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| 2C065 | THERMAL PRINTER STRUCTURES | |
| B41J2/315 -2/345@Z;2/42-2/425,101@Z;2/475-2/48 | ||
| B41J2/32@B;2/32@C;2/32@J;2/32@Z;2/325@A;2/325@C;2/325@F;2/325@Z;2/33;2/425,101@A-2/425,101@Z;2/475@Z | AA | AA00 SCANNING TYPE |
AA01 | AA02 | AA03 | AA04 | AA05 | AA06 | AA07 | AA08 | ||
| . Line types | . Serial types | . . Bidirectional recording | . Shuttle types | . Character or plate types | . . Segment types | . Matrix types | . Pen types excluding those covered by 108C | |||||
| AB | AB00 COLOUR FORMING TYPE |
AB01 | AB02 | AB03 | AB04 | AB05 | AB06 | AB07 | AB08 | AB09 | AB10 | |
| . Heat sensitive paper types | . Ink transfer types | . . Ink ribbons excluding those covered by 117A | . . Ink belts | . . Ink rollers excluding those covered by 117B | . . . Ink-integrated rollers | . . having ink-holding holes | . . recording paper per se being ink carriers | . . Intermediate transfer bodies | . . Sublimation-type ink | |||
| AB11 | ||||||||||||
| . . using toner i.e. powder | ||||||||||||
| AC | AC00 RECORDING PURPOSE |
AC01 | AC02 | AC03 | AC04 | |||||||
| . Colour recording excluding those covered by 117C | . Shade recording | . equalising shades | . Others (purposes) | |||||||||
| AD | AD00 USE |
AD01 | AD02 | AD03 | AD04 | AD05 | AD06 | AD07 | ||||
| . Ticket vending machines | . Label printers | . Hand-held printers | . Measuring devices recorders or plotting machines | . Copying machines | . Facsimile machines | . Others (use) | ||||||
| AE | AE00 RECORDING METHOD OR DEVICE |
AE01 | AE02 | AE03 | AE04 | AE05 | AE06 | AE07 | AE08 | |||
| . Use of light excluding those covered by 109A | . Use of magnetic forces | . Use of electric fields | . Current-carrying types excluding those covered by 109B or 117F | . Ink-jet types | . with preheating excluding those covered by 109J | . having fixing means excluding those covered by 109J | . having cooling means excluding those covered by 109C or 109Z | |||||
| AF | AF00 MEDIUM PER SE * |
AF01 | AF02 | AF03 | ||||||||
| . Recording media * | . Transfer media * | . recording media and transfer media being integrated * | ||||||||||
| B41J2/425,101@A;2/425,101@C;2/425,101@Z | BA | BA00 DISCHARGE BREAKDOWN TYPE, EXCLUDING DRIVING |
BA01 | BA02 | BA03 | BA04 | BA05 | BA06 | BA07 | BA08 | BA09 | BA10 |
| . Structures or manufacturing methods of heads * | . . Electrodes or holders * | . . . Electrodes per se * | . . . Drum types | . . . Flexible substrates | . . . Layered types | . . . Stacked types | . . . Embedded types | . . . Manufacturing methods * | . . Supports * | |||
| BA11 | BA12 | BA13 | BA14 | BA15 | BA16 | BA17 | BA18 | BA19 | ||||
| . . . Detachable mechanisms * | . . . Belt scanning or rotating scanning * | . . Structures of conductors * | . . Return electrodes * | . Others (purposes) * | . . Recording methods or devices * | . . . Electrolytic types | . . Handling of recording media * | . . Driving control * | ||||
| B41J2/425,101@B | BB | BB00 DISCHARGE BREAKDOWN TYPE (DRIVING) |
BB01 | BB02 | BB03 | |||||||
| . Driving or control (purposes) * | . . Control of driving energy (purposes) * | . . Time division driving (purposes) * | ||||||||||
| B41J2/475@Z | CA | CA00 OPTICAL-THERMAL TYPE |
CA01 | CA02 | CA03 | CA04 | CA05 | CA06 | CA07 | CA08 | CA09 | CA10 |
| . Irradiation devices * | . . Radiation and generating devices thereof * | . . . Lasers * | . . . Infra-red rays * | . . Control devices * | . Heating methods * | . . Direct heating types | . . . having light-heat converters | . . Photoelectric types | . Recording methods or means * | |||
| CA11 | CA12 | CA13 | ||||||||||
| . . Combined use types with heating means | . . Surface-stripping types | . Others (purposes) * | ||||||||||
| B41J2/32@B;2/325@F | CB | CB00 CONDUCTING TYPE |
CB01 | CB02 | CB03 | CB04 | CB05 | CB06 | CB07 | CB08 | CB09 | CB10 |
| . Structures or manufacturing methods of electrodes * | . . Recording electrode heads * | . . . Pin-shaped electrodes | . . . . Holding structures of electrodes * | . . . other than pin-shaped electrodes | . . . . Drum types | . . . being layered | . . . . Disposition at the centre of planes | . . . Special dot disposition | . . Return electrodes * | |||
| CB11 | CB12 | CB13 | CB14 | CB15 | CB16 | CB17 | CB18 | CB19 | ||||
| . . Electrodes integrated with recording and return types | . . Supporting structures of electrode heads * | . ribbon-related * | . Recording methods or devices * | . . Conductive heating sheets | . . Disposition of return electrodes on the opposite side of recording electrodes | . Driving or control (purposes) * | . . Driving energy control (purposes) * | . Others (purposes) * | ||||
| B41J2/32@C | CC | CC00 MECHANISM FOR HOLDING OR ACTUATING HEAD |
CC01 | CC02 | CC03 | CC04 | CC05 | CC06 | CC07 | CC08 | CC09 | CC10 |
| . head-related * | . . Substrates or heads per se or structures of supporting or mounting thereof * | . . . detachable | . . undetachable | . . Attachment or detachment | . . . Means | . . . . manually operated | . . . . Magnets | . . . . Cams | . . . Head units | |||
| CC11 | CC12 | CC13 | CC14 | CC15 | CC16 | CC17 | CC18 | CC19 | CC20 | |||
| . . . Selection between two rows of heads | . . Pressure switching with driving sources | . . Adjustment without driving sources | . . . Automatic adjustment | . . . Manual adjustment | . . . Parallel degrees or alignment inside head surfaces | . . . Pressure adjustment of entire heads | . . . Equalisation of head pressure | . . . Platen adjustment | . . Head feeding * | |||
| CC21 | CC22 | CC23 | CC24 | CC25 | CC26 | CC27 | CC28 | CC29 | CC30 | |||
| . . . Head return * | . . Driving of head elements * | . recorded medium-related * | . . Paper-feeding operations * | . . Platens * | . . . Platens per se * | . . . Attachment or detachment of platens * | . . Detachable rollers * | . . Pressers * | . . Guides * | |||
| CC31 | CC32 | CC33 | ||||||||||
| . . Pressers or guides mounted on heads * | . Other mechanisms operations or control (purposes) * | . . Interlocking relationship to others * | ||||||||||
| B41J2/32@J | CJ | CJ00 PRE-TREATMENT OR AFTER-TREATMENT |
CJ01 | CJ02 | CJ03 | CJ04 | CJ05 | CJ06 | CJ07 | CJ08 | CJ09 | |
| . Pre-treatment | . After-treatment | . being treated by heat | . . Recording by light | . Treatment by light | . Application of materials for recording | . by pressure | . Coatings | . Others (purpose) * | ||||
| B41J2/32@Z | CZ | CZ00 OTHER STRUCTURE OR CONTROL |
CZ01 | CZ02 | CZ03 | CZ04 | CZ05 | CZ06 | CZ07 | CZ08 | CZ09 | CZ10 |
| . Recording control (circuits) (purposes) * | . . Recorded data processing (purposes) * | . . Driving energy control (purposes) * | . . . Driving timing (purposes) * | . Handling of paper * | . . Paper feeding * | . . . Speed control * | . . Platens per se * | . . Cutting * | . head-related * | |||
| CZ11 | CZ12 | CZ13 | CZ14 | CZ15 | CZ16 | CZ17 | CZ18 | |||||
| . . Head feeding * | . . Head attachment or detachment * | . Recording methods or devices * | . Others (purposes) * | . . Cooling or heat discharge * | . . Cleaning (F-term) * | . . Detectors (objects to be detected) * | . . Processing during abnormal conditions (abnormal conditions) * | |||||
| B41J2/325@A | DA | DA00 HEAT SENSITIVE TRANSFER TYPE |
DA01 | DA02 | DA03 | DA04 | DA05 | DA06 | DA07 | DA08 | DA09 | DA10 |
| . head-related * | . . Head operations * | . . . Head attachment or detachment * | . . . . Head units | . . . Feeding in a forward direction * | . . . Feeding in a return direction * | . . Structures of heads * | . . Driving of head elements * | . . . Recorded data processing * | . ribbon-related * | |||
| DA11 | DA12 | DA13 | DA14 | DA15 | DA16 | DA17 | DA18 | DA19 | DA20 | |||
| . . Detectors * | . . Forward feeding or winding * | . . Reverse feeding * | . . Up-and-down shift * | . . Rollers * | . . Cassettes and mounting or replacement thereof * | . . designed for economy | . . Forward and reverse recording | . . Deletion of residual information or reproduction * | . . Prevention of tension bias wrinkling or vibration * | |||
| DA21 | DA22 | DA23 | DA24 | DA25 | DA26 | DA27 | DA28 | DA29 | DA30 | |||
| . . usable a plurality of times | . . Other mechanisms operations or control * | . paper feed-related * | . . Detectors * | . . Operations * | . . . Paper-feeding operations * | . . . opening or closing platen units | . . Mechanisms * | . . . Mechanisms around platens * | . Stripping * | |||
| DA31 | DA32 | DA33 | DA34 | DA35 | DA36 | DA37 | DA38 | |||||
| . . Operations * | . . Mechanisms * | . Recording methods or devices * | . . also recording on heat sensitive paper * | . . Ink jets * | . Other mechanisms operations or control (purposes) * | . . Interlocking relationship to others * | . . Detectors (objects to be detected) * | |||||
| B41J2/325@C | DC | DC00 COLOUR RECORDING |
DC01 | DC02 | DC03 | DC04 | DC05 | DC06 | DC07 | DC08 | DC09 | DC10 |
| . head-related * | . . Recording control (purposes) * | . . . Driving energy control (purposes) | . . A plurality of heads | . ribbon-related * | . . Kinds of ribbons * | . . . Series-type ribbons (a free word combined with F-term: Meandering types) | . . . Parallel-type ribbons | . . . without multicolour printing | . . . A plurality of single-colour ribbons | |||
| DC11 | DC12 | DC13 | DC14 | DC15 | DC16 | DC17 | DC18 | DC19 | DC20 | |||
| . . . Ribbons of colour layers stacking types or multi-colour layers including types | . . . Multiple use type ribbons | . . Control * | . . . Control for saving ribbons | . . Mechanisms * | . . . Inclined line feed | . . . Shift mechanisms | . . Detectors | . paper-related * | . . Kinds of paper * | |||
| DC21 | DC22 | DC23 | DC24 | DC25 | DC26 | DC27 | DC28 | DC29 | DC30 | |||
| . . . sheet-like | . . . . Winding types or recirculation types | . . . Continuous paper | . . . Colour layers stacking types or multi-colour layers including types | . . Control * | . . . Reciprocating transfer | . . Mechanisms * | . . . around platens * | . Recording methods or devices * | . . Types using both transfer types and heat sensitive colouring types | |||
| DC31 | DC32 | DC33 | ||||||||||
| . . Structures for not recording unwanted colours | . Others * | . . Processing of seams or borders | ||||||||||
| B41J2/325@Z | DZ | DZ00 OTHER TRANSFER TYPE |
DZ01 | DZ02 | DZ03 | DZ04 | DZ05 | DZ06 | DZ07 | DZ08 | DZ09 | DZ10 |
| . Ink storage and supply devices * | . . Tanks having openings on recording parts | . . . having openings for discharging selected ink | . . Ink platens | . . Ink storage mechanisms * | . . Ink supply or regenerating mechanisms * | . . . Ink smoothing * | . . Ink carriers * | . Recording methods or devices * | . Driving or control (purposes) * | |||
| DZ11 | DZ12 | |||||||||||
| . . Control of driving energy (purposes) * | . Others (purposes) * | |||||||||||
| B41J2/335;2/335,101@A-2/335,101@Z;2/345@A-2/345@Z | GA | GA00 ARRANGEMENT OF HEATING ELEMENT |
GA01 | GA02 | GA03 | GA04 | GA05 | GA06 | GA07 | |||
| . Line types | . Serial types | . Matrix types | . Shuttle types | . Character or plate types | . . Segment types | . Pen types | ||||||
| GB | GB00 DISPOSITION OF HEATING ELEMENT |
GB01 | GB02 | GB03 | GB04 | GB05 | ||||||
| . Disposition on end surfaces on flat plate surfaces | . Continuous resistors excluding those covered by 113D | . Disposition on flat plate end surfaces | . Disposition on curved surfaces | . . Disposition on entire cylindrical surfaces | ||||||||
| GC | GC00 PURPOSE OF STRUCTURE OF THERMAL HEAD |
GC01 | GC02 | GC03 | GC04 | GC05 | ||||||
| . Shading recording | . Uniformity of density or dot diameters | . . Seams | . . Centre and ends | . Prevention of dot gaps or white streaks | ||||||||
| B41J2/335;2/335,101@A;2/335,101@B;2/335,101@Z | HA | HA00 THERMAL HEAD |
HA01 | HA02 | HA03 | HA04 | HA05 | HA06 | HA07 | HA08 | HA09 | HA10 |
| . Structures of heating elements * | . . Linear heating elements | . . Plate-like heating elements excluding layered films | . . being heated | . . forming convex heating parts | . . Two-layered resistive layers | . . Three- or more layered resistive layers | . Heater substrates or bases * | . Substrates or bases for mounting or supporting * | . Heat dischargers * | |||
| HA11 | HA12 | HA13 | HA14 | HA15 | HA16 | HA17 | HA18 | HA19 | HA20 | |||
| . Structures or treatment of mounting connection or adhesion * | . . Borders * | . . detachable | . . Prevention of warping flattening or equalisation of pressure * | . . Adjustment of parallelism or positioning | . Structures of conductors * | . . Diodes driving structures or the like | . . Embedded types | . . Connections * | . . . using cables * | |||
| HA21 | HA22 | HA23 | HA24 | HA25 | HA26 | HA27 | HA28 | HA29 | ||||
| . . . Multilayer wiring | . Temperature control * | . . Temperature sensors | . . Cooling means * | . . . Peltier devices | . Others (purposes) * | . . Paper guides or pressers * | . . Protective mechanisms * | . . Special uses (uses) | ||||
| B41J2/335,101@A | JA | JA00 RESISTOR MATERIAL |
JA01 | JA02 | JA03 | JA04 | JA05 | JA06 | JA07 | JA08 | JA09 | JA10 |
| . Materials | . . Combinations of two elements | . . Combinations of three elements | . . One element or combinations of four or more elements | . . Cermets | . . Tantalum | . . Chromium | . . Nickel | . . Boron | . . Carbon | |||
| JA11 | JA12 | JA13 | JA14 | JA15 | JA16 | JA17 | JA18 | JA19 | ||||
| . . Nitrogen | . . Oxygen | . . Silicon | . . Platinum-group elements e.g. ruthenium | . . Others [materials] | . Manufacturing methods | . . Formation of thick films | . . Adjustment or stabilisation of resistance values | . Others (purpose) * | ||||
| B41J2/335,101@C | JC | JC00 SUBSTRATE OR GLAZE LAYER |
JC01 | JC02 | JC03 | JC04 | JC05 | JC06 | JC07 | JC08 | JC09 | JC10 |
| . Structures of substrates * | . . Partial protrusions | . . Recesses or notched parts on resistor sides | . . Recesses or notched parts on heat discharging sides | . . Recording from substrate sides | . Substrate materials or manufacturing methods [materials] [manufacturing methods] | . . Conductors | . Structures of glaze layers * | . . Entire glaze layers other than plane layers | . . Partial glaze layers | |||
| JC11 | JC12 | JC13 | JC14 | |||||||||
| . . Two or more glaze layers | . Glaze layer materials or manufacturing methods [materials] [manufacturing methods] * | . Others (purposes) * | . . Special layers on or under glaze layers or substrates (purposes) | |||||||||
| B41J2/335,101@D;2/335,101@J | JD | JD00 INTERMEDIATE LAYER |
JD01 | JD02 | JD03 | JD04 | JD05 | JD06 | JD07 | JD08 | JD09 | JD10 |
| . Structures * | . . Convex layers | . . . Wear-resistant layers or protective layers | . . . Resistors | . . . Glaze layers | . . . Substrates | . . Positions of other convex layers or intermediate layers | . . . Upper layers of resistors | . . . Lower layers of resistors | . . . Layers between or around resistive elements | |||
| JD11 | JD12 | JD13 | JD14 | JD15 | JD16 | JD17 | JD18 | |||||
| . . Partial layers | . . Entire surface layers | . Materials | . Manufacturing methods * | . Purposes | . . Heat storage | . . Heat discharge or heat transfer | . Protection or barriers | |||||
| B41J2/335,101@E | JE | JE00 ELECTRODE |
JE01 | JE02 | JE03 | JE04 | JE05 | JE06 | JE07 | JE08 | JE09 | JE10 |
| . Materials | . . Gold | . . Copper | . . Aluminium | . . Nickel | . . Chromium | . . Silver or platinum | . . Others [materials] | . Resistor materials [materials] | . Structures | |||
| JE11 | JE12 | JE13 | JE14 | JE15 | JE16 | JE17 | JE18 | JE19 | ||||
| . . One-layer structures | . . Two-layer structures | . . Three or more layers | . . Thin films | . . Thick films | . . Layers or elements with special functions * | . . Conductor connections or multilayered wiring * | . Manufacturing methods (manufacturing methods) | . . Plating (F-term) "electroless" | ||||
| B41J2/335,101@F | JF | JF00 WEAR-RESISTANT LAYER OR PROTECTIVE LAYER |
JF01 | JF02 | JF03 | JF04 | JF05 | JF06 | JF07 | JF08 | JF09 | JF10 |
| . Number of layers | . . One layer | . . Two layers | . Purposes | . . Prevention of wear | . . Prevention of oxidation | . . Protection | . . Protection of electrodes | . Materials | . . Tantalum oxides | |||
| JF11 | JF12 | JF13 | JF14 | JF15 | JF16 | JF17 | JF18 | JF19 | JF20 | |||
| . . Silicon oxides | . . Silicon nitrides | . . Aluminium oxides | . . Silicon carbide | . . Tungsten nickel titanium or chromium | . . Oxygen nitrogen carbon boron and phosphorus other than above | . . Glass | . . Plastics or resins | . . Others (purposes) [materials] | . Resistor materials (F-term) [materials] | |||
| JF21 | ||||||||||||
| . Manufacturing methods | ||||||||||||
| B41J2/335,101@H | JH | JH00 MANUFACTURING METHOD |
JH01 | JH02 | JH03 | JH04 | JH05 | JH06 | JH07 | JH08 | JH09 | JH10 |
| . Target structures * | . . Heating parts * | . . Multilayered wiring parts * | . . Target layers * | . . . Substrates or glaze layers * | . . . Resistive layers * | . . . Conductive layers * | . . . Protective layers or wear-resistant layers * | . Manufacturing processes * | . . Photoetching * | |||
| JH11 | JH12 | JH13 | JH14 | JH15 | JH16 | JH17 | JH18 | JH19 | ||||
| . . Vapour deposition or sputtering i.e. formation of thin films * | . . Printing i.e. formation of thick films * | . . Plating soldering or bonding * | . . Heating heat treatment baking or oxidation * | . . Cutting separation or grinding * | . . Assembly * | . . . Positioning * | . . . Adhesion or welding * | . . Resistance value adjustment * | ||||
| B41J2/345@A | KA | KA00 PLANE SHAPE OF HEATER |
KA01 | KA02 | KA03 | KA04 | KA05 | KA06 | KA07 | KA08 | KA09 | KA10 |
| . Disposition or shapes * | . . Meandering types | . . Parallel disposition of a plurality of parts | . . having openings | . . Oblique shapes | . . having different resistance values * | . . . Thickness variations * | . . . Variations based on shapes * | . . related to scanning * | . . Special structures of conductors * | |||
| KA11 | KA12 | KA13 | KA14 | KA15 | ||||||||
| . Purposes | . . Uniformity of temperature distribution | . . . Prevention of heat diffusion | . . Resistance value adjustment | . . Prevention of gaps between dots | ||||||||
| B41J2/345@B | KB | KB00 SHAPE OR DISPOSITION OF CONDUCTOR |
KB01 | KB02 | KB03 | KB04 | KB05 | KB06 | KB07 | KB08 | KB09 | KB10 |
| . Structures * | . . Thin films | . . Thick films | . . Disposition on flat surfaces * | . . . Special individual electrode structures * | . . . Special common electrode structures * | . . Three-dimensional structures * | . . Conductors for functional elements * | . . Structures of connection parts * | . . . Wire bonding * | |||
| KB11 | KB12 | KB13 | KB14 | KB15 | KB16 | KB17 | KB18 | |||||
| . . . Flexible printed boards * | . . . Connections of linear resistors and conductors * | . Purposes | . . Resistance value adjustment or equalisation | . . Enhancement of high density | . Manufacturing methods * | . . Beam cutting | . . Plating | |||||
| B41J2/345@C | KC | KC00 MULTILAYERED WIRING |
KC01 | KC02 | KC03 | KC04 | KC05 | KC06 | KC07 | KC08 | KC09 | KC10 |
| . Structures of conductors * | . . Three or more layers | . . Thin films | . . Thick films | . . Matrix wiring | . . Conductor substrates | . . Wiring for integrated circuits | . Insulating layers * | . . Tapes or films | . . Layered films | |||
| KC11 | ||||||||||||
| . Manufacturing methods * | ||||||||||||
| B41J2/345@D | KD | KD00 CONTINUOUS RESISTOR |
KD01 | KD02 | KD03 | KD04 | KD05 | KD06 | KD07 | KD08 | KD09 | KD10 |
| . Disposition or structures of resistors * | . . Two-line disposition | . . Meandering shapes | . . Disposition or structures of conductors * | . . Unidirectionally crossing types | . . Alternatively crossing types | . . Front facing types | . . Obliquely opposed types | . . Three-dimensional disposition | . . Structures of common electrodes * | |||
| KD11 | KD12 | |||||||||||
| . . Structures of connections * | . Others (purposes) * | |||||||||||
| B41J2/345@J;2/345@Z | KJ | KJ00 ARRANGEMENT OF RESISTOR |
KJ01 | KJ02 | KJ03 | KJ04 | KJ05 | KJ06 | KJ07 | KJ08 | KJ09 | KJ10 |
| . Element shapes * | . . Oblique shapes | . Arrangements * | . . Parallel arrangements | . . Staggered arrangements | . . Oblique arrangements | . . . Variable angles | . . . Block units | . . Definitions for sizes gaps or disposition of elements * | . . . having both large and small elements or gaps * | |||
| KJ11 | KJ12 | KJ13 | KJ14 | KJ15 | KJ16 | KJ17 | ||||||
| . . Elements with special functions * | . . . for ruled lines | . . . for detection (objects to be detected) | . Others (purposes) * | . . Resistance value adjustment | . . Connection structures of conductors * | . . Driving energy control (purposes) | ||||||
| B41J2/345@K | KK | KK00 DISPOSITION OF DIODE OR DRIVING ELEMENT |
KK01 | KK02 | KK03 | KK04 | KK05 | KK06 | KK07 | KK08 | KK09 | KK10 |
| . Kinds of functional elements * | . . Transistors | . . . Integrated circuits (IC) | . . Diodes | . . . Diode arrays | . Functional elements and structures or disposition of the devices * | . . Chip disposition * | . . . Staggered disposition | . . . Disposition on lateral or back sides of substrates | . . Height matching * | |||
| KK11 | KK12 | KK13 | KK14 | KK15 | KK16 | KK17 | KK18 | KK19 | KK20 | |||
| . . Integrally formed elements * | . Wiring or connection objects * | . . Multilayered wiring * | . . . Matrix wiring or connections * | . . Wiring or connections for functional elements * | . . . Wiring or connections for integrated circuits * | . . Connections between substrates * | . . Connections between substrates and exterior cables * | . Connection structures or methods * | . . Wire bonding * | |||
| KK21 | KK22 | KK23 | KK24 | KK25 | KK26 | |||||||
| . . Wireless bonding * | . . . Flexible substrates * | . . Die bonds | . Manufacturing methods * | . Others (purposes) * | . . Protection of functional elements * |