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20130064593 | HALF-CUT DEVICE, TAPE PRINTER INCLUDING THE SAME, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR STEPPING MOTOR - A half-cut device including: a half cutter for cutting a main tape or a released tape of a processed tape which the released tape is affixed to the main tape; a stepping motor for driving the half cutter to cut; and a motor control unit for controlling the stepping motor, wherein the motor control unit controls the stepping motor to maintain the condition which the half cutter cuts the main tape or the released tape for a predetermined time. | 03-14-2013 |
20130193902 | DRIVING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS HAVING DRIVING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DRIVING APPARATUS - A driving apparatus including: a stepping motor configuring a drive source; an operating portion configured to reciprocate corresponding to forward and reverse rotations of the stepping motor; a home position detecting unit configured to detect a home position which corresponds to an outward movement starting position and a homeward movement terminating position of the operating portion; a homeward movement detecting unit configured to detect the driving amount of the stepping motor in a homeward movement of the operating portion from a start of the homeward movement of the operating portion driven by the stepping motor until a detection of the home position by the home position detecting unit; and an operation determining unit configured to determine that the operating portion is not operated normally when the driving amount detected by the homeward movement detecting unit is smaller than a predetermined driving amount. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195535 | MEDIUM FEEDER AND PRINTER INCLUDING THE SAME - A medium feeder includes a first rotation body; a second rotation body which engages with the first rotation body while overlapping with the first rotation body, and disengages from the first rotation body in response to the presence of the feed target medium nipped between the first and second rotation bodies; a rotation body support member which supports the second rotation body, and is configured to be movable between an advancing position where the second rotation body engages with the first rotation body and a retreating position where the second rotation body disengages from the first rotation body; and a detection unit which detects migration of the rotation body support member to the retreating position. | 08-01-2013 |
20130202342 | TAPE PRINTER AND TAPE PRINTER CONTROL METHOD - A tape printer including: a printing unit which performs printing on a tape-shaped printing medium having a plurality of layers; a half cutter mechanism which has a stepping motor and cuts a part of the layers of the tape-shaped printing medium after printing using a driving force of the stepping motor; and a control unit which varies driving current supplied to the stepping motor in accordance with types of the tape-shaped printing medium. | 08-08-2013 |
20150124041 | TAPE CARTRIDGE AND TAPE PRINTER - A tape cartridge | 05-07-2015 |
20150174926 | TAPE PRINTING APPARATUS - A tape printing apparatus includes: a feed unit configured to feed a tape-like member having a printing tape to be printed and a release tape adhered to the printing tape; a half cutter having a cutting blade configured to cut into the tape-like member and a blade receiving member configured to receive the cutting blade cut into the tape-like member, and configured to cut one of the printing tape and the release tape in a width direction; and a downstream-side restricting portion provided on the downstream side of the feeding direction of the tape-like member, and configured to restrict the movement of the cutting blade cutting into the tape-like member in the downstream side of the feeding direction of the cutting blade. | 06-25-2015 |