JP2861395B2 - Stamp making device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention is, the scan with the desired stamp face
It is related to a stamp making device that can create a stamp.
You.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, stamps used to display addresses, names, company names, and the like have been created in rubber format or the like. This method is easy to print the same character repeatedly and can be used by anyone.

[0003]

However, in order to produce the above-mentioned rubber sheet or the like, it is necessary to request a specialized manufacturer, which requires a lot of days, which is very troublesome. In addition, when there is a change in the content of rubber stamps, etc., there is no other way but to make a new one, and the stamp is wasted, so it is often limited to immutable ones. Was.

[0004] The present invention has been made to solve the problems described above, the stamp having a desired stamp face
A stamp creation device that can easily create a stamp
It is intended to be.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a stamp forming apparatus according to the present invention uses a stamp body.
And form an image corresponding to the imprint on the stamp surface of the stamp body
Stamp forming apparatus having an image forming apparatus for
The image forming apparatus inputs data such as characters and symbols.
Input section and stamp body are detachably attached
And a data input section from the input section.
Image on the stamp face of the stamp body
And an image forming unit for forming a stamp body.
Is provided with a gripper for gripping by hand, and the stamp body is
It is attached to and detached from the mounting section of the image forming apparatus with the section provided.

[0006]

According to the stamp forming apparatus of the present invention having the above-described configuration , the holding section provided in the image forming apparatus is provided with a holding section.
Attach the stamp body equipped with. And the image shape
The stamp body attached to the mounting unit by the image forming unit of the forming device
On the stamp face of
Then, an image is formed on the stamp surface.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 schematically shows the appearance of the stamp section 12a (constituting the stamp body of the present invention) of the stamp making apparatus. FIG. 2 schematically shows the appearance of the stamp making apparatus. FIG. 3 shows a cross section taken along line BB of FIG. FIG.
2 shows a cross section taken along line A. This stamp creation device includes a keyboard 10 (constituting an input unit of the present invention) , a stamp document creating unit 12 (constituting an image forming unit of the present invention), and a liquid crystal display having a predetermined number of digits (hereinafter simply referred to as a display). ) 14 is provided. The keyboard 10 includes various function keys such as a character key 42 such as a kana or an alphabet, and a stamp document creation key 46. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the stamp document creating unit 12 includes a stamp unit 12a and a document creating unit 12b. In the stamp section 12a, a handle 13 (constituting the grip section of the present invention) for stamp operation is provided above the stamp section 12a.

[0009] As shown in FIG.
2 is provided with a thermal head 16 as a heating means, which is pressed against a platen roller 18. The thermal head 16 and the platen roller 1
8, a heat-sensitive stencil sheet 20 is supplied from a supply spool 22, and a guide roller 24 and an ink pad 3 are provided.
Then, it is sent to the guide roller 25 via the lower surface of the “0”. A stencil feed roller 26 is provided at a position between the guide roller 25 and the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 20, and the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 20 is moved in the direction of the take-up spool 29 by the guide roller 25 and the stencil feed roller 26. Sent to A gear (not shown) formed integrally with the stencil feed roller 26 is driven by a stencil feed motor 32 (see FIG. 6), and feeds the heat-sensitive stencil printing stencil 20 in the direction of the take-up spool 29. Further, the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 20 is formed by bonding a thermoplastic film and a porous support, and the thermoplastic film side comes into contact with the thermal head 16.

[0010] As shown in FIG.
, A pointer feed roller 50 is pressed against. A pointer feed roller 51 is provided at a position opposite to the stamp portion 12a of the pointer feed roller 50, and is paired with the pointer feed roller 50. A belt 52 is hung between the pointer feed roller 50 and the pointer feed roller 51.
Is attached. Since the groove 55 is provided in the housing 55 of the stamp portion 12a in parallel with the stamp surface as shown in FIG. 1, the hand 53 can be seen as shown in FIG. 1 when the stamp portion 12a is pressed against the paper. .

The thermal head 16 has a heating element array on its head body. The heating element row is composed of a number of heating elements, and in this embodiment, 448 arranged in one row.
It has a number of heating elements. The heating elements are arranged adjacent to each other in a direction perpendicular to the feed direction of the heat-sensitive stencil printing paper 20, and the heating elements are driven at a predetermined timing in accordance with the feed of the base paper, thereby the keyboard 10 is driven. The heat-sensitive stencil sheet 20 is thermally perforated in accordance with the data input in step (1). The heat-perforated heat-sensitive stencil sheet 20 is moved by the guide roller 25 by the ink pad 30.
Is sent by a predetermined amount so as to come to the lower surface of the. At this time, the pointer 53 is fed in the same direction as the feed direction of the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 20 by the guide roller 25, the pointer feed roller 50, the pointer feed roller 51, and the belt 52.

Next, a control system of the stamp forming apparatus will be described with reference to a block diagram shown in FIG. Keyboard 10
Is a microcomputer (hereinafter referred to as a microcomputer) 5
6 is connected to the input interface 58. The input interface 58 is connected to the CPU 6 by the bus line 60.
2, ROM64, RAM66, heat-sensitive stencil sheet 2
0 and a character generator (hereinafter referred to as a CG-ROM) 68 and 69 for heat perforation and display, and an output interface 70.

The ROM 64 has a program memory 71 for storing a program for controlling the overall operation of the stamp making apparatus, and a dictionary memory 72 for kana / kanji conversion.

The RAM 66 includes an input buffer 73 for storing data input from the keyboard 10, a heat perforation buffer 74 for storing data for heat perforating the heat-sensitive stencil sheet 20, and a shift register 75. It has counters and registers.

The CG-ROM 68 generates a dot pattern based on the code data of the input character, and the CG-ROM 69 generates a display dot pattern to be displayed on the display 14.

A head drive circuit 76, a motor drive circuit 77, and a display drive circuit 78 are connected to the output interface 70, and the thermal head 16, the stencil feed motor 32, and the display 14 are connected to each of them.

Hereinafter, an example of a stamp document creating operation of the stamp creating apparatus of this embodiment will be described with reference to a flowchart shown in FIG.

When the power is turned on, step S1 (hereinafter, referred to as step S1) is performed.
It is simply represented by S1. The same applies to other steps. ) At R
Initialization of each buffer register in the AM 66 and other initialization are performed. First, a character string is input on the keyboard 10 while checking characters input on the display 14. The heat perforation data input by the character key 42 is input to the input buffer 73 by S2, S3, and S4.
And a character corresponding to the heat perforation data is displayed on the display 14 via the display CG-ROM 69 in S5. When the stamp document creation key 46 is depressed, S7 is executed via S2 and S6, and the dot pattern generated in the CG-ROM 68 for heat perforation is developed in the heat perforation buffer 74 in accordance with the input code data. You. Subsequently, the flow shifts to S8, where the dot pattern developed in the thermal perforation buffer 74 is transferred to the shift register 75 for each dot row, and the dot row is thermally perforated on the heat-sensitive stencil sheet. By repeating the steps S8 and S9 while determining whether or not all the data to be thermally drilled has been thermally drilled in step S9, a thermal drilling result of 448 dots over the entire length of the heating element row is obtained. At this time,
As shown in FIG. 4, the heat-perforated heat-sensitive stencil sheet is fed in the direction D by driving the guide roller 25 by the sheet feed roller 26. At the same time, as shown in FIG. 2, since the pointer feed roller 50 is pressed against the guide roller 25, the belt 52 rotates and the pointer 53 moves in the C direction. After the thermal perforation of the character string is completed, the stamp fitting portion 44 of the stamp making apparatus main body 11 (the mounting of the present invention)
Part with the handle 13 from the composing), stamp unit 1
2a is pulled out from the stamp making apparatus main body 11. By holding the handle 13 and pressing the stamp portion 12a against the paper 31 in the direction E as shown in FIG. 5, the ink of the ink pad 30 is supplied to the heat-sensitive stencil printing base paper 20, and the heat-sensitive stencil printing is performed. Only the ink in the heat-perforated portion of the base paper 20 reaches the paper 31 to form characters. At this time, the user of the stamp forming apparatus can know where the character is formed based on the position of the pointer 53.

In the above embodiment, the number of heating element rows is 44.
Although the heating element is composed of eight heating elements, this number can be changed as appropriate.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

An LED 97 is arranged on the side of the housing 55 of the stamp section 12a instead of the pointer 53 to indicate where the character to be printed is located on the heat-sensitive stencil sheet.

That is, the rotation of the guide roller 25 causes the encoder 95 to rotate, and a signal of this rotation is input to the rotation amount detection circuit 81, and a signal corresponding to the feed amount of the heat-sensitive stencil sheet is sent to the LED drive control circuit 79. And the LED 97 at the place corresponding to the feed amount emits light.
A signal is sent from the drive control circuit 79 to the LED 97. Even in the manner described above, it is possible to know where the character to be printed is on the stamp, as in the first embodiment.
Further, the LED drive control circuit 79 is provided with a power supply unit for LED emission.

[0023]

As is clear from the above description,
According to the stamp creating device of the present invention, the stamp creating device
Enter the data, such as characters and symbols, of the seal to be created
And the image forming unit starts the scanning based on the input data.
Since an image is formed on the stamp surface of the stamp body, the desired stamp surface can be easily
Can be created.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a stamp unit 12a of a stamp producing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the appearance of the stamp making apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line BB of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of stamp printing performed by the apparatus shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a control system of the first embodiment of the present stamp creation device.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a portion of the program stored in the program memory of FIG. 6 which is relevant to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a control system of a second embodiment of the present stamp creation device.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory view showing the size of a heat-sensitive stencil sheet to be thermally perforated.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a stamp section 12a of the stamp making apparatus of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Keyboard 12 Stamp document preparation part 12a Stamp part 12b Document preparation part 13 Handle 16 Thermal head 20 Heat sensitive stencil printing stencil 26 Stencil feed roller 29 Take-up spool 30 Ink pad 32 Stencil feed motor 44 Stamp fitting part 50, 51 Guide feed Roller 52 Belt 53 Pointer 56 Microcomputer 66 RAM 76 Head drive circuit 77 Motor drive circuit 79 LED drive control circuit 81 Rotation amount detection circuit 95 Encoder 97 LED

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A stamp body and a stamp on a stamp face of the stamp body.
And an image forming apparatus for forming an image corresponding to the image.
A stamp creation apparatus, the image forming apparatus, for inputting data such as characters and symbols
Input section for attaching and detaching the stamp body
Based on the data input from the input unit
The image on the stamp face of the stamp attached to the
The stamp body includes a gripper for grasping by hand, and the stamp body is mounted on the image forming apparatus with the gripper provided.
A stamp making device which is detachably attached to a wearing portion.