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Tape printing machine with IR sensing

US5511891A · kind A · utility

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5Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJun 14, 1994
Grant dateApr 30, 1996
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 14, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41J11/42
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A tape is controlled in a printing machine by advancing a length of tape through a light pathway. Transmittance of the light through the tape is measured and values are stored associated with transmittances through the tape. The tape is advanced to a start position where measured transmittance of the tape at the start position corresponds with a stored value of a measured transmittance.

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