摘要:
A heat-sensitive recording head having heat generating elements arranged on an insulating substrate and a system for preheating said substrate and controlling the heat generated during the recording operation. In one embodiment the substrate is placed in contact with a larger heat sink which is heated by a carbon-type internal resistor, a printed circuit contacting resistor, or a conventional heater. A thermal sensor detects the temperature of the heat sink and is fed to controls for controlling the overall application of heat. In another embodiment the substrate is placed in contact with a Peltier effect device which controls heat generation and absorption.
摘要:
A copying machine includes an optical sensor of the line scanning type for converting an image into electrical signals, and a thermal recording head controlled in accordance with the image signals. The platen moves with respect to the read unit and the read unit will read in both forward and reverse directions of the platen, and the magnification value can be varied. The total width of energized heating elements and the movement length and speed of the platen may be controlled in accordance with the size of the original. The total number of heating elements energized at any one time is limited, and the machine includes input and output terminals for sending image information externally and for receiving and recording image information other than directly from the read unit.
摘要:
A multicolor recording apparatus includes a number of recording sections for applying different colors of inks. A main transport path travels through all recording sections, while bypass paths are provided for recording sheets which are to be recorded monochromatically, for example, so that any one or more of the recording sections may be bypassed. To eliminate wastage of ink donor sheet, the web containing the solid ink is not conveyed in recording sections bypassed by the sheet.
摘要:
In an image recording apparatus capable of recording a halftone image, a gradation to bit-train converting table converts gradation data representing a gradation of tone at a picture element of an image into bit-train data whose bit pattern is based on the gradation data. For the gradation data representing a gradation in excess of a threshold gradation, the table converts the gradation data into such bit-train data that bits of the bit-train data corresponding to the gradation data are intermittently omitted after a train of bits corresponding to the threshold gradation is outputted. A bit-train to pulse-train converting section converts the bit-train derived from the gradiation to bit-train converting table into pulse-train signal of a pulse pattern analogous to that of the bit-train data. The pulse signal of such a discontinuous pulse pattern is applied to a heating element of a thermal head, which is provided corresponding to the picture element whose gradation data is under process. A heating temperature of the heating element is controlled below a predetermined temperature.
摘要:
A multicolor reading device is provided with a high intensity illuminating light source and a plurality of filters sequentially arranged in front of the source to provide monochromatic light of differing hues. The light is transmitted from the source to the platen by optical fibers or the like which are bundled on the source side and arranged in a line at the platen.
摘要:
A plurality of image sensors cover overlapping regions and provide output signals which are selected during nonoverlapping times and combined into a synthetic video signal. The timing of all sensor selections except the first are keyed to the first so that adjustment of the first starting time can move the entire scanning interval.
摘要:
A stepping motor exciting system in which the excitation current is set at one of four stepwise values. When the motor is to be driven in a stepwise manner, the excitation current is in the form of a pseudo-trapezoidal wave which is derived in terms of two of possible four values. When the motor is to be driven in a linear manner, the excitation current is in the form of a pseudo-sinusoidal wave which is derived in terms of all four possible values. A ROM stores these sequences of excitation currents and controls the exciting system in accordance with the driving mode desired.
摘要:
An apparatus for exciting a step motor such as a step motor employed as a drive source for conveying original documents in a reading device such as a facsimile system. To vary the feed pitch in the auxiliary scanning direction of the original, staircase waveform exciting currents are applied through A-phase and B-phase exciting coils of the step motor. The apparatus of the invention provides for equal step sizes of the two waveforms and waveforms which are precise complements of one another. Currents flowing in the two exciting coils are sensed and voltages representing the sensed currents are divided in ratios determined by division ratio control signals read from a ROM. The divided signals are compared with a reference signal to provide pulse drive signals of constant currents during each step.
摘要:
A reading mechanism of a plane reading device is provided with a rack and pinion drive mechanism with a step motor as the driving source. Backlash and vibration are prevented by applying a biasing force on the reading mechanism in a direction opposite that of the movement thereof.
摘要:
A multicolor transfer heat-sensitive recording apparatus for thermally transfer-recording images onto a recording paper 1, comprises a first and a second thermal head for selectively heating ink donor sheets of different color, first and second drive feed units for drivingly feeding the recording paper and the ink donor sheets and a pulse generator for feeding pulses to the first and second drive feed units. The first and second drive feed units include first and second backing rollers, first and second stepping motors (such as synchronous inductor motors) drivingly connected to the backing rollers and first and second drivers for driving the stepping motors, respectively. The pulse generator simultaneously feeds for a predetermined duration a single pulse to the first driver for driving the first roller and a number of pulses to the second driver for driving the second roller. The number of pulses to the second driver being adjustable to possibly reduce a recording displacement due to dimensional differences of the rollers attendant to the first and the second thermal head.