Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tablet printing apparatus
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Application No.: US15963549Application Date: 2018-04-26
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Publication No.: US10220640B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Yasutsugu Tsuruoka , Hironori Haijima , Toru Kuribayashi , Yuki Umemura
- Applicant: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Yokohama-shi
- Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Yokohama-shi
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2017-088844 20170427; JP2018-063513 20180329
- Main IPC: B41J11/00
- IPC: B41J11/00 ; B65G15/58 ; B41J3/407

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a tablet printing apparatus includes: a conveyor belt including a suction hole to suck a tablet; and an ink jet print head configured to perform printing on the tablet; wherein the conveyor belt further includes a plurality of protrusions formed around the suction hole and configured to support the tablet in contact with the tablet, and a recess formed between the protrusions and communicated with the suction hole, each of the protrusions has a bottom surface, an upper surface, area of which is smaller than that of the bottom surface, and a side surface having an inclined surface, the protrusions support the tablet such that a gap is formed between a surface of the tablet on conveyor belt side and the suction hole, and a suction force is applied to the gap and space of the recess through the suction hole to suck the tablet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180311974A1 TABLET PRINTING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-11-01
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