US 12,325,249 B2
Medicine packaging device, ink ribbon running control method, ink ribbon roll and ink ribbon cassette
Tooru Tanaka, Osaka (JP); Tomohiro Sugimoto, Osaka (JP); Satoru Ogino, Osaka (JP); Noboru Yamazaki, Osaka (JP); and Tomonari Oda, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed by YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/303,518.
Application 18/303,518 is a continuation of application No. 17/063,587, filed on Oct. 5, 2020, granted, now 11,660,894.
Application 17/063,587 is a continuation of application No. 15/366,227, filed on Dec. 1, 2016, granted, now 10,836,192, issued on Nov. 17, 2020.
Application 15/366,227 is a continuation of application No. 14/382,743, granted, now 9,539,834, issued on Jan. 10, 2017, previously published as PCT/JP2013/055489, filed on Feb. 28, 2013.
Claims priority of application No. 2012-048607 (JP), filed on Mar. 5, 2012; and application No. 2012-189757 (JP), filed on Aug. 30, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2023/0249486 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 32/00 (2006.01); B41J 17/02 (2006.01); B41J 17/24 (2006.01); B41J 17/32 (2006.01); B41J 17/36 (2006.01); B41J 33/14 (2006.01); B65B 61/02 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 32/00 (2013.01) [B41J 17/02 (2013.01); B41J 17/24 (2013.01); B41J 17/32 (2013.01); B41J 17/36 (2013.01); B41J 33/14 (2013.01); B65B 61/025 (2013.01)] 1 Claim
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1. A medicine packaging device printing on a continuous sheet for packaging by bringing an ink ribbon and the continuous sheet for packaging into contact with one another using a print head, as well as packaging medicine by one package by using the continuous sheet for packaging, the medicine packaging device comprising:
an ink ribbon roll that has the ink ribbon wound around a supply core having a structure where an inner tube is inserted into an outer tube, whereby forming a gap between the inner tube and the outer tube, the ink ribbon roll further having a recording medium provided in the gap;
an ink ribbon cassette to which the ink ribbon roll is detachably installed;
a reader-writer that reads information from the recording medium installed at the supply core of the ink ribbon roll from a position outside of the ink ribbon cassette as well as writes information to the recording medium; and
an information output unit that outputs information showing the usage amount or the remaining amount of the ink ribbon which have been changed due to the use of the ink ribbon, to the reader-writer as information to be written on the recording medium, wherein
the recording medium of the ink ribbon roll has a plurality of storage areas each corresponding to each of the usage amounts of the ink ribbon roll, and a rewriting process of each storage area is deactivated as needed, and
the actual usage amount of the ink ribbon roll is compared with the usage amount recorded on the recording medium, and, in a case where the two usage amounts are different, the usage amount recorded on the recording medium is rewritten so as to conform to the actual usage amount.