Abstract: A postobjective optical scanner comprising a polygonal optical deflector having a plurality of reflecting surfaces each being a curved surface varying in curvature from position to position thereon; and a correcting lens disposed between the polygonal optical deflector and the objective surface on an optical path, and having a rotationally symmetric curved surface of incidence having a cross section having the shape of an arc of a circle with its center on the axis of rotational symmetry, rotationally symmetric with respect to a plane including the axis of rotation of the polygonal optical deflector and perpendicular to the axis of rotational symmetry and having its power in both the feed direction and the scanning direction, and a surface of departure symmetrical with respect to a plane perpendicular to the scanning direction and having its power in the scanning direction.

Abstract: A DRAM controller comprises an address output controller for transferring an address-designating signal to a dynamic RAM, a data output controller for transferring data to be written into and read-out from a memory region of the dynamic RAM which is designated by the address-designating signal, and a control circuit responsive to a mode-designating signal for generating various control signals corresponding to an access mode of the dynamic RAM designated by the mode-designating signal and for supplying control signals to the dynamic RAM, address output controller, and data output controller in a predetermined sequence.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sheet guide apparatus of the type that a recording sheet delivered by a rotary movement in peripheral contact between a fixing roller and a pressure roller drops by its own weight into an upper open-type sheet receiving unit disposed near a sheet delivery side of the pressure roller, and sheet delivery rollers or the like disposed on the sheet delivery side of a fixing apparatus are normally omitted, thereby permitting dimensional reduction of the apparatus and simplicity of its structure.

Abstract: The present invention uses heat-sensitive paper with an adhesive face and plural kinds of identification portions, arranged in the longitudinal direction, provided on the reverse thereof and has a feed portion setting up a relative motion between the heat-sensitive paper and a punch, which is driven by a drive portion for making a perforation in the heat-sensitive paper. It further has a drive timing changing means for changing timing of the drive of the drive portion during the relative motion according to the kind of the tag to be issued so that a perforation is made in a desired position of the heat-sensitive paper, whereby, when the tag after being issued is folded in two and its end portions are stuck together with adhesive, the identification portion looking out of the perforation is made to be the identification portion corresponding to the kind of the tag, and thus, the kind of the tag is made identifiable at a glance.