Mounting Table Rotation Support for Tape Printing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing tape printing systems cannot rotatably support tape rolls with release paper in a cantilever manner, leading to inefficiencies and potential transport failures during tape feeding.
Innovation Solution
A mounting table with a rotation support portion that protrudes from its surface, inserts into a shaft portion of the tape supply section, allowing the tape supply section to be rotatably supported, enabling cantilever-style support and reducing friction resistance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If tape rolls with release paper are supported using traditional two-arm cartridge support structure, then the structure can hold the tape cartridge, but the tape roll cannot be rotatably supported in a cantilever manner, causing friction resistance and potential transport failures
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure is segmented into a stationary mounting table body and a rotatable support portion that can independently rotate with the tape roll. This segmentation allows the support function to be divided between the fixed structure and the rotating component, enabling cantilever-style rotation while maintaining structural stability.
Solution Approach 2:
A rotation support portion acts as an intermediary element between the mounting table and the tape supply section. This intermediary component provides the rotational interface, allowing the tape roll to rotate freely while being supported by the mounting table, thereby reducing friction resistance and preventing transport failures.
2Ease of operation
If the tape supply section is fixed on the mounting table, then the structure is simple and stable, but the tape roll cannot rotate smoothly, causing friction and distortion during tape feeding
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting structure incorporates a rotatable support portion that transitions the static mounting system into a dynamic one. This rotating component allows the tape supply section to rotate freely as the tape roll is fed, reducing friction and preventing distortion, while the overall mounting structure remains stable through its fixed mounting table design.
3Reliability
If traditional support arms are used to hold the tape cartridge, then the cartridge can be mounted, but the shaft portion cannot be properly supported for rotation, leading to potential transport failures
Solution Approach 1:
The rotational support function is extracted from the traditional two-arm cartridge support structure and implemented as a separate rotation support portion integrated into the mounting table. This extraction allows the shaft portion to be properly supported for rotation without requiring complex two-arm support mechanisms, simplifying the overall manufacturing process.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration ensures smooth and distortion-free tape feeding by positioning the tape roll below the tape path, preventing transport failures and maintaining tape integrity.
Implementation Method 1
reducing friction resistance
Data Source
AI summary
A mounting table on which a housing section including a tape supply section having a tape roll around which a tape to be sent to a tape printing device is wound, and a housing case that houses the tape supply section is mounted, the mounting table includes: a mounting surface on which the housing section is mounted; and a rotation support portion that is provided to protrude from the mounting surface, is inserted into a shaft portion of the tape supply section when the housing section is mounted on the mounting surface, and rotatably supports the tape supply section.