US 11,866,221 B2
Label printing device
Kosuke Hirata, Ritto (JP); Takashi Furukawa, Ritto (JP); and Masatsugu Tanaka, Ritto (JP)
Assigned to Ishida Co., Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by Ishida Co., Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Jan. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/578,895.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-046067 (JP), filed on Mar. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0297870 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. B65C 9/42 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B65C 9/18 (2006.01); B41J 11/36 (2006.01); B41J 15/16 (2006.01); B65D 83/64 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 11/66 (2006.01); B41J 11/70 (2006.01)
CPC B65C 9/42 (2013.01) [B41J 3/4075 (2013.01); B41J 11/36 (2013.01); B41J 11/663 (2013.01); B41J 11/703 (2013.01); B41J 15/165 (2013.01); B65C 9/1803 (2013.01); B41J 11/0095 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A label printing device for executing a printing process on a mountless label, comprising:
a conveying unit configured to convey the mountless label in its longitudinal direction;
a shaft portion configured to change a conveying direction of the mountless label while a non-adhesive side of the mountless label to be conveyed is wound thereon;
a cutting unit configured to cut the mountless label of which the conveying direction is changed by the shaft portion and issue a label; and
a controller configured to control the conveying unit and the cutting unit,
wherein the controller executes a preparatory operation mode in which the mountless label is conveyed a predetermined distance longer than a length of a portion extending from the shaft portion to the cutting unit in the mountless label by the conveying unit and is cut by the cutting unit when a label is not issued for more than a predetermined time.