Patent ID: 8360123
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A tag label producing apparatus comprising: a cartridge holder capable of loading/removing a cartridge that supplies a tag tape including an RFID circuit element comprising an IC circuit part that stores information and a tag antenna that transmits and receives information; at least one feeding roller that feeds said tag tape supplied from said cartridge along a feeding path at a predetermined speed; a printing device that performs desired printing on said tag tape or on a print-receiving tape bonded to said tag tape; and an apparatus antenna located downstream from said printing device in a transport direction along said feeding path, that transmits and receives information to and from said RFID circuit element by wireless communication; wherein: said feeding roller includes a nearest roller being closest to said apparatus antenna in an area located upstream from said apparatus antenna along said feeding path, that transmits and receives information to and from said RFID circuit element by wireless communication; wherein and said feeding roller includes a nearest roller being closest to said apparatus antenna in an area located upstream from said apparatus antenna along said feeding path, and said apparatus antenna is disposed in a position that is away from said nearest roller along said feeding path with a predetermined distance, and wherein said tag label producing apparatus further comprises: a cutting device that cuts an entire thickness of said tag tape in which information transmission/reception by using said apparatus antenna and a printing by said printing device are completed so at to produce an RFID label with print, said cutting device being disposed between said nearest roller and said apparatus antenna; a half-cutting device that partially cuts in a thickness direction of said tag tape in which information transmission/reception by using said apparatus antenna and a printing by said printing device are completed, said half-cutting device being disposed at a portion between said nearest roller and said apparatus antenna; a communication control portion that controls said apparatus antenna such that information transmission/reception is performed with said RFID circuit element by wireless communication when said RFID circuit element substantially opposes said apparatus antenna; and; a control portion configured for controlling said feeding roller such that a feeding of said tag tape is slowed or stopped after said IC circuit part is fed downstream from said nearest roller in said transport direction so that a time between when the IC circuit passes said nearest roller and when said information transmission/reception is performed with said RFID circuit element is at least a predetermined restoration setting time; whereby an interior stress in said RFID circuit element due to pressure from said nearest roller to said RFID circuit is dissipated when information transmission/reception is performed.