Abstract:
A manufacturing method for a heating resistor element includes a concave portion forming step, a bonding step and a resistor forming step. The concave portion forming step includes forming a concave portion on at least one of bonded surfaces between an insulating substrate and a heat accumulating layer. The bonding step causes the bonded surfaces between the insulating substrate and the heat accumulating layer to adhere to each other to bond the insulating substrate and the heat accumulating layer. The resistor forming step includes forming a heating resistor at a position on the heat accumulating layer. The position is opposed to the concave portion. The concave portion forming step further includes processing an inner surface of the concave portion on a side of the insulating substrate to have surface roughness Ra of 0.2 μm or more.
Abstract:
A thermal printer has a support substrate with a concave portion in a surface thereof, and an upper substrate bonded to the surface of the support substrate and including a convex portion at a position corresponding to the concave portion. A heating resistor is provided on a surface of the upper substrate at a position straddling the convex portion. A pair of electrodes is provided on both sides of the heating resistor, with each of the electrodes being formed in a region outside of the convex portion. The convex portion extends at a height greater than each of the electrodes. At least one of the pair of electrodes has a thin portion connected to the heating resistor in a region corresponding to the concave portion, and a thick portion connected to the heating resistor and having a thickness greater than that of the thin portion.
Abstract:
A printing apparatus includes a printing unit for performing printing by pressing a thermal head onto heat sensitive paper to heat the heat sensitive paper. A battery supplies a voltage to the thermal head, and a battery voltage detecting unit detects the voltage. A printing control unit changes, according to the detected voltage, a power-off time in which power supply from the battery to the thermal head is stopped. The printing control unit calculates the power-off time based on the detected voltage and the resistance of the thermal head and shortens the power-off time as the detected voltage becomes lower thereby shortening the overall printing time without shortening the life of the heating resistance elements of the thermal head.
Abstract:
A thermal head includes a substrate main body including a flat plate-shaped support substrate and a flat plate-shaped upper substrate which are bonded to each other in a stacked state. A rectangular heating resistor is formed on a surface of the flat plate-shaped upper substrate. A bonding surface of the flat plate-shaped support substrate includes a concave portion that forms a cavity portion in a region opposed to the rectangular heating resistor and the concave portion includes a groove formed in an inner wall thereof and recessed along a depth direction of the concave portion within a range of a width of the rectangular heating resistor. The thermal head is capable of enhancing heat-insulating performance while maintaining mechanical strength of the upper substrate.
Abstract:
Provided is a heating resistor element (1), including: an insulating substrate (9); a heat accumulating layer (10) bonded to a surface of the insulating substrate (9); and a heating resistor (11) provided on the heat accumulating layer (10), in which: on at least one of bonded surfaces (9a) between the insulating substrate (9) and the heat accumulating layer (10), at least one of the insulating substrate (9) and the heat accumulating layer (10) is provided with a concave portion (16) in a region opposed to the heating resistor (11) to form a hollow portion (17); and the hollow portion (17) includes an inner surface on a side of the insulating substrate (9), the inner surface being processed to have surface roughness (Ra) of 0.2 μm or more. Accordingly, heat accumulation in a gas of the hollow portion (17) can be suppressed to improve printing quality.
Abstract:
Provided is an apparatus for producing a sheet material including: an RFID reader (11) for reading information froth an RFID tag; a sheet supply unit (12) for supplying the sheet material (4) having a heat-sensitive printing layer on one surface of a sheet-type base material, and having a heat-sensitive adhesive layer on the other surface of the sheet-type base material; a printing unit (13) for performing printing on the heat-sensitive printing layer of the sheet material (4) supplied from the sheet supply unit (12); a thermal activation unit (15) for heating the heat-sensitive adhesive layer of the sheet material (4), which is printed by the printing unit (13), to develop an adhesive force of the heat-sensitive adhesive layer; and a control unit (16) for controlling the thermal activation unit (15) to develop the adhesive force in a predetermined area of the heat-sensitive adhesive layer other than an area facing the RFID tag so as to form an adhesive area to be attached to the article, and for controlling the printing unit (13) to print predetermined information on the heat-sensitive printing layer, based on the information read from the RFID tag by the RFID reader (11), thereby making it possible to match information of the tag with information printed on the sheet material with reliability, and to simply attach the tag to the article.
Abstract:
Provided is a thermal head including an intermediate layer between a support substrate and an upper substrate, which is capable of suppressing heat dissipation toward the support substrate while maintaining printing quality. Employed is a thermal head (1) including: an upper substrate (5); a support substrate (3) bonded in a stacked state on one surface side of the upper substrate (5); a heating resistor (7) provided on another surface side of the upper substrate (5); and an intermediate layer (6) including a concave portion that forms a cavity portion (4) in a region corresponding to the heating resistor (7), the intermediate layer (6) being provided between the upper substrate (5) and the support substrate (3), in which the intermediate layer (6) is formed of a plate-shaped glass material having a lower melting point than melting points of the upper substrate (5) and the support substrate (3).
Abstract:
A heating resistor element component has supporting substrate with a concave portion formed in a surface of the supporting substrate. A glass substrate is disposed on the surface of the supporting substrate. At least a region of the glass substrate opposite to the concave portion of the support substrate has a heterogeneous phase structure with physical properties different from those of the material of the glass substrate such that an overall mechanical strength of the glass substrate is increased. The heterogeneous phase structure is formed by laser processing using a phemtosecond laser having a power intensity of 1×106 W to 1×108 W. Heating resistors are arranged at intervals on the glass substrate and have heating portions disposed opposite to the concave portion of the supporting substrate. A common wire is connected to one end of each of the heating resistors. Individual wires are each connected to another end of each of the heating resistors.
Abstract:
To improve print quality, a plurality of heating resistors (14) are arranged with spaces therebetween on a heat storage layer (13) laminated on a surface of a supporting substrate (11) via an adhesive layer (12) made of an elastic material. A cavity portion (19) is formed at a region between the supporting substrate (11) and the heat storage layer (13), the region being opposed to a heat generating portion of each of the plurality of heating resistors (14). The elastic material constituting the adhesive layer (12) is arranged so that the elastic material is in a bonded state with respect to at least a part of a surface of the heat storage layer (13) opposed to the cavity portion (19).
Abstract:
To improve heat generating efficiency and printing quality, a plurality of heating resistors (14) are arranged with spaces therebetween on a heat storage layer (13) laminated on a surface of a supporting substrate (11) via an adhesive layer (12) made of an elastic material. A cavity section (19) is formed at a region between the supporting substrate (11) and the heat storage layer (13), the region being opposed to a heat generating portion of each of the plurality of heating resistors (14). The cavity section (19) includes a concave portion (20) formed in the surface of the supporting substrate (11) and the heat storage layer (13) in which the concave portion (20) is closed and the surface thereof is exposed to the cavity section (19).