Information card producing device

Abstract

Recording units including a printer for printing information data on at least one surface of a recording medium card are arranged vertically one over another in an information card producing device. Card turning portions are disposed confronting the respective recording units, so that the card can be transferred between the card turning portions and the recording units and turned over, thereby recording the desired information data on one or both of the surface of the card. The recording unit includes a magnetic encoder and / or IC memory reader / writer and has a function of verifying the information data written to the card so as to send out the card to a card discharge port when adequately recorded or to a card reject port when a write error is found.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the InventionThis invention relates to a device for producing information cards on which various data such as personal information are recorded, and more particularly to an information card producing device intensively incorporating a plurality of recording units necessary for recording information on an information card, which includes one or more printer units for printing visible data such as letters, images and the like on the card, a magnetic encoder for magnetically recording various information data on the card, and an IC memory reader / writer.2. Description of the Prior ArtThere have been adopted information card producing devices for the purpose of printing visible information such as letters, bar code patterns, pictures and the like on the surface of an information card serving as an information recording medium such as ID (identification) plastic cards, credit plastic cards and IC cards, and magnetically or electronically recording va...

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Benefits of technology

One object of the present invention is to provide an information card producing device having a simple structure capable of intensively incorporating recording units such as printing means and a magnetic encoder, card supply unit and card discharge unit, which is well-matched as one of components constituting an office automation equipment or the like and can be heightened in marketability and handling property.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an information card producing device capable of rationally arranging a plurality of recording units including printing, means and a magnetic encoder along a card transfer portion so as to stably transfer and turn over an information card fed through the card transfer portion, thereby to produce high quality information-recorded cards.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide an information card producing device having card turning means capable of stably and accurately turning the card without bringing about dislocation of the card by use of a reliable and case control system when turning over the card in a card transfer portion, thereby to increase the accuracy of writing data and stability.

Problems solved by technology

Accordingly, the device singularly lengthens compared with the width of the device and is made unsightly so much as to be incongruous with peripheral components as one of office automation equipments and so forth.

Therefore, the long device becomes awkward to handle and not sufficiently unmarketable.

However, in the card producing device in which the component elements are arranged on the line along the straight card feeding path extending from a card entrance to a card exit, the card reject portion serving as a second card exit is difficult to dispose.

The card turning means however requires a complicated mechanism and highly skilled controlling technique for preventing the card held by the rollers from being dislocated during the turning operation.

However, disadvantageously, the complicated card turning mechanism found in the conventional device suffers from operational inefficiency and instability, and inevitably turns out to be expensive.

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