US 11,993,072 B2
Printer and wireless tag writing device
Yoshitaka Kuniya, Izunokuni Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/316,264.
Application 18/316,264 is a division of application No. 17/951,230, filed on Sep. 23, 2022, granted, now 11,766,880.
Application 17/951,230 is a division of application No. 17/223,036, filed on Apr. 6, 2021, granted, now 11,571,917, issued on Feb. 7, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-116670 (JP), filed on Jul. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0278350 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 3/50 (2006.01); B41J 11/46 (2006.01); B41J 21/16 (2006.01); G06K 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/0045 (2013.01) [B41J 3/4075 (2013.01); B41J 3/50 (2013.01); B41J 11/46 (2013.01); B41J 11/0095 (2013.01); B41J 21/16 (2013.01); B41J 2203/01 (2020.08); G06K 17/0029 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printer, comprising:
a print head configured to print on a strip-shaped sheet;
a platen roller configured to move the strip-shaped sheet pinched between the platen roller and the print head along a longitudinal direction of the strip-shaped sheet;
a sheet position sensor provided on a substrate disposed on an upstream side of the print head in a conveyance direction of the strip-shaped sheet and configured to detect a position of the strip-shaped sheet;
an antenna provided on the substrate and configured to write information to a wireless tag provided on the strip-shaped sheet; and
a movable portion configured to move the substrate along a width direction of the strip-shaped sheet,
wherein
the substrate comprises a ground pattern that surrounds the antenna,
the sheet position sensor is provided on the ground pattern, and
the sheet position sensor and the antenna are provided one on top of the other perpendicular to the conveyance direction of the strip-shaped sheet.