Recording tape cartridge and barcode label reissuing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11080499-B2
Application number	US-202016842774-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2020
Priority date	Apr 15, 2019
Publication date	Aug 3, 2021
Grant date	Aug 3, 2021

Abstract

A recording tape cartridge includes a case that accommodates a reel around which a recording tape is wound and a label that is attached to a label surface formed at a wall surface of the case. The wall surface is located at a side opposite to a direction in which the case is loaded into a drive device. The label includes a first label layer that is attached to the label surface and on which individual identification information is displayed in a two-dimensional code, and a second label layer attached to the first label layer with a peelable bonding force, the second label layer being capable of covering and concealing the two-dimensional code, and the individual identification information being displayed in a barcode on the second label layer. The two-dimensional code is displayed at a central part in a longitudinal direction of the label.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A recording tape cartridge comprising:
a case that accommodates a reel around which a recording tape is wound; and
a label that is attached to a label surface formed at a wall surface of the case, the wall surface being located at a side opposite to a direction in which the case is loaded into a drive device,
wherein the label comprises:
a first label layer that is attached to the label surface and on which individual identification information is displayed in a two-dimensional code; and
a second label layer attached to the first label layer with a peelable bonding force, the second label layer being capable of covering and concealing the two-dimensional code, and the individual identification information being displayed in a barcode on the second label layer, and

wherein the two-dimensional code is displayed at a central part in a longitudinal direction of the label.

2. The recording tape cartridge according to claim 1 , wherein a bonding force of the second label layer for attaching the second label layer to a periphery of the two-dimensional code of the first label layer is weaker than a bonding force of the second label layer for attaching the second label layer to both ends in a longitudinal direction of the first label layer.

3. The recording tape cartridge according to claim 1 , wherein a bonding force of the second label layer for attaching the second label layer to a periphery of the two-dimensional code of the first label layer is weaker than a bonding force of the second label layer for attaching the second label layer to a peripheral edge of the first label layer.

4. The recording tape cartridge according to claim 1 , wherein the first label layer is made of a thermosensitive paper.

5. A method for reissuing a barcode label for a recording tape cartridge comprising a case that accommodates a reel around which a recording tape is wound and a label attached to a label surface formed at a wall surface of the case, the wall surface being located at a side opposite to a direction in which the case is loaded into a drive device, wherein the label includes a first label layer, attached to the label surface, on which individual identification information is displayed in a two-dimensional code and a second label layer attached to the first label layer with a peelable bonding force, the second label layer being capable of covering and concealing the two-dimensional code, the individual identification information being displayed in a barcode on the second label layer, and the two-dimensional code being displayed at a central part in a longitudinal direction of the label, the method comprising:
peeling off the second label layer from the label attached to the label surface of the recording tape cartridge;
reading the two-dimensional code displayed on the first label layer from which the second label layer has been peeled off; and
creating a new second label layer on which the individual identification information is displayed in a barcode, based on the two-dimensional code read on the first label layer.

6. The method for reissuing a barcode label according to claim 5 , further comprising:
reading the barcode displayed on the new second label layer after attaching the created new second label layer to the first label layer.

7. The method for reissuing a barcode label according to claim 6 , further comprising:
registering barcode information that has been read at an RFID identifier provided at the case.

8. The method for reissuing a barcode label according to claim 5 , wherein the peeling of the second label layer is initiated in a case in which the barcode of the second label layer cannot be read.

Assignees

• Fujifilm Corp

Inventors

• Osako ryosuke
• Sumiya Yosuke

Classifications

• B32B2250/44

  Number of layers variable across the laminate · CPC title

• G06K19/06037

  multi-dimensional coding · CPC title

• G06K7/1417 Primary

  2D bar codes · CPC title

• G06K1/121

  by printing code marks (applying code marks to labels B65C9/46; marking or coding completed packages B65B61/26) · CPC title

• B32B2307/732

  Dimensional properties · CPC title