Devices relating to rolled product

• US 7,110,911 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2004
• Issued: 09/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakayama, Takehiko, Nakagiri, Masayuki, Fujita, Taijiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Bui, Bryan
• Assistant Examiner(s): LE, JOHN H
• Application Number:
  US11/025,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20050139099A1
• Time in Patent Office: 628 Days
• Field of Search: 702/156, 702/158, 702/155, 702/166, 702/170, 702/172, 702/173, 702/175, 702/159, 356/625, 356/627, 356628-630, 356/634, 356/635, 367/99, 367/128, 101/38.1, 101/43, 264/610
• US Class Current: 702/159
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/009 Detecting type of paper, e.g. by automatic reading of a code that is printed on a paper package or on a paper roll or by sensing the grade of translucency of the paper
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/4073 Printing on three-dimensional objects not being in sheet or web form, e.g. spherical or cubic objects B41J3/283, B41J3/286 take precedence; building up a 3D object using individual droplets from jetting heads B29C64/112
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 18/00 Winding webs
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 23/0216 with an element utilising photoelectric effect
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 11/046 for measuring width

Abstract

A code applying device is provided which can efficiently manufacture an information recording paper roll having a code relating to the information recording paper. The code applying device includes a tubular body holding section which holds a tubular body and can rotate around an axis; a code forming section forming a code, which expresses specific information, on an end surface of the tubular body held by the tubular body holding section; and a control section rotating the tubular holding section which is holding the tubular body, and applying the code to the end surface of the tubular body along a peripheral direction.

Claims

1. A dimension measuring device comprising:

a tubular body holding device holding a tubular body;

a light irradiating device irradiating lights, in strip form, to illumination regions which are regions including end portions of the tubular body, and scanning the lights along a direction orthogonal to an axis of the tubular body;

a light receiving device receiving the lights emitted from the light irradiating device; and

a dimension computing device computing a dimension, along an axial direction, of the tubular body from changes in amounts of the lights received by the light receiving device at both end portions of the tubular body.

2. The dimension measuring device of claim 1, wherein the tubular body holding device is fixed, and the light irradiating device and the light receiving device are integral and movable along the direction orthogonal to the axis of the tubular body.

3. The dimension measuring device of claim 1, wherein the light irradiating device has:

a first irradiating portion irradiating light to one end portion of the tubular body; and

a second irradiating portion irradiating light to another end portion of the tubular body.

4. The dimension measuring device of claim 1, wherein the light irradiating device is a laser light irradiating device, which irradiates laser light.

5. The dimension measuring device of claim 1, wherein the tubular body has:

a core which is one of hollow cylindrical and solid cylindrical; and

a strip-shaped sheet wound in a roll form on the core.

6. The dimension measuring device of claim 5, wherein the core is a paper tube, and the sheet is an information recording paper.

7. The dimension measuring device of claim 1, wherein the dimension computing device:

(a) determines a valid range of received light amount data at the light receiving device, from an external diameter of the tubular body inputted in advance;

(b) prepares, for each end portion of the tubular body, a received light amount curve expressing a relationship between received light amounts at the light receiving device and scanned distances which are distances over which the light has been scanned;

(c) determines a distance, from a stipulated position, of a minimum light receipt portion in each received light amount curve, which minimum light receipt portion expresses a minimum received light amount;

(d) determines an axial direction dimension of the tubular body, which is a dimension between ends projecting the most at both ends of the tubular body, by converting the determined distances.

8. The dimension measuring device of claim 7, wherein the dimension computing device carries out waveform processing for eliminating noise whose magnitude is a given value n₁ or more.