JPH0699680A - Bankbook printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To equip with a common page turning mechanism, with which pages, of bankbooks, the page opening directions and sizes of which are different from each other, can be turned. CONSTITUTION:The bankbook printer concerned is equipped with a conveying part, with which bankbooks are conveyed to the predetermined positions and stopped, a controlling device, a bankbook guide 2, which acts as a conveying reference, a printing part, at which the predetermined printing is performed onto the bankbook, and a page turning mechanism part 7 consisting of a page turning member, which is provided at the bankbook guide so as to be inclined to the direction opposite to the conveying direction of the bankbook, and the driving means of the page turning member. Thus, the accommodation by one page turning mechanism becomes possible in a bankbook printer dealing with various bankbooks.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a passbook printer having a passbook automatic page changing mechanism.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Passbooks are roughly classified into two types called a side-opening passbook and a vertically-opening passbook depending on the method of binding them on a booklet. In the case of page-changing such different types of passbooks with one passbook printer, it is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 61-57393.
By selectively moving the turning roller for turning the page to a position that is parallel to the conveyance direction of the passbook and at a position that is perpendicular to it, it is possible to handle both types of passbooks that are opened horizontally or vertically. Was there. Also, JP-A-63-956
As shown in FIG. 4, the page-shaped body tilted obliquely to the carrying direction of the passbook is contacted and rotated with the page of the booklet to expand the page, and when the expansion is detected, the page-shaped body is moved in the oblique direction. By changing the page, it was possible to change both horizontal and vertical type booklets.

[0003]

In the conventional passbook printer, when the pages of various different passbooks are turned, it is necessary to change the positions of the page changing mechanism section and the page changing roller. Therefore, there are few kinds of passbooks that can be supported by one passbook printer, and it is necessary to change the design every time the passbook type or size changes, and the cost increase due to the increase of parts types and the burden of development man-hours is avoided. It was difficult.

An object of the present invention is to provide a passbook printer having a common page changing mechanism capable of changing pages with respect to passbooks having different page opening directions and sizes.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a passbook printer according to the present invention comprises means for conveying a passbook to a predetermined position and stopping it, and further, a passbook guide serving as a conveyance standard for the passbook, and a passbook. Printing means for performing predetermined printing on
The passbook guide is provided with a page changing member which is provided inclining in a direction opposite to the direction in which the passbook is conveyed with respect to a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the passbook is conveyed, and a page changing mechanism including driving means for the page changing member. In addition, the page changing is performed by interlocking the conveyance stopping means and the page changing mechanism.

[0006]

According to the present invention, by providing the passbook guide, the passroller conveys the passbook to the optimum page changing position,
The page changing of the passbook is performed by the interlocking of the page changing roller and the conveying roller which are inclined in the direction opposite to the conveying direction.

[0007]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a passbook printer, which shows a passbook guide 2 for passing passbooks along a reference edge.
Is equipped with. FIG. 2 is a side view of the passbook printer, and the control unit 10 can control conveyance, printing, and page changing operations. 3 and 4 are plan views of the page changing mechanism section 7 of the laterally opened / vertically opened passbook printer, respectively. 5 to 9
FIG. 11 is an operation diagram of the page changing mechanism unit 7 of the horizontal opening passbook 3a, and FIGS. 11 to 13 are operation diagrams of the page changing mechanism unit 7 of the vertical opening passbook 3b. Further, FIGS. 10A to 10C show the side-opening passbook 3a.
14A to 14C show page changes of the vertically opened passbook 3b. FIG. 15 is a flow chart from the insertion of the passbooks to the page change, and FIG. 16 is a block diagram of the control unit for controlling the insertion, conveyance, stop, printing, page change and discharge of the passbooks.

Next, the overall configuration of the passbook printer of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

In the passbook printer according to the present invention, one of the side frames serves as a guide 2 serving as a reference end for conveying the passbook 3, and the passbook 3 inserted through the insertion port is put in a predetermined printing portion or a predetermined page. Transport roll for transporting to the replacement section
The printing unit includes a printing head 5 and a platen 6 for printing a predetermined character. The transport rollers 4 are arranged with a width approximately the same as the insertion opening of the passbooks and at a space perpendicular to the insertion direction so as to accommodate the passbooks of a size that can be inserted into the insertion opening. Further, the page changing mechanism 7 for page change is equipped with a page changing member 8 and a page changing motor 9.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the page changing mechanism portion includes a page changing roller 8 mounted obliquely in a direction opposite to the passbook insertion direction A, and the page changing roller 8. Driven page change motor 9
Composed of.

Next, the normal operation of the passbook printer will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 15 by returning to FIG.

In order to align the passbook 3 with the reference end, the passbook 3 is inserted along the end of the passbook guide 2. The inserted passbook 3 is sent to the printing section by the transport roller 4, and a predetermined print is performed by the print head 5 and the platen 6. When the predetermined printing is completed, the sheet is ejected from the passbook insertion port by the transport roller 4 again. In addition, passbook 3 during printing
When the page is full, it is conveyed to the page changing mechanism section 7 by the conveying roller 4, and the page changing roller 8 is changed to the page changing motor 9.
The page is changed by driving the sheet with the feeding roller 4 again and sending it to the printing section with the feeding roller 4, and when the predetermined printing is completed, the feeding roller is turned.
It is discharged from the insertion port by the la 4.

Next, the page changing operation will be described with reference to FIGS.

Since the optimum position for page turning differs depending on the width and length of the passbook 3 or the type of passbook (horizontal opening / vertical opening), the dimensions of the passbook 3 are included in advance as shown in the control block of FIG. The medium information is stored in the memory 11 of the control unit 10 from the input means such as the operation panel 12, or is received as the parameter information of the host device 13 and stored in the memory 11 of the control unit 10. By doing so, it is possible to appropriately control, and it is possible to determine the optimum page changing position E in FIGS. 3 and 4. The optimum page change position E by the control unit 10
As shown in FIGS. 5 and 11, the passbook 3 having been determined is sent to the mounting position of the page changing member 8 of the page changing mechanism section 7 at the back of the printing section by the transport roller 4.

From this point on, the horizontal passbook and the vertical passbook will perform page replacement by different operations, and therefore will be described separately.

First, the page changing operation of the side-opening passbook 3a will be described with reference to FIG.
9A to 9C and a side sectional view of the page changing operation shown in FIGS. 10A to 10C, both the plane and the side section will be described.

As shown in FIG. 5, the page changing operation of the side-opening passbook 3a stopped at the optimum page changing position E by the control unit is shown in FIG. 6, FIG. 7 (FIG. 10 (a)) to FIG. 8 (FIG. 10). As shown in (b)), while the page changing roller 8 is driven by the page changing motor 9, the conveying roller 4 is reversed and moved in the direction of the printing portion (direction B). The page is opened by, and as shown in FIG. 8 (FIG. 10 (b)) to FIG. 9 (FIG. 10 (c)), the conveyance roller 4 is moved in the direction of the printing portion (direction B) to change pages. To complete.

Next, the page changing operation of the vertically opened passbook 3b will be described with reference to FIG.
1 to 13 are plan views of the page changing operation and Figs. 14 (a) to 14 (c).
Both the plane and the side section will be described with reference to the side section view of the page changing operation.

As shown in FIG. 11, the page changing operation of the vertically opened passbook 3b stopped at the optimum page changing position E by the control unit is as follows.
As shown in FIG. 12 (FIG. 14 (b)) to FIG. 13 (FIG. 14 (c)), the conveying roller 4 is reversed while the page changing motor 8 is driven by the page changing motor 9. The page change operation is completed by moving in the direction of the printing unit (direction B).

The passbook 3 for which the page change is completed by being sent in the direction B by the carrying roller 4 is sent again to the printing section,
When the predetermined printing is completed, it is conveyed toward the insertion port by the conveyance roller 4 and ejected.

The passbook printer according to this embodiment can be used for passbooks of any size, and can be used for both horizontal and vertical opening types.

[0023]

According to the present invention, it is possible to deal with passbooks having different widths, lengths, and types by a common page changing mechanism, which can simplify the apparatus and reduce the cost. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a passbook printer.

FIG. 2 is a side sectional view of a passbook printer.

[Figure 3] Side-opening passbook printer plan view

[Figure 4] Vertical open passbook printer plan view

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing an operation of a page changing mechanism of a side-opening passbook.

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing the operation of the page changing mechanism of the side-opening passbook.

FIG. 7 is a plan view showing an operation of a page changing mechanism of a laterally opened passbook.

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing the operation of the page changing mechanism of the side-opening passbook.

FIG. 9 is a plan view showing the operation of the page changing mechanism of the side-opening passbook.

FIG. 10 is a side view showing the operation of the page changing mechanism of the side-opening passbook.

FIG. 11 is a plan view showing the operation of the page changing mechanism of the vertically opened passbook.

FIG. 12 is a plan view showing an operation of a page changing mechanism of a vertically opened passbook.

FIG. 13 is a plan view showing an operation of a page changing mechanism of a vertically opened passbook.

FIG. 14 is a side view showing the operation of the page changing mechanism of the vertically opened passbook.

FIG. 15 is a flow chart of page change operation.

FIG. 16 is a block diagram of a control unit

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Servo motor 2 ... Passbook guide 3 ... Passbook (3a ... Horizontal opening, 3b ... Vertical opening) 4 ... Conveying roller 5 ... Print head 6 ... Platen 7 ... Page change mechanism section 8 ... Page change member 9 ... Page change motor 10 ... Control section 11 ... Memory 12 ... Operation panel 13 ... Upper device 14 ... -CPU (Control Process)
ng Unit) 15 ... DMU (Direct Memory Acc)
ess Unit) 16 ... ROM (Read Only Memory) 17 ... RAM (Random Access Mem)
ory) 18 ... Transport control unit 19 ... Operation control unit 20 ... Line control unit A ... Inserting direction B ... Discharging direction C ... Side-opening passbook page turning direction D ... Vertical Opening passbook Page turning direction E ... Optimal page change position of passbook F ... Final print position of passbook l ... Transport distance from final print position F of passbook to optimum page change position E

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A means for transporting a passbook to a predetermined position and stopping it, a passbook guide serving as a transport reference for the passbook, a printing means for performing a predetermined printing on the passbook, and a direction orthogonal to the passbook transport direction on the passbook guide. In contrast to this, a page changing mechanism including a page changing member that is inclined in a direction opposite to the pass direction of the passbook and a driving means of the page changing member is provided. A passbook printer characterized in that the page of the passbook is changed in conjunction.