Abstract: A method for manufacturing edge emission type EL device arrays is disclosed. The method initially involves depositing a first and a second lower electrode layer of different properties. The second lower electrode layer is patterned into a common electrode arrangement conductive to a plurality of edge emission type EL devices. On top of the first and second lower electrode layers, an EL device layer and an upper electrode layer are deposited. The first lower electrode layer is patterned together with the EL device layer and upper electrode layer into a plurality of edge emission type EL devices. The parts ranging from the top edge of the light-emitting edges for the EL devices to the inside of the substrate are etched. This provides a highly smooth light-emitting edge for each EL device.

Abstract: A label printer comprises a supporting frame having a pair of side plates facing each other. A platen roller and a head unit having a print head are arranged between the side plates. A supporting shaft extends parallel to the platen roller and has one end fixed to one of the side plates and a free end adjacent to the other side plate. The head unit is supported on the supporting shaft and located in an operative position wherein the print head is opposite to the platen roller. The head unit is slidable from the operative position to the outside of the supporting frame along the supporting shaft. The free end of the shaft and the head unit in the operative position is fixed by a fixing member mounted on the other side plate.

Abstract: A printing head supporting device including a supporting mechanism for supporting a printing head so that the printing head can be brought into contact with and separation from a platen, and a pressure plate detachably mounted to a printer body. When the pressure plate is mounted to the printer body, the printing head is maintained in contact with the platen to obtain a printable condition. In contrast, when the pressure plate is detached from the printer body, the printing head is maintained in separation from the platen, so that an operator can easily carry out a maintenance work such as cleaning of the printing head or removing of a recording paper caught between the printing head and the platen. Thus, the maintenance work can be easily carried out by a simple operation such that the pressure plate is simply detached from the printer body.

Abstract: The stacker for stacking sets of cards comprises a container for receiving a set of boarding passes and a stacking section for stacking these boarding passes in the container in the fixed orientation. In the stacker, the container has first and second walls opposing each other, and the stacking section includes a first ejecting portion for ejecting the boarding pass into the container from the second wall side, such that front of the boarding pass faces the first wall, a second ejecting portion for ejecting the boarding passes into the container from the first wall side, such that the back of the boarding pass faces the second wall, and a feeder for supplying the passes to one of the first and second ejecting portions sequentially.

Abstract: An information output projection of a handy terminal is adapted to engage an information input hole of a data processing device. A light shutting out member is provided between an opening of the information input hole and an information receiving element in the data processing device. The light shutting out member is adapted to be opened by a depression force of the information output projection when the information output projection is inserted from the opening of the information input hole thereinto. Accordingly, malfunction of the device due to entry of optical noise from the opening of the information input hole is prevented.

Abstract: A printer comprises a first sheet feed mechanism comprising a first transportation unit and a first sheet container, and a second sheet feed mechanism comprising a second transportation unit and a second sheet container. A sheet fed from the second sheet container is transported by the second transportation unit to the first transportation unit. The insertion of a sheet fed from the second sheet container into the first transportation unit is detected by a sheet detector. The feed speed of the second transportation unit is adjusted to a feed speed higher than that of the first transportation unit before the sheet detector detects the leading edge of a sheet fed from the second sheet container. The feed speed of the second transportation unit is adjusted to a feed speed not higher than that of the first transportaton unit upon the detection of the leading edge of the sheet fed from the second sheet container by the sheet detector.

Abstract: An optical document reader which uses a document keeper to hold a document in place on a document table and which moves an optical unit in the secondary scanning direction along a shaft for optically reading the document. The shaft is supported by a support member which rotates around one end of a support shaft and along the document table. The support member, externally rotated by an adjusting mechanism, is rotatably released by a clutch mechanism. A support member returning mechanism returns the support member to its home position when the member is rotatably released by the clutch mechanism. If the side edge of the document is inclined against that of the document table, the adjusting mechanism rotates the support member to align the optical unit with the document in the secondary scanning direction. When the clutch mechanism rotatably releases the support member afterwards, the support member returning mechanism accurately returns the member to its home position.

Abstract: An electrophotographic printing apparatus includes a paper supplying mechanism for supplying recording paper, and a transferring section for charging the recording paper supplied from the paper supplying mechanism by means of a transferring voltage and for transferring development material adhered to the surface of a charging body of the apparatus to the charged recording paper. The electrophotographic printing device further includes a transferring voltage control section for controlling the transferring voltage level according to the type of the recording paper.

Abstract: A dot printer head including a housing that contains electromagnets toward its back end, the electromagnets having cores positioned opposite to armatures which are supported detachably against the core. The housing slidingly supports needles connected to the armatures and pushed in retracting direction thereof. An armature stopper made of an elastic substance is fixedly attahced to the inside of a cover which closes the opening at the back end of the housing, the armature stopper being in contact with the vicinities of the free ends of the armatures. A spacer is made of a substance with a linear expansion coefficient such as to ensure the same expansion as that of the armature stopper in thickness, the spacer connecting the inside of the cover to the opening edge of the housing. In this setup, when the armature stopper extends in thickness in keeping with the temperature rise inside the housing during printing, the spacer expands by exactly the same thickness to retract the cover.

Abstract: An electrophotographic apparatus is provided with a self-scanning exposure device comprising a case having a shape substantially resembling the letter L, a linear light emitting head formed by linearly arranging a plurality of light emitting elements and disposed in one section of the case, and a printed wiring board having a driving circuit for driving the linear light emitting head and disposed in the other section of the case. The substantially L-shaped case containing the components of the self-scanning exposure device requires a space having a relatively small size with respect to the radial direction of photoconductive means for installation, so that the electrophotographic apparatus can be formed in a compart construction.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printer with a sheet feeding apparatus having a printer body incorporating a printing mechanism for printing onto continuous forms. A cutter is provided close to a continuous forms discharging port on the printer case. Following the cutter downstream, there is provided a sheet feeding belt that rotates at a rate higher than the feed rate of the continuous forms. Along the belt, there are provided a sheet traversing section, a sheet direction changing section, a sheet pushing section and a sheet stacker, in that order from upstream to downstream. The sheet traversing section seizes and feeds horizontally each sheet cut by the cutter. The sheet direction changing section perpendicularly changes the feed direction of each cut sheet. The sheet pushing section pushes each sheet onto the sheet stacker where an orderly stack of sheets is formed.

Abstract: When a specified head energizing pulse interval involves a decimal fraction, the fraction is accumulated at every printing, and when the cumulative value of the fraction is smaller than one pulse, a printing head is driven at a pulse interval of an integer part obtained by subtracting the fraction, and when the cumulative value of the fraction has reached one pulse, the printing head is driven at a pulse interval of an integer obtained by adding one pulse to the above head energizing pulse interval.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printer with a sheet feeding apparatus having a printer body incorporating a printing mechanism for printing onto continuous forms. A cutter is provided close to a continuous forms discharging port on the printer case. Following the cutter downstream, there is provided a sheet feeding belt that rotates at a rate higher than the feed rate of the continuous forms. Along the belt, there are provided a sheet traversing section, a sheet direction changing section, a sheet pushing section and a sheet stacker, in that order from upstream to downstream. The sheet traversing section seizes and feeds horizontally each sheet cut by the cutter. The sheet direction changing section perpendicularly changes the feed direction of each cut sheet. The sheet pushing section pushes each sheet onto the sheet stacker where an orderly stack of sheets is formed.

Abstract: A thermal printer includes a support frame and a head frame supported by the support frame. A line thermal head is attached to the head frame. A platen unit is mounted on the support frame and includes a platen roller opposing the thermal head and a pair of support members supporting both ends of the platen roller. The support members are arranged to be rotatable so that the platen roller is movable between a contact position where the roller contacts the thermal head and a separate position where the roller is set apart from the thermal head. A pressing mechanism is provided on the platen unit so as to press the platen roller onto the thermal head at a predetermined pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus for inputting commodity data including a bar code scanner having a reading window on a front surface thereof, a keyboard for inputting the commodity data which keyboard is supported at an upper portion of the bar code scanner, a cashier's display and a supporting member for rotatably supporting the bar code scanner in such a manner that the bar code scanner can be rotated about a horizontal pivotal axis. The bar code scanner can be rotated according to the kind of a commodity or the height of a cashier. Accordingly, a bar code of the commodity can be placed to a laser beam scanning area by the cashier in a natural posture, and can be read by the bar code scanner reliably and easily.

Abstract: A slip storing apparatus for storing slips successively issued by a slip issuing machine. The slip storing apparatus comprises: a conveying mechanism for conveying slips issued by the slip issuing machine in one direction, and a slip storing unit having a slip support surface for supporting slips at their lower edges, declined to the rear at an angle to a horizontal plane, and a movable slip holding member having a slip holding surface substantially perpendicular to the slip support surface and supported for movement along a plane including the slip support surface.

Abstract: A point of sale-data processing apparatus has a handy type optical scanner for reading a bar code attached or marked on a product. The apparatus performs a predetermined process of sales with regard to the product in accordance with product information previously recorded and corresponding to the read bar code. A scanner holding recess for detachably holding the optical scanner is provided at the outer surface of a main body housing of the apparatus, on which various enter keys and a display panel are provided. The scanner held in the recess orients a bar code read window thereof toward the outside of the recess.

Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a step motor for feeding paper in a paper feed direction, an interface for inputting printing data including bar code data, an image buffer for storing bit image data representing at least first and second bar codes which correspond to the same bar code data input by the interface, a thermal head having a row of heating elements perpendicular to the paper feed direction for printing the bit image data stored in the image buffer in units of lines on the paper, and a control circuit for driving the step motor to feed the paper in order to print the bit image data, and for driving the thermal head each time the paper is fed by a preset amount.