METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CONDUCTIVE BASE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SHIELD FILM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SURFACE-SHAPED HEATING BODY
This method for manufacturing a conductive base material includes: a coating film forming step for using a conductive composition containing conductive particles to form a coating film on a surface of a base material; and an ultrasonic wave application step for applying an ultrasonic wave to the coating film to form a conductive layer. In the manufacturing method, the ultrasonic wave vibrates in a direction parallel to the surface of the base material. In addition, in the ultrasonic wave application step, in a state in which a horn subjected to ultrasonic vibration comes into contact with the coating film, an ultrasonic wave is applied to the coating film while causing the base material and the horn to move relative to each other.
B05D 5/12 - Processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces to obtain special surface effects, finishes or structures to obtain a coating with specific electrical properties
B05D 3/12 - Pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be applied; After-treatment of applied coatings, e.g. intermediate treating of an applied coating preparatory to subsequent applications of liquids or other fluent materials by mechanical means
H05K 3/12 - Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits in which conductive material is applied to the insulating support in such a manner as to form the desired conductive pattern using printing techniques to apply the conductive material
H05K 9/00 - Screening of apparatus or components against electric or magnetic fields
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METHOD FOR PRODUCING CONDUCTIVE BASE MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELD FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SHEET-LIKE HEATING ELEMENT AND CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION
H05K 1/09 - Use of materials for the metallic pattern
H05K 3/12 - Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits in which conductive material is applied to the insulating support in such a manner as to form the desired conductive pattern using printing techniques to apply the conductive material
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LABEL ASSEMBLY HAVING CUT WITH CURVED PORTIONS AND LABEL SHEET INCLUDING SAME
A label sheet includes a plurality of label assemblies. Each label assembly includes a label and a liner. The label includes a label first portion having an adhesive surface, and a label second portion having an adhesive surface. The liner includes a liner first portion coupled to the label first portion, the liner first portion configured to be separable from the label first portion, and a liner second portion coupled to the label second portion. A cut is formed in the liner and positioned between the liner first portion and the liner second portion. The cut includes a first curved portion positioned at a first edge of the liner and a second curved portion positioned at a second edge of the liner.
An RFID inlay, a hot melt-based adhesive layer laminated on a surface of the RFID inlay on which an RFID antenna and an IC chip are formed, a first thermoplastic resin sheet, and an adherend adhesive layer configured to be attached to an adherend are laminated in this order.
G06K 19/077 - Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
G06K 19/07 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips
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INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
An embodiment of the present invention is an information processing system comprising: a user terminal carried by a user; a communication device being attached on a product in a store and including a sensor and a storage, the sensor configured to detect a touch on the product by a person, the storage storing unique identification information; and an information processing device being capable of communicating with the user terminal. The information processing device comprises a control unit configured to, when a detecting device, which is the communication device that has detected a touch on the product by a person, is present in the store, associate user information on the user terminal positioned in proximity to the detecting device, with the identification information on the detecting device.
A printer is configured to print on a print medium having a thermal color developing layer and includes: a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements that are arranged in a line; and a processor configured to: set a first application period of a pulse of energizing current, during a scanning line time for one line, the pulse of energizing current applying thermal energy that causes the thermal color developing layer to develop color, to the plurality of heating elements, correct a length of the first application period, which is set by the processor, based on an image to be printed, and determine print speed to be applied in printing the whole image at a constant speed, by extending the scanning line time so as to contain a maximum length of the first application period that has been corrected by the processor.
B41J 2/37 - Print density control by compensation for variation in current
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
A printer for issuing print media includes: a rechargeable battery configured to supply power to the printer; a print unit configured to print information on the print media; a display unit; and a control unit configured to: compute “A” based on: a decrease in remaining battery capacity of the battery during a period of time from a reference time to the present time, and a total number of print media that have been issued during the period of time, where “A” is defined as remaining battery capacity of the battery decreased as a single print medium is issued; compute (B−C)/A to obtain a number of print media on which the print unit can print, where “B” is defined as present remaining battery capacity, and “C” is defined as a lower limit of remaining battery capacity of the battery; and control the display unit to display the number of print media.
One aspect of the present invention pertains to an article management system for detecting the presence or absence of an article, said system comprising: an oscillating member capable of oscillating between a first position and a second position; a torque generating member for generating a torque that causes the oscillating member to oscillate from the second position toward the first position; a communication device; a sheet-like radiowave shielding member that, when coming close to the communication device, shields radio waves generated from the communication device; and a control apparatus that acquires a result as to communication possibility by a wireless apparatus with the communication device, and determines, on the basis of said result as to the communication possibility, whether an article is present on a reference surface. Either the communication device or the radiowave shielding member is mounted to the oscillating member. When the oscillating member is situated at the first position, the communication device and the radiowave shielding member do not come close to each other, whereas when the oscillating member is situated at the second position, the communication device and the radiowave shielding member come close to each other.
An embodiment of the present invention is an information processing system including a first radio tag and an information processing device. The first radio tag stores unique tag identification information and is configured to be attached to a seating surface or a backrest surface of a seating unit. The information processing device includes a storage that stores information on a user of a seating unit and tag identification information of a radio tag attached to the seating unit, in an associated manner. The information processing device also includes an acquisition unit and a control unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire the tag identification information when the first radio tag transmits a signal containing the tag identification information. The control unit is configured to determine whether the user is seated on the seating unit, based on acquisition or non-acquisition of the tag identification information.
A display system includes: a first apparatus that detects a position of a person in a space in which an object is located; a second apparatus that is different from the first apparatus and detects a position of the object; and a control apparatus that displays information on a display apparatus. The control apparatus integrates information acquired from the first apparatus and related to a change in the position of the person between a predetermined point of time and a point of time different from the predetermined point of time and information acquired from the second apparatus and related to a change in the position of the object between a predetermined point of time and a point of time different from the predetermined point of time and displays integrated information on a display apparatus.
An analysis system includes: a first apparatus that detects a position of a person in a space in which an object is located; a second apparatus that is different from the first apparatus and detects a position of the object; and an analysis apparatus that analyzes a behavior of the person, wherein the analysis apparatus analyzes the behavior of the person in response to the object based on a relationship between the position of the person acquired from the first apparatus and the position of the object acquired from the second apparatus.
A product management apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores first characteristic data indicating a characteristic of a first product at a first date and time; an acquisition unit that acquires second characteristic data indicating a characteristic of a second product at a second date and time after the first date and time; and a determination unit that determines whether the first product and the second product are identical based on the first characteristic data, the second characteristic data, and a time elapsed since the first date and time until the second date and time.
An embodiment of the present invention is a printer including: a feed roller configured to feed a print medium; a print head configured to pinch the print medium with the feed roller and to print on the print medium; and a biasing member configured to bias the print head in a first direction toward the feed roller. The print head is movable in the first direction between a first position and a second position. The first position is a position at which the print head can be removed when moved in a second direction. The second position being a position at which the print head cannot be removed when moved in the second direction.
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41J 15/02 - Web rolls or spindles; Attaching webs to cores or spindles
An RFID label includes: an RFID inlay having an inlay substrate, an RFID antenna formed on a part of the inlay substrate, and an IC chip connected to the RFID antenna; a label substrate laminated on one surface of the RFID inlay via a lamination adhesive layer; and an adherend adhesive layer formed on the other surface of the RFID inlay, in which a shielding layer containing a conductive material is formed on at least a part of a region other than the RFID antenna of the inlay substrate.
The present invention provides an information processing system comprising: a wireless communication medium including a status detection unit that detects the status of an object of detection, an IC chip in which is stored unique information for identifying the status detection unit, and a wireless communication antenna connected to the IC chip; an information processing terminal including a reading unit for reading a detection signal of the status detection unit and the unique information from the wireless communication medium; and an information processing device having unique information and a determination algorithm associated with the unique information, wherein the information processing terminal executes reading of the detection signal multiple times in the reading unit, and corrects the detection signal on the basis of the unique information and plurality of detection signals read, and a determination algorithm received from the information processing device.
G08C 25/00 - Arrangements for preventing or correcting errors; Monitoring arrangements
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
G06K 19/07 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips
G08C 17/00 - Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
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STATE DETECTION SYSTEM, DETECTION DEVICE, STATE DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM
This state detection system comprises a detection device for detecting the state of a specimen, and an information processing terminal having an antenna and supplying power wirelessly to the detection device, the detection device having: a detection unit formed on the specimen and constituted by a plurality of capacitors formed by sandwiching a dielectric material between a pair of conductors; an IC chip connected to the detection unit, the IC chip having a charging/discharging circuit that applies a voltage to or stops applying a voltage to the plurality of capacitors, an AD conversion circuit that converts analog signals from the plurality of capacitors into digital signals, and a memory in which information specific to the specimen is stored; and a wireless communication antenna that is connected to the IC chip and that receives the wireless power supply from the information processing terminal. The detection device detects the state of the specimen on the basis of the digital signal relating to the voltage value of the detection unit measured at a predetermined timing during discharging of the plurality of capacitors.
G01N 27/22 - Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means by investigating impedance by investigating capacitance
A61J 1/03 - Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes for pills or tablets
B65D 75/34 - Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding one or both sheets or blanks being recessed to accommodate contents and having several recesses to accommodate a series of articles or quantities of material
An embodiment of the present invention is a printer in which peeling issuing and continuous issuing can be switched. Peeling issuing allows a label to be issued after being peeled from a liner of a print medium with the label releasably attached on the liner. Continuous issuing allows the label to be issued without being peeled from the liner. The printer includes: a feed roller configured to feed the print medium; a print head configured to pinch the print medium with the feed roller and to print information on the label; and a peeling unit configured to hold a peeling roller that faces the feed roller in peeling issuing. The peeling unit is movable between a closed position and an open position, the closed position being a position at which the peeling unit at least partly covers the print head, the open position being a position at which the peeling unit does not cover the print head. When the peeling unit is at the open position, space for allowing mounting and removing the print head is formed.
B65C 9/18 - Label feeding from strips, e.g. from rolls
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
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INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
An information processing system includes: a user terminal carried by a user; and an information processing device being capable of communicating with the user terminal. The user terminal includes: a display, and a processor configured to: acquire product information on a product and expiration information on an expiration date of the product; and cause the display to show product inventory information on the user, which is acquired from the information processing device. The information processing device includes a processor configured to: acquire the product information and the expiration information, which are obtained by the user terminal, as product inventory information on the user, when the product has been paid for by the user, and provide the product inventory information on the user, which is acquired by the processor, to the user terminal based on a request from the user.
An embodiment of the present invention is an RFID label having a label substrate, an RFID antenna, an IC chip, and an adhesive layer that are stacked in this order. The label substrate is a thermal paper having a thermosensitive color developing layer on one surface. The RFID antenna is provided on the other surface of the label substrate. The IC chip is connected to the RFID antenna with an ultraviolet curable anisotropic conductive adhesive.
Provided is an electronic tag including: a real time clock to which power is always supplied from a battery and that outputs the time; a control circuit that is connected to the real time clock; a sensor that is connected to the battery such that power is directly supplied from the battery and that is brought into a conductive state, thus being energized, when acceleration the absolute value of which is equal to or greater than a predetermined acceleration is applied; and a latch circuit that is connected to the sensor, that is brought into an ON state in which power is supplied to the control circuit, when the sensor is energized, and that maintains the ON state even if the sensor is brought into a non-conductive state thereafter, whereby the electricity is cut off. The control circuit acquires time from the real time clock when power is supplied, writes the time in a memory, and then outputs, to the latch circuit, a control signal for bringing the latch circuit into an OFF state in which power is not supplied to the control circuit.
G01P 15/00 - Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration
G06K 19/07 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips
G06K 19/077 - Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
An embodiment of the present invention is a thermal head including: a heat dissipation plate having a first surface of a substantially rectangular shape in a plane view, and a second surface that is on an opposite side to the first surface; a board attached to the heat dissipation plat in such a manner as to extend from the first surface to the second surface, via a first end part interposed between the first surface and the second surface; a heating part having a plurality of heating elements, the heating part being disposed on the board over the first surface; and surface-mount devices mounted on the board over the second surface.
An embodiment of the present invention is a printer including: a body case; a printer cover configured to be openable and closable relative to the body case about a rotary shaft; a platen roller that is rotatably attached the printer cover; a print head configured to pinch a print medium with the platen roller when the printer cover is closed and perform printing on the print medium; a first connector disposed at a first position of the body case; a second connector disposed at the printer cover such that the second connector is connected to the first connector when the printer cover is closed; and a platen retaining part disposed at the body case and configured to rotatably retain a first portion of the platen roller at a second position of the body case when the printer cover is closed, the first position being in the vicinity of the second position.
B41J 2/32 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads
H01R 13/631 - Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure for engagement only
A printer includes a body case that includes a placement surface for the printer and an accommodating chamber for accommodating a roll body into which a belt-shaped print medium are wound; a printer cover configured to open and close the accommodating chamber; a platen roller that is attached to the printer cover and configured to convey the belt-shaped print medium drawn out of the roll body; and a hinge that includes a hinge shaft and is configured to couple the printer cover with the body case so that the printer cover is swingable about the hinge shaft relative to the body case. The printer cover includes an upper surface portion and an inclined surface portion, the inclined surface portion being provided between the hinge shaft and the upper surface portion and inclined relative to the placement surface.
B41J 2/32 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads
B41J 15/04 - Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles
An embodiment of the present invention is a printer including: a feed roller configured to feed a print medium; a print head configured to pinch the print medium with the feed roller and to print on the print medium; at least a biasing member configured to bias the print head in a first direction toward the feed roller; and an abutting part that abuts on the print head. The print head comprises: a first side biased by the biasing member, and a second side that is an opposite of the first side, the second side facing the feed roller. When seen from a side view of the printer, a point of applying a biasing force of the biasing member to the print head is between a position at which the print head receives a reaction force from the feed roller and a position at which the abutting part supports the second side of the print head. The print head is swingable around a fulcrum at the abutting part in a clockwise swinging direction and a counterclockwise swinging direction in a side view of the printer.
An embodiment of the present invention is a printer in which peeling issuing and continuous issuing can be switched. Peeling issuing allows a label to be issued after being peeled from a liner of a print medium with the label releasably attached on the liner. Continuous issuing allows the label to be issued without being peeled from the liner. The printer includes a feed roller configured to feed the print medium and also includes a peeling unit including a peeling roller holder and a peeling roller cover. The peeling roller holder holds a peeling roller that faces the feed roller in peeling issuing. The peeling roller cover axially supports the peeling roller holder in a swingable manner and is movable between a closed position and an open position. When the peeling roller cover is at the open position, the peeling roller holder is swingable between a first position for facing a back surface of the peeling roller cover and a second position at which the peeling roller is not covered with the peeling roller cover. The peeling unit further includes a biasing member that biases the peeling roller holder from the first position to the second position.
An information processing device according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires, for each user, as product storage information, information that includes the product type, expiration period, and quantity of a product before consumption; a tabulation unit that, on the basis of user address information and the product storage information acquired by the acquisition unit for each user, tabulates the quantity of the product for each expiration date and the number of users storing the product, among the product storage information for users living within a prescribed range from a store selling the product; and an output control unit that outputs the result tabulated by the tabulation unit.
An embodiment of the present invention is a printer including: a body case; a platen roller configured to feed a print medium; and a printer cover being swingable relative to the body case and having an outer printer cover and an inner printer cover that are disposed to overlap each other. The inner printer cover is detachably attached to the outer printer cover, and is swingable relative to the body case, independently of the outer printer cover, when the inner printer cover is detached from the outer printer cover. The outer printer cover includes: a first holder configured to detachably hold both ends of a platen shaft of the platen roller when the inner printer cover is detached; and a second holder configured to detachably hold the platen roller when the inner printer cover is detached.
The present invention is an information processing apparatus configured to associate flow line information of a purchaser and product sales information, a region in an area where products are placed being set per category of products, the information processing apparatus including: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire the flow line information of the purchaser from a communication device that moves together with the corresponding purchaser in the area, the flow line information of the purchaser containing position information showing positions in the area of the communication device with the lapse of time; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire the product sales information that contains sales times of products and categories of the products purchased at the sales times; a product category identification unit configured to identify the categories of the products that are associated with the flow line information of the purchaser, from the flow line information of the purchaser acquired by the first acquisition unit and from the category information of the products placed in the area; a third acquisition unit configured to acquire a degree of association of the flow line information of the purchaser with the product sales information, based on the categories of the products contained in the product sales information acquired by the second acquisition unit and based on the categories of the products identified by the product category identification unit; and an association unit configured to associate the flow line information of the purchaser with the product sales information based on the degree of association acquired by the third acquisition unit.
An inventory tracking system (10) for use in tracking articles (12) received in a cabinet (14) comprises at least one RFID read antenna assembly (100), an RFID tag interrogator (30), and an electrical connector arrangement (24). The cabinet comprises a receptacle (16), a holder (18) arranged in the receptacle and at least one metal substrate (20) received in the holder. The metal substrate is configured to receive at least one article carrying an RFID tag. The RFID read antenna assembly is mountable to the metal substrate, the antenna assembly comprising at least one antenna coil (102) and a high permeability layer (104). The RFID tag interrogator is configured to interrogate the RFID tag of the, or each, article received by the at least one metal substrate. The electrical connector arrangement has complementary components (26, 28) carried by the holder and the metal substrate for establishing, and breaking, an electrical connection between the interrogator and the at least read antenna assembly.
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
A47B 47/02 - Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features related to dismountability or building-up from elements made of metal only
G01S 5/02 - Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position-line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations using radio waves
This printer comprises: a conveyance path in which is conveyed in a conveyance direction a continuous body in which a wireless tag is provided in plurality at a prescribed interval that is activated when the electric power generated by a prescribed communication radio wave becomes equal to or greater than prescribed electric power; and a communication unit for wirelessly communicating with one wireless tag in the continuous body that is the wireless tag to be communicated using an antenna, which generates the prescribed communication radio wave, at a position facing the antenna. The wireless tags, even within a range reachable by a prescribed communication radio wave, cannot be activated by a prescribed communication radio wave coming from a direction along a specific direction. The antenna is located in a direction along the specific direction with respect to a wireless tag that adjoins the wireless tag to be communicated on the upstream side of the conveyance direction and/or a wireless tag that adjoins the wireless tag to be communicated on the downstream side of the conveyance direction in the conveyance path.
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
B41J 2/325 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
G09F 3/00 - Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
H05K 9/00 - Screening of apparatus or components against electric or magnetic fields
The controller of this printer executes a radiowave adjustment process for adjusting the output of and/or the duty ratio of a prescribed communication radiowave in a subsequent radiowave output following a radiowave output cycle in which a wireless tag was not actuated to be larger than the radiowave output cycle in which the wireless tag was not actuated.
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
B41J 29/00 - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
G06K 17/00 - Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups , e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
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IC CHIP MOUNTING DEVICE AND IC CHIP MOUNTING METHOD
An aspect of the present invention resides in an IC chip mounting device comprising: a transport section for transporting an antenna continuum in which a plurality of inlay antennas is continuously formed on a base material; an IC chip placement section for placing an IC chip on an adhesive provided at a predetermined reference position of each antenna of the antenna continuum; and a unit installation section for replaceably installing a light curing unit that cures the adhesive by irradiation with light while pressing the IC chip placed on the adhesive towards the antenna and a thermal curing unit that cures the adhesive by heating while pressing the IC chip placed on the adhesive towards the antenna.
One aspect of the present invention is a communication control method for a communication device, comprising: (i) blocking communication with a wireless apparatus of the communication device by bringing a metal-containing member close to a communication antenna among a plurality of antennas of the communication device, or by covering part of the communication antenna with the metal-containing member; (ii) a capacitor being charged by the communication device on the basis of energy obtained by an energy-acquiring antenna of the communication device to maintain the voltage of the capacitor at or above a prescribed value, regardless of whether or not the communication device can communicate with the wireless apparatus; and (iii) restarting communication with the wireless apparatus of the communication device when the metal-containing member is no longer close to the communication antenna or when part of the communication antenna is no longer covered by the metal-containing member.
G06K 19/07 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips
A47F 7/00 - Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
An RFID read antenna assembly (100) for use on a metal substrate (20) is used to read an RFID tag (22) carried by an article (12) positioned relative to the metal substrate. The antenna assembly comprises a high permeability layer (104) mountable to the metal substrate, an elongate carrier (114) mounted to the high permeability layer and defining a longitudinal axis (106), and at least one antenna coil (102) carried by the elongate carrier. The at least one antenna coil has a plurality of uniformly spaced transversely arranged portions (116) defining a sequence of antenna loops (105) of substantially constant width. The width of each antenna loop is substantially the same as the spacing between adjacent transversely arranged portions.
G06Q 10/087 - Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
H01Q 1/22 - Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles
H01Q 7/00 - Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
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ARTICLE MANAGING APPARATUS, ARTICLE MANAGING SYSTEM, AND ARTICLE MANAGING METHOD
An article managing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an article attachment tool which has a linear member, one end of which is attached to an article, and a biasing member which biases the linear member from the one end toward a first direction; a communication device attached to the linear member; and a device accommodation part which can accommodate the communication device and is configured so that an electromagnetic shield function acts on the communication device when the communication device is accommodated, wherein the communication device is accommodated in the device accommodation part when an external force against the biasing force of the biasing member in the first direction is not applied to the article, and can exit the device accommodation part when an external force against the biasing force of the biasing member in the first direction is applied to the article.
An embodiment of the present invention is an item management system comprising: a placement member on which an item is to be placed, which is in a first position when no item is placed thereon, and which moves from the first position toward a second position when an item is placed; a communication device which is attached to the placement member; a radio wave shielding member which shields radio waves emitted from the communication device when having come close to the communication device; a radio device which carries out radio communication with the communication device; and a control device which, upon acquiring a determination result of whether or not the radio device is permitted to communicate with the communication device, determines whether or not an item is placed on the placement member on the basis of the communication permission determination result. The communication device is separated from the radio wave shielding member when the placement member is in the first position, and the communication device comes close to the radio wave shielding member when the placement member is in the second position.
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
B65G 1/137 - Storage devices mechanical with arrangements or automatic control means for selecting which articles are to be removed
G06K 19/07 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips
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PRINTER, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
One aspect of the present invention is a printer comprising: a storage unit that stores identification information for the printer; a display unit that, when the printer is in a condition of being able to print, displays a screen indicating the condition of being able to print; an acquisition unit that can communicate with an external storage device storing a plurality of items of identification information which identify each of a plurality of printers and a plurality of items of associated information which are associated with each item of identification information, and if the identification information stored in the storage unit is included among the plurality of items of identification information, acquires, from among the plurality of items of associated information, the associated information which is associated with the identification information stored in the storage unit; and a display control unit that, in response to a prescribed operation by a user, controls the display unit such that the associated information which was acquired by the acquisition unit is included in the screen.
B41J 29/42 - Scales and indicators, e.g. for determining side margins
B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
G06F 3/0481 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof
An antenna pattern according to an aspect of the present invention is used for a UHF-band RFID inlay, and comprises: a first element that has a loop part having a pair of power feeding sections and a radiation part being connected to the loop part, extending line-symmetrically from the loop part, and operating as a dipole antenna to radiate radio waves, and that is formed so that the half-wave length of the radio waves is equal to a first length; and a second element that is spaced apart from the first element, that operates as a dipole antenna through electromagnetic coupling with the first element to radiate radio waves, and that is formed so that the half-wave length of the radio waves is equal to a second length that is different from the first length.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags; integrated circuit tag readers; tags incorporating integrated circuit chips; smart cards, namely, integrated circuit cards containing programming used for operating radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers and storage racks; integrated circuit card readers; computer programs for use in remote monitoring systems, namely, computer software for use in tracking medical apparatus and instruments for use in hospitals; computer programs for inventory management; electronic cabinets equipped with high speed and high precision readers using radio-frequency identification (RFID) techniques and parts thereof; computer hardware for data processing
This printer includes a cutter unit that can be detached from a printer body, the cutter unit includes a cutter unit body that holds a cutter blade for cutting a print medium, and a cutter unit cover that includes an ejection port for ejecting the print medium and is pivotally supported by an opening and closing shaft so that the cutter unit cover can open and close with respect to the cutter unit body.
A privilege display system includes a storage unit that stores product ID information set for each product, additional information set for each product, and privilege information set for each additional information in association with each other; an imaging unit that acquires a video including a first code attached to the product and a second code attached to the product; a display unit that displays the video as a real-time moving image; and a processing unit that acquires the product ID information represented by the first code and the additional information represented by the second code from the video, determines a privilege based on the privilege information stored in the storage unit in association with the acquired product ID information and the acquired additional information, and displays a content of the privilege at a predetermined position with respect to the second code in the real-time moving image.
G06K 7/14 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation using light without selection of wavelength, e.g. sensing reflected white light
Provided is a formed body including an antenna printed with conductive ink, an IC chip fixed to the antenna by a first UV-curing resin that is cured by UV light, and an IC chip protective base material which is formed from a second UV-curing resin that is cured by UV light and covers at least the IC chip, the formed body being formed from a thermoplastic resin.
G06K 19/02 - Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the selection of materials, e.g. to avoid wear during transport through the machine
An embodiment of the present invention is an information processing system including: a user terminal carried by a user; and an information processing device being able to communicate with the user terminal. The information processing device has: a storage storing product information of a product to be reduced in price in a store, condition information showing a condition of the product, and offered price information of the product, in association with one another; and a payment processor configured to perform a payment process of the product based on a payment request of the product corresponding to the product information acquired from the user terminal. The user terminal has a display controller that acquires the condition information and the offered price information corresponding to the product information of the product selected by the user, from the information processing device, and to cause a display to show the acquired information.
The present invention is an IC chip mounting apparatus including: an ejection unit configured to eject an adhesive toward a reference position of each antenna of an antenna continuous body, the antenna continuous body having a base material and plural inlay antennas continuously formed on the base material; a nozzle movable between a first position and a second position, the nozzle being configured to suck an IC chip, when located at the first position, and to place the IC chip on the adhesive at the reference position of each antenna, when located at the second position; a determination unit configured to determine whether an IC chip is sucked by the nozzle while the nozzle is moved from the first position to the second position; and a moving machine configured to move the nozzle away from the second position when it is determined by the determination unit that an IC chip is not sucked by the nozzle.
Systems for automatic labeling and methods for using automatic labeling systems are disclosed. A system can include a camera, and a controller including one or more processors coupled to one or more memories. The system can acquire an image of a sample object via the camera, and identify first and second tokens depicted in the image or positioned over the image of the sample object. The system can designate a location of the first token as a target label location at which a label is to be applied to the sample object, and designate a location of the second token as an identifying information location that is identifiable to determine an orientation of the sample object.
Provided is a printing system comprising: an applicator for applying a label to an adherend; and a printer connected to and cooperating with the applicator, wherein the printer transmits a signal indicating the status of the printer to the applicator and/or receives a signal for executing the operation of the printer from the applicator. The applicator receives and displays the signal indicating the status of the printer and/or receives and transmits, to the printer, the signal for executing the operation of the printer.
B65C 9/46 - Applying date marks, code marks, or the like, to the label during labelling
B41J 29/00 - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
B41J 29/42 - Scales and indicators, e.g. for determining side margins
This printer conducts printing on labels using a printing unit while feeding a continuous label sheet on which labels are arranged at a prescribed interval, makes a measurement of the arrangement length of printed labels using a second detection unit, sets a reference print start position for labels situated on the upstream side of the printing unit on the basis of the measured arrangement length, and performs a correction on the reference print start position by using the arrangement length and an inter-unit distance between the printing unit and a first detection unit.
An embodiment of an information processing system includes a user terminal carried by a user; and a server being capable of communicating with the user terminal. The user terminal is comprised of: an obtaining unit configured to obtain product information and expiration information related to an expiration date of a product from the product; and a display controller configured to cause a display to show information containing an offered price of the product, which is acquired from the server. The server is comprised of: a price determination unit configured to determine the offered price of the product based on the product information and the expiration information acquired from the user terminal; and a price information providing unit configured to provide information that contains the offered price of the product determined by the price determination unit, to the user terminal.
An aspect of the present invention is an information processing device comprising: a first setting unit that sets, for each product, an identifier associated with expiry information related to the expiration date; a second setting unit that sets, for each product, price reduction information associated with the expiry information related to the expiration date; and a display control unit that displays information related to the product on a display device in association with the identifier set by the first setting unit and the price reduction information set by the second setting unit.
G06K 19/077 - Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
G06K 19/07 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips
One aspect of the present invention relates to a verification system including a printer and a verification device. The printer is provided with a printing unit for printing onto various print media in a continuum on the basis of image data. The verification device is provided with: a first image data generation unit for reading a print medium prior to printing to thereby generate first image data; a second image data generation unit for reading an already-printed-upon print medium to thereby generate second image data; a printing verification unit for verifying, on the basis of drawing data, the first image data, and the second image data, whether prescribed information is correctly printed on various print media; an extraction unit for extracting identification information from the first image data; and a medium verification unit for verifying whether items of identification information extracted from first image data generated on the basis of each of two or more print media match identification information extracted from first image data generated on the basis of one print medium.
G01N 21/892 - Investigating the presence of flaws, defects or contamination in moving material, e.g. paper, textiles characterised by the flaw, defect or object feature examined
B41J 2/32 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads
B41J 3/36 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for portability
B41J 29/393 - Devices for controlling or analysing the entire machine
An RFID antenna for a container having an electroconductive container component is described. The RFID antenna comprises an antenna body having a surface comprising at least a portion of the electroconductive container component. The antenna body is shaped to define an antenna volume for receiving one or more RFID tagged items, and the antenna body forms a single turn solenoid. The RFID antenna further comprises at least one current feed point and at least one current return point, the feed and return points electrically connected to the antenna body so that a current flowing through the antenna body generates a magnetic field within the antenna volume for reading RFID tags.
H04B 10/90 - Non-optical transmission systems, e.g. transmission systems employing non-photonic corpuscular radiation
H01Q 1/22 - Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles
H04W 4/80 - Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
A printer system includes a management server that acquires position information of a printer and identifies a role of the printer set for the position of the printer based on the acquired position information, and the printer that acquires information associated with a role of the printer identified by the management server and operates based on the acquired information. The printer may update printer settings based on setting data acquired from the management server. The printer may acquire print data stored in a storage location identified by the management server and perform printing based on the acquired print data.
A wireless electromagnetic coupler arrangement for reactive near field coupling comprising a sequential array of coupling elements which are geometrically arranged one- or two-dimensionally. By means of feeding an unmodulated wave of electromagnetic energy to each of the coupling elements and a respective associated harvester element, in an initial sensing state, an automatic selection of a single coupling element or plural coupling elements which establish a particularly strong and efficient interaction with an inlay is performed. By means of a respective feedback loop, a switchable array of resistances is used to activate the selected coupling element(s) for coupling of information to/from the loop and to de-activate the remaining coupling elements.
A printer system includes: a printer that acquires and transmits, to a management server, identification information for identifying a customer and that also acquires, from the management server, and outputs recommendation information for the customer; and the management server that generates and transmits, to the printer, recommendation information including position information, based on at least one of attribute information or action history information of a customer identified by identification information acquired from the printer.
A label affixation device for affixing a label to an adherend is provided comprising a measurement unit that measures the shape of an adherend, and an affixation possible area determination unit that determines an affixation possible area of the adherend for a label on the basis of the shape.
A production method for an RFID container having an antenna and an IC chip, said method including: a step for provisionally attaching the antenna to a substrate with a first adhesive; a step for fixing the IC chip to the antenna; a step for bonding the surface of a container and the face of the substrate on which the antenna is formed with a second adhesive; and a step for leaving a partial region of the substrate covering the IC chip on the surface of the container while removing a region of the substrate other than the partial region covering the IC chip from the container.
G06K 19/077 - Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
G06K 19/06 - Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
G06K 19/14 - Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code using markings of different kinds in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means at least one kind of marking being used for authentication, e.g. of credit or identity cards the marking being sensed by radiation
This container manufacturing method involves an RFID inlay placement step for placing an RFID inlay, on which a thermoplastic adhesive is provided, on the inner surface of a mold with the thermoplastic adhesive exposed, and a forming step for supplying a heated material into a mold and forming a container provided with the RFID inlay on the outer surface with a thermoplastic adhesive interposed therebetween.
B29C 49/20 - Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor of articles having inserts or reinforcements
B29C 45/00 - Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mould; Apparatus therefor
B29C 45/14 - Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mould; Apparatus therefor incorporating preformed parts or layers, e.g. injection moulding around inserts or for coating articles
An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to acquire position information of a communication device; and a storage configured to store first map information and second map information. The processor is further configured to, in a case in which the processor acquires position information a predetermined number of times of at least two or more, in a first partial area of plurality of first partial areas, determine that the communication device exists in the first partial area. The processor is further configured to, in a case in which the processor acquires position information a predetermined number of times of at least two or more, in a second partial area of plurality of second partial areas, determine that the communication device exists in the second partial area.
G01S 5/04 - Position of source determined by a plurality of spaced direction-finders
G01S 5/00 - Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position-line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations
This printer for printing on the basis of printing data onto a plurality of labels which belong to a continuous label body is equipped with a backfeed control unit for moving the lead label to a printing start position by backfeeding the continuous label body, and a printing control unit for obtaining a printing start command after the backfeed control unit has started backfeeding, and printing onto the label which has been moved to the printing start position.
This RFID medium comprises a substrate, a heat-sensitive coloring layer that is formed on the front surface of the substrate, and that produces a color in response to heat, an antenna formed on the back surface of the substrate, and an IC chip connected to the antenna, wherein the antenna and the IC chip are connected by means of an electroconductive material that is cured with ultraviolet rays.
G06K 19/077 - Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
G06K 19/02 - Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the selection of materials, e.g. to avoid wear during transport through the machine
G09F 3/00 - Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
A radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna system (100) is adapted to receive and implement firmware programming from an RFID reader. The RFID antenna system comprises a plurality of antenna coils (104) for reading RFID tags, a selection circuit (106) configured to activate an active antenna coil from the plurality of antenna coils (104), and a processor (108) configured to control operation of the selection circuit (106). The RFID antenna system also includes a data transceiver (110) configured to provide bidirectional data communication between the processor (108) and the RFID reader so that the RFID antenna system (100) receives and implements firmware programming from the RFID reader.
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Goods & Services
Barcode printers; thermal printers; computer printers;
labels with integrated RFID chips; radio-frequency
identification (RFID) tags; tags incorporating integrated
circuit chips; radio-frequency identification (RFID)
readers; integrated circuit tag readers; bar code readers;
data processing apparatus; scanners [data processing
equipment]; bar code scanners; application software;
downloadable computer software; computer programs for remote
monitoring systems; computer programs for asset management;
downloadable computer software for inventory management;
computer software for data and document capture, storage and
indexing; personal digital assistants; photographic machines
and apparatus; optical machines and apparatus. Designing of systems composed of machines equipped with
radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; designing of
machines, apparatus, instruments [including their parts] or
systems composed of such machines, apparatus and
instruments; computer software design, computer programming,
or maintenance of computer software; design, programming and
maintenance of computer systems and provision of advice
relating thereto; configuration, installation, increasing or
adding functions, fault diagnosis, repair, upgrading and
maintenance of computer software; monitoring of computer
systems by remote access; cloud computing; software as a
service [SaaS]; platform as a service [PAAS]; providing
computer programs on data networks; rental of operating
software for accessing and using a cloud computing network;
rental of computers; providing temporary use of
non-downloadable business software; computer software
programming services.
66.
Blister Package, Method For Manufacturing Blister Package, And RF Device Using Blister Package
The present invention provides a blister package including a sheet in which pockets are formed, and a lid material sealing the sheet, wherein the sheet has a first pocket accommodating an RF tag and a second pocket accommodating an article at a position separated from the first pocket.
B65D 75/36 - Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding one or both sheets or blanks being recessed to accommodate contents one sheet or blank being recessed and the other formed of relatively stiff flat sheet material, e.g. blister packages
B65D 75/54 - Cards, coupons, or other inserts or accessories
B65B 11/52 - Enclosing articles, or quantities of material, by disposing contents between two sheets, e.g. pocketed sheets, and securing their opposed free margins one sheet being rendered plastic, e.g. by heating, and forced by fluid pressure, e.g. vacuum, into engagement with the other sheet and contents, e.g. skin-packaging
A61J 1/03 - Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes for pills or tablets
G06K 19/077 - Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
The present invention is an IC chip mounting apparatus including: a conveyor configured to convey an antenna continuous body on a conveying surface, the antenna continuous body having a base material and plural inlay antennas continuously formed on the base material; an IC chip placement unit configured to place an IC chip on a photo-curable adhesive that is located on a reference position of each antenna in the antenna continuous body; and a light irradiator configured to irradiate, with light, the adhesive of each antenna of the antenna continuous body that is conveyed by the conveyor, wherein the light irradiator is configured to irradiate the adhesive of each antenna with the light, while the IC chip on the adhesive is pressed to the antenna.
H01L 21/67 - Apparatus specially adapted for handling semiconductor or electric solid state devices during manufacture or treatment thereof; Apparatus specially adapted for handling wafers during manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or electric solid state devices or components
H01L 21/477 - Thermal treatment for modifying the properties of semiconductor bodies, e.g. annealing, sintering
H01L 21/463 - Mechanical treatment, e.g. grinding, ultrasonic treatment
H01L 21/677 - Apparatus specially adapted for handling semiconductor or electric solid state devices during manufacture or treatment thereof; Apparatus specially adapted for handling wafers during manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or electric solid state devices or components for conveying, e.g. between different work stations
72.
IC CHIP-MOUNTING DEVICE AND IC CHIP-MOUNTING METHOD
The present invention is an IC chip mounting apparatus including: a plurality of nozzles, each movable between a first position and a second position, each configured to suck an IC chip, when located at the first position, and to place the IC chip on the adhesive at the reference position of the corresponding antenna of an antenna continuous body, when located at the second position; a nozzle attachment to which the plurality of nozzles is attached; and a controller configured to control an angular velocity in rotating the nozzle attachment, so that a first nozzle of the plurality of nozzles that reaches the second position later than a non-sucking nozzle, places an IC chip on an antenna corresponding to the non-sucking nozzle, the non-sucking nozzle being a nozzle of the plurality of nozzles that has been determined as not sucking an IC chip.
H01L 21/67 - Apparatus specially adapted for handling semiconductor or electric solid state devices during manufacture or treatment thereof; Apparatus specially adapted for handling wafers during manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or electric solid state devices or components
73.
IC CHIP MOUNTING DEVICE, AND IC CHIP MOUNTING METHOD
The present invention is an IC chip mounting apparatus including: a conveyor configured to convey an antenna continuous body on a conveying surface, the antenna continuous body having a base material and plural inlay antennas continuously formed on the base material; an ejection unit configured to eject a thermosetting adhesive toward a reference position of each antenna in the antenna continuous body; an IC chip placement unit configured to place an IC chip on the adhesive that is located on the reference position of each antenna in the antenna continuous body; a first light irradiator configured to irradiate the adhesive of each antenna with a first light, in the vicinity of a position where an IC chip is located on the conveying surface; and a second light irradiator configured to irradiate the adhesive of each antenna with a second light, at a position downstream from a position where the adhesive is irradiated with the first light.
An embodiment of the present invention is an IC chip mounting apparatus includes: a conveyor configured to convey an antenna continuous body on a conveying surface, the antenna continuous body having a base material and plural inlay antennas continuously formed on the base material, the antenna continuous body having an adhesive and an IC chip placed at a reference position of each of the antennas; a measurement unit configured to measure an interval between adjacent two of the antennas of the antenna continuous body; a press unit moving machine configured to sequentially feed out press units each having a pressing surface, from a waiting position, to move each of the press units along the conveying surface; and a controller configured to control timing of feeding out each of the press units from the waiting position based on the interval measured by the measurement unit, so that the pressing surface of each of the press units presses a predetermined region containing the reference position of each of the antennas on the conveying surface.
The present invention is an IC chip mounting apparatus for mounting an IC chip at a reference position of an inlay antenna while conveying the antenna, the IC chip mounting apparatus including: a nozzle configured to suck an IC chip when located at a first position and to place the IC chip at the reference position of the antenna when located at a second position; a nozzle attachment to which the nozzle is attached; an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of the IC chip sucked by the nozzle; and a correction amount determination unit configured to determine correction amounts for the IC chip sucked by the nozzle, based on the image acquired by the image acquisition unit. The correction amounts includes a first correction amount for correcting an angle of the nozzle around the axis, a second correction amount for correcting a position of the antenna in a conveying direction of the antenna, and a third correction amount for correcting the position of the antenna in a width direction.
H01L 21/67 - Apparatus specially adapted for handling semiconductor or electric solid state devices during manufacture or treatment thereof; Apparatus specially adapted for handling wafers during manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or electric solid state devices or components
H01L 21/68 - Apparatus specially adapted for handling semiconductor or electric solid state devices during manufacture or treatment thereof; Apparatus specially adapted for handling wafers during manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or electric solid state devices or components for positioning, orientation or alignment
H01L 21/683 - Apparatus specially adapted for handling semiconductor or electric solid state devices during manufacture or treatment thereof; Apparatus specially adapted for handling wafers during manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or electric solid state devices or components for supporting or gripping
H01L 21/56 - Encapsulations, e.g. encapsulating layers, coatings
H01L 21/66 - Testing or measuring during manufacture or treatment
76.
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
The present invention is an information processor including: a storage configured to store information related to an area in which a user moves around; a position calculator configured to calculate, based on a transmission signal of a communication device that moves together with the user, positions in the area of the communication device with the lapse of time; and a measuring unit configured to measure time during which each of virtual points continuously exists in a region with movement of the user, each of the virtual points being defined at a point of intersection between virtual lines that are arranged in grid in the area, the region centering at each position that is calculated by the position calculator, wherein a size of the region is set to contain at least two of the virtual points.
G01S 5/02 - Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position-line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations using radio waves
G06Q 30/02 - Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
77.
System and method for printing using extraction setting information
An aspect of the present invention is a printer communicable with an external device in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol. The printer includes: a data reception unit configured to receive data containing a character string to be printed, from the external device; an acquisition unit configured to acquire extraction setting information that is information relating to a method of extracting the character string contained in the data that is received by the data reception unit; an extraction unit configured to, upon receiving the data from the external device, extract the character string from the received data, based on the extraction setting information that is acquired by the acquisition unit; and a print unit configured to print the character string that is extracted by the extraction unit, on a print medium.
The present invention is an information processor including: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire flow line information containing positions and times of a communication device that is attached to a product carrying tool used in an area by a user; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire, based on the flow line information of the communication device acquired by the first acquisition unit, stay time information of each of a plurality of divided regions that divide the area; and a flow line assignment unit configured to assign at least a piece of the flow line information of the communication device as flow line information of the user, based on the stay time information acquired by the second acquisition unit and based on time information set to each of the plurality of divided regions.
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42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Barcode printers; thermal printers; Computer printers for printing documents, barcodes, photos and labels of paper, cardboard and plastic; labels carrying electronically recorded or encoded information with integrated RFID chips; radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags; tags carrying electronically recorded or encoded information with incorporating integrated circuit chips; radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; integrated circuit tag readers; bar code readers; data processing apparatus; scanners being data processing equipment; bar code scanners; downloadable and recorded computer programs for storing and managing electronic data; downloadable and recorded computer programs for use in database management; downloadable and recorded computer programs for upload, storage, retrieval, download, transmission and delivery of data of bar-code labels, labels and tags for use in the field of printing; downloadable and recorded computer programs for inventory management; downloadable and recorded computer programs for measuring environmental parameters including air temperature, humidity, mold, bacteria, air quality and water quality; downloadable and recorded computer programs for quality control of goods, namely, management of food and beverages having expiration dates; downloadable and recorded computer programs for quality control of goods, namely, management of commodities having specific storage requirements; downloadable and recorded computer programs for the analysis of consumer buying habits in the field of commodity shopping, warehousing, shipping, and storage logistics; downloadable and recorded computer programs for operating, analyzing, running and authenticating point-of-sale system; downloadable and recorded computer programs for detecting, locating and tracking articles, people and pets using radio frequency, global positioning systems and cellular communication networks; downloadable and recorded computer programs for business management of logistics for others; downloadable and recorded computer programs for reading radio frequency tags for checking the authenticity of objects; downloadable and recorded computer programs for image recognition for checking the authenticity of objects; downloadable and recorded computer programs for use in reading electronic tags to provide information to consumers and traders about the origin of the goods, the production of energy, and the treatment, recycling, transformation and incineration of waste; downloadable and recorded computer programs for reminding a person to take or give medication and/or to remind a person of daily routines; downloadable computer programs for remote monitoring of radio frequency identification systems; downloadable computer programs for asset management utilizing information from radio frequency tags; downloadable computer software for inventory management; downloadable computer software for data and document capture, storage and indexing; personal digital assistants; photographic machines and apparatus, namely, cameras; optical machines and apparatus, namely, periscopes, binoculars, telescopes, and microscopes Designing of systems composed of machines equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; designing of machines, apparatus, instruments, and parts thereof, and systems composed of such machines, apparatus, instruments, and parts thereof; computer software design, computer programming, and maintenance of computer software; design, programming and maintenance of computer software for computer systems and provision of advice relating thereto; configuration, installation, increasing or adding functions, fault diagnosis, repair, upgrading and maintenance of computer software; monitoring the operation of computer systems by remote access; cloud computing featuring software for use in database management; software as a service (SaaS) featuring software for use in database management and for upload, storage, retrieval, download, transmission and delivery of data of bar-code labels, labels and tags for use in the field of printing; rental of computers; platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms for use in database management; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for storing and managing electronic data; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for use in database management; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for upload, storage, retrieval, download, transmission and delivery of data of bar-code labels, labels and tags for use in the field of printing; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for inventory management; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for measuring environmental parameters, namely, air temperature, humidity, mold, bacteria, air quality and water quality; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for quality control of goods, namely, management of food and beverages having expiration dates; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for quality control of goods, namely, management of commodities having specific storage requirements; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for the data analysis of consumer buying habits; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable operating, analyzing, running and authenticating software for point-of-sale system; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for detecting, locating and tracking articles, people and pets using radio frequency, global positioning systems and cellular communication networks; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for business management of logistics for others; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for property asset management services; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for reading radio frequency tags for checking the authenticity of objects; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for image recognition for checking the authenticity of objects; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for reading RFID chips on products in order to provide information to consumers and traders about the origin of the goods, the production of energy, and the treatment, recycling, transformation and incineration of waste using electronic tags; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for reminding a person to take or give medication and/or to remind a person of daily routines; rental of operating software for accessing and using a cloud computing network; computer software programming services
An embodiment of the present invention is a printer that performs printing on a printing medium having a thermosensitve coloring layer. This printer comprises: a thermal head having a plurality of heat-generating elements arranged in a line; a pulse setting unit which sets a first application period for an energizing pulse which is for providing, to the plurality of heat-generating elements, thermal energy to cause coloring of a thermosensitive coloring layer in a printing cycle of one line; an application period correction unit which, on the basis of an image of a printing target, corrects the length of the first application period that was set by the pulse setting unit; and a printing speed determination unit which, by lengthening the printing cycle so as to accommodate the maximum length of the first application period after being corrected by the application period correction unit, determines a printing speed when the entirety of an image is to be printed at a constant speed.
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a printer that performs printing on a printing medium having a thermal coloring layer. This printer is provided with: a thermal head having a plurality of heat generation elements arrayed in a line shape; a pulse setting unit that sets a first application period of an energization pulse for applying thermal energy to develop a color of a thermal coloring layer to the plurality of heat generation elements in a one-line printing cycle; a first correction unit that corrects a printing speed for printing so as to be decelerated from a previously-set printing speed before performing printing on a printing medium; and a second correction unit that corrects a printing speed after the correction by the first correction unit and/or the length of the first application period so that a difference in the ratio of the first application period of the energization pulse to the printing cycle becomes a predetermined value or less before and after correction of the printing speed by the first correction unit.
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Computer software for designing and printing tags, labels and sheets; computer programs for designing and printing tags, labels and sheets; barcode printers; thermal printers; printers for labels, tags and sheets Design, development or maintenance of computer programs; providing information in the field of design, development or maintenance of computer programs; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable computer software programs for use in printing from smartphones and tablets
This conveyance roller mechanism, which conveys continuous paper while sandwiching the continuous paper between a first roller and a second roller facing each other, comprises: a plate-shaped first support member that supports the first roller; and a plate-shaped second support member that supports the first support member. The first roller sandwiches the continuous paper between the first roller and the second roller by the deflection reaction force of the first support member.
One embodiment of the present invention is an information processing system comprising: a first wireless tag that is attached to a seat surface or a backrest surface of a seat and that stores unique tag identification information; and an information processing device having a storage unit that associates a user of the seat with the tag identification information of the wireless tag attached to the seat and stores the same. The information processing device has: an acquisition unit that acquires the tag identification information when the first wireless tag has transmitted a signal that includes the tag identification information; and a control unit that determines whether a user is sitting in the seat on the basis of whether or not the tag identification information was acquired.
This label structure comprises a base material including, on a top surface thereof, a printed region in which information arranged in a prescribed direction is printed, an adhesive portion in which an adhesive agent is laminated onto a rear surface of the base material, and a separator covering the adhesive portion, wherein: a base material demarcating portion demarcated by means of base material cutting lines is formed in at least the printed region of the base material; the base material demarcating portion includes a plurality of intersecting portions extending in a direction intersecting the prescribed direction; and a separator demarcating portion demarcated by means of separator cutting lines is formed in the separator, in a region corresponding to at least a part of a region corresponding to the base material demarcating portion.
One aspect of the present invention is an information processing device including: a storage unit that stores information about an item and identification information about a wireless tag attached to the item; and a control unit that associates, when receiving the identification information of the wireless tag attached to the item from an item acquisitor terminal owned by an item acquisitor who is to acquire the item, information about the item acquisitor with the identification information of the wireless tag. When the information about the item acquisitor and the identification information of the wireless tag are associated to each other, the control unit performs control so as to allow the information about the item stored in the storage unit to be provided to the item acquisitor terminal.
An information processing system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a user terminal possessed by a user, and an information processing device that can communicate with the user terminal. The user terminal has: a first acquisition unit that acquires product information relating to a product, and time limit information relating to the expiration date of the product; and a display control unit that displays, on a display unit, product stock information for a user acquired from the information processing device. The information processing device has: a second acquisition unit that, when the product is settled by the user, acquires, as product stock information of the user, the product information and expiration date information acquired by the user terminal; and a provision unit that provides to the user terminal the product stock information of the user obtained by the second acquisition unit, on the basis of a request from the user.
This analysis system comprises a first device that senses the position of a person in a space in which an object is present, a second device that is different from the first device and that senses the position of the object, and an analysis device that analyses the behavior of the person, the analysis device analyzing the behavior of the person with respect to the object on the basis of the relationship between the position of the person acquired from the first device and the position of the object acquired from the second device.
G01S 5/02 - Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position-line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations using radio waves
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DISPLAY SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL PROGRAM
This display system comprises a first device that detects the position of a person in a space where there is an object, a second device that is different from the first device and detects the position of the object, and a control device that displays information on a display device. The control device integrates information on a change between the position of the person at a specific time and the position of the person at a time different from the specific time, which are acquired from the first device, and information on a change between the position of the object at the specific time and the position of the object at the time different from the specific time, which are acquired from the second device, and displays the integrated information on the display device.
A printer, which is configured to print information on a print medium and issue the printed print medium, includes: a storage configured to store affixing position information relating to an affixing position in affixing the print medium to an item, in association with item information for identifying the item; a reception unit configured to receive input of the item information; an acquisition unit configured to acquire from the storage the affixing position information associated with the item information, based on the item information received by the reception unit; and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the affixing position information that is acquired by the acquisition unit.
B41J 3/50 - Mechanisms producing characters by printing and also producing a record by other means
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41J 29/393 - Devices for controlling or analysing the entire machine
H04N 1/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details thereof
H04N 1/32 - Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver
According to an aspect of the present invention, a printer issues printing media, and is provided with: a rechargeable battery that supplies power to the printer; a printing unit that prints information on the printing media; a display unit; and a control unit. When the amount of remaining battery charge that decreases each time one sheet of printing media is issued is A, the present remaining charge is B, and the lower limit of the remaining charge is C, the control unit calculates A, on the basis of the amount of remaining-charge decrease from a reference point in time up to the present, and a total figure for printing-sheet count from the reference point up to the present. The control unit then computes (B−C) ∕ A, thereby calculating a number of printing media sheets issuable, and causes the display unit to display the number issuable.
An aspect of the present invention provides a printer that performs printing on a printing medium, the printer comprising a thermal head having a plurality of heat generating elements arrayed in a line shape, and a control unit that controls heat energy to the plurality of heat generating elements depending on the presence or absence of application of an energization pulse for a plurality of periods set in advance in a printing cycle of one line, on the basis of image data. Here, the plurality of periods in the printing cycle are set in an order from a long period to a short period.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
10 - Medical apparatus and instruments
20 - Furniture and decorative products
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Transponders; personal digital assistants; data processing apparatus and structural parts and fittings therefor; radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags; integrated circuit tag readers; electronic tags for goods incorporating integrated circuit chips; encoded smart cards, namely, integrated circuit cards containing programming used for operating radio- frequency identification (RFID) readers and specially adapted storage racks associated therewith; integrated circuit card readers; integrated circuits; computer hardware for data processing; downloadable and recorded computer programs for use in remote monitoring systems, namely, computer software for use in tracking the location of medical apparatus, medical equipment and medical instruments for use in hospitals; downloadable and recorded computer programs for inventory management; barcode printers; printers, namely, thermal printers, laser computer printers for printing documents; data processing equipment, namely, scanners; computer network servers; electronic machines, apparatus and their structural parts, namely, electronic surveillance apparatus comprising RFID readers Cases fitted for medical instruments for use by doctors; cases fitted for medical instruments; cabinets for medical instruments, equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers and which function to keep blood and blood serum in a frozen or refrigerated state Storage racks for pharmaceutical preparations and chemicals, equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; storage racks equipped with temperature controls; storage racks; medicine cabinets equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; key cabinets equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; cabinets for keeping blood and blood serum in a frozen or refrigerated state, equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; cabinets; office furniture; furniture Repair and maintenance of radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; repair and maintenance of computer hardware; repair and maintenance of mechanical equipment for computer networks and their peripherals; repair and maintenance of electronic machines and apparatus; repair and maintenance of telecommunications equipment; repair and maintenance of storage racks equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; repair of furniture; repair and maintenance of medical apparatus and instruments Custom manufacture of telecommunication apparatus and electronic apparatus, in particular, cabinets with built-in RFID readers, and cabinets with built-in RFID readers and cooling or freezing functions Design of telecommunications apparatus and equipment; design of radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers and their structural parts; design of telecommunication apparatus and equipment with built-in RFID readers; designing of medical equipment and their structural parts; computer software design, computer programming, or maintenance of computer software; provision of technological advice relating to RFID readers, computers, and industrial machines, namely, technological consultation in the field of selecting RFID inventory tracking and monitoring system; rental of computers; provision of on-line non-downloadable computer programs for inventory management; rental of radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
10 - Medical apparatus and instruments
20 - Furniture and decorative products
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Transponders; personal digital assistants; data processing apparatus and structural parts and fittings therefor; radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags; integrated circuit tag readers; electronic tags for goods incorporating integrated circuit chips; encoded smart cards, namely, integrated circuit cards containing programming used for operating radio- frequency identification (RFID) readers and specially adapted storage racks associated therewith; integrated circuit card readers; integrated circuits; computer hardware for data processing; downloadable and recorded computer programs for use in remote monitoring systems, namely, computer software for use in tracking the location of medical apparatus, medical equipment and medical instruments for use in hospitals; downloadable and recorded computer programs for inventory management; barcode printers; printers, namely, thermal printers, laser computer printers for printing documents; data processing equipment, namely, scanners; computer network servers; electronic machines, apparatus and their structural parts, namely, electronic surveillance apparatus comprising RFID readers Cases fitted for medical instruments for use by doctors; cases fitted for medical instruments; cabinets for medical instruments, equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers and which function to keep blood and blood serum in a frozen or refrigerated state Storage racks for pharmaceutical preparations and chemicals, equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; storage racks equipped with temperature controls; storage racks; medicine cabinets equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; key cabinets equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; cabinets for keeping blood and blood serum in a frozen or refrigerated state, equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; cabinets; office furniture; furniture Repair and maintenance of radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; repair and maintenance of computer hardware; repair and maintenance of mechanical equipment for computer networks and their peripherals; repair and maintenance of electronic machines and apparatus; repair and maintenance of telecommunications equipment; repair and maintenance of storage racks equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers; repair of furniture; repair and maintenance of medical apparatus and instruments Custom manufacture of electrical apparatus and electronic apparatus, in particular, cabinets with built-in RFID readers, and cabinets with built-in RFID readers and cooling or freezing functions Design of telecommunications apparatus and equipment; design of radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers and their structural parts; design of telecommunication apparatus and equipment with built-in RFID readers; designing of medical equipment and their structural parts; computer software design, computer programming, or maintenance of computer software; provision of technological advice relating to RFID readers, computers, and industrial machines, namely, technological consultation in the field of selecting RFID inventory tracking and monitoring system; rental of computers; provision of on-line non-downloadable computer programs for inventory management; rental of radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Bar code printers; thermal printers; computer printers;
biometric identification apparatus; downloadable cloud
computing software; computer software for use with computer
printers and label printers; computer software for
authenticating the identification of users; downloadable
computer software; computer programs, downloadable; computer
programs for remote monitoring systems. Design, programming and maintenance of computer software;
consultancy relating to design, programming and maintenance
of computer software; providing temporary use of
non-downloadable computer software for use with computer
printers and label printers; providing temporary use of
non-downloadable computer software for authenticating the
identification of users; providing user authentication
services using single sign-on technology for online software
applications; user authentication services using single
sign-on technology for online software applications;
identity verification [computer security]; verification of
personal identification [computer security]; user
authentication services using technology for e-commerce
transactions; hosting computer software and software
applications; providing computer programs on data networks;
cloud computing; cloud storage services for electronic data;
cloud storage services for electronic files; rental of
operating software for accessing and using a cloud computing
network; software as a service [SaaS]; platform as a service
[PaaS]; monitoring of computer systems by remote access.
This wristband comprises: a belt-shaped band part; and an adhesive part that is layered onto one end of the band part. The wristband forms a ring shape by attaching the adhesive part to a portion of the band part. A plurality of first rupture slits are formed in a radial shape at the end where the adhesive part is formed. The first rupture slits each have two parallel first line segments, and a second line segment that mutually connects one end of each of the first line segments and that is longer than the first line segments. The first rupture slits are formed such that an opening, which is formed by the first line segments and the second line segment, is directed toward the radial center.
One aspect of the present invention is an RFID label in which a label base material, an RFID antenna, an IC chip, and an adhesive layer are laminated in this order. The label base material is thermal paper having a heat-sensitive color former layer on one surface thereof. The RFID antenna is provided on the other surface of the label substrate. The IC chip is connected to the RFID antenna by an ultraviolet curable anisotropic conductive adhesive.
An RFID system (200) includes an RFID reader (202), an antenna array (204) and a length compensation unit (215). The RFID reader (202) is configured to interrogate RFID antennas. The antenna array (204) includes two or more RFID antennas (206) connectable to the RFID reader (202) via a series of cable links (208). Each RFID antenna (206) is associated with a respective cable link (208), and each cable link (208) has a cable length. The length compensation unit (215) is associated with each RFID antenna (206), and is configured to adjust a total cable length between the RFID reader (202) and a respective RFID antenna (206) to be an effective cable length.
Provided is an information processing system including a user terminal owned by a user, and a server capable of communicating with the user terminal. In the information processing system, the user terminal includes an acquisition unit that acquires product information of a product and date information relating to an expiration date of the product, and a display control unit that displays information containing an offer price of the product acquired from a server on a display unit, and the server includes a price determination unit that determines the offer price of the product on the basis of the product information and the date information acquired from the user terminal and measurement information acquired from a measurement apparatus that measures the weight of the product, and a price information provision unit that provides information containing the offer price of the product determined by the price determination unit to the user terminal.
This printer performs printing on a print medium having an RFID, and comprises: a communication unit which has a communication part movably provided in a predetermined area along the transport surface of the print medium, and communicates with an IC chip of the RFID; and a detection unit which detects the print medium by means of detection light. The detection unit includes: a light emitting part that emits detection light; a light guide member that guides the detection light emitted from the light emitting part to the print medium; and a light receiving part that receives the detection light via the print medium.