System for preventing abnormal heating of thermal head

Details System for preventing abnormal heating of thermal head System for preventing abnormal heating of thermal head

1992-03-24

1994-10-04

Fuller, Benjamin R.

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B41J 235, B41J 2375, B41J 236, B41J 2365

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053530446

ABSTRACT:
A system for preventing abnormal heating of a thermal head, which is configured with pure hardware. In the system, when a temperature of the thermal head becomes an abnormally high temperature exceeding a predetermined temperature and/or an active time of a print-time setting signal cyclically issued from a microcomputer for activating the thermal head only for a time period necessary for printing of one line of picture image becomes abnormally long, a flip-flop is set so that three sorts of switch circuits are respectively operated in such a manner as follows, whereby the abnormal heating of the thermal head can be prevented at a very high reliability.
(1) The supply of a drive voltage to the thermal head for heating the thermal head is forcibly stopped.
(2) The input of the print-time setting signal to the thermal head is forcibly stopped.
(3) A picture image signal supplied from the microcomputer to the thermal head is cut off and, instead of the picture image signal from the microcomputer, a signal indicative of a non-printing picture image, e.g., all-white picture image, is forcibly supplied to the thermal head as the picture image signal.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4704618 (1987-11-01), Gotoh et al.
patent: 4736089 (1988-04-01), Hair et al.
patent: 4873536 (1989-10-01), Minowa et al.
patent: 5162813 (1992-11-01), Kuroiwa et al.

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