A thermal head and thermal transfer apparatus.

摘要

A thermal head (10) is used on a thermal transfer recording apparatus which can record a continuous, fine line or curve by recording many dots, by a thermal transfer system, on a recording sheet. The thermal head comprises a one-dimensional array of heat generation element groups (86) each comprised of a plurality of heat generation elements, such as heat generation resistors (12) of, for example, a parallelogram, a diamond or an elliptic configuration, continuously arranged in a direction perpendicular to that in which recording is made on a recording sheet and lead electrodes (13, 14) connected adjacent to each other in predetermined positions, in which the longitudinal sides of the heat generation resistors (12) are made oblique at a predetermined angle.