This is the eighth year since HIT Devices Ltd. was established in Kyoto
Research Park and started developing the heating head as an electronic
component.
Reversible thermal printing and erasing technology (rewritable printing)
combined with RFID which incorporates IC chip, IC card and the IC tag started
to be accepted in the control fields for inventory, production and quality
as the means of making more accurate and faster by making the data contents
visible (mieruka).
The running cost of this technology is very low since the media can be
printed and erased up to 1000 times for some applications and it is becoming
increasingly popular in the usage of productivity improvement. Also, reuse of media makes it possible to recover the valuable materials such as rare metal and it will reduce the environmentally damaging wastes
and undesired gases such as COx.
The heating head used for this technology needed to be thermally precise
and responsive. Besides thermally erasing the rewritable
media, the heating head we developed are finding very wide new applications such as hot stamping, various thermal transfer printing, double transfer printing, toner fusing for electrophotographic image, heat-activated
adhesive processing, laminating, "mirror" coating, nano-imprinting
and micro-reactor.
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| President Hideo Taniguchi |
The current heating devices are capable of heating sizes from
several hundred microns to several hundred millimeters. We are continuing our development and improvement of heating efficiency,
temperature measurement & control method and image recording by application
of special heating element materials
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