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US 10,525,743 B2Granted
Printer
AssigneeFujitsu Component Limited
InventorsTetsuhiro Ishikawa, Masahiro Tsuchiya
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Abstract
A printer includes: a holding member configured to hold a roll of paper; an elastic member configured to support the holding member so that the holding member is slidable in a vertical direction; a first detection unit configured to detect a position of the holding member; and a second detection unit that detects a near-end of the roll of paper based on a detection result by the first detection unit.
Claims6
A printer comprising:
- a holding member configured to hold a roll of paper, be slidably supported in a vertical direction by an elastic member, and a position of the holding member is moved according to a weight of the roll of paper;
- a first detector configured to detect the position of the holding member;
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- a second detector configured to detect a near-end of the roll of paper based on a detection result by the first detector.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.