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US 11,331,933 B2Granted
Cassette and system
AssigneeFujitsu Component Limited
InventorsTakeshi Wakui, Sumio Watanabe, Masahiro Yanagi, Toshiya Koyama, Tatsuya Oguchi
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Abstract
A cassette connectable to a printer includes a housing configured to house a recording sheet, a connector that is connected to a feed port of the printer for supplying the recording sheet to the printer, and a sensor group including sensor modules that measure a state in a space surrounded by the housing.
Claims6
A cassette connectable to a printer, the cassette comprising:
- a housing configured to house a recording sheet;
- a connector that is connected to a feed port of the printer for supplying the recording sheet to the printer;
- and
- a sensor group including sensor modules that measure a state in a space surrounded by the housing, wherein
- the housing has an arc shape;
- and
- sensor groups are arranged apart from each other in a direction intersecting a circumferential direction of an inner surface of the housing.
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A cassette connectable to a printer, the cassette comprising:
- a housing configured to house a recording sheet;
- a connector that is connected to a feed port of the printer for supplying the recording sheet to the printer;
- and
- a sensor group including sensor modules that measure a state in a space surrounded by the housing, wherein
- the housing has an arc shape;
- sensor groups are arranged apart from each other in a direction intersecting a circumferential direction of an inner surface of the housing;
- the housing includes an arm that is slidable in the circumferential direction of the inner surface;
- and
- at least one of the sensor groups is disposed on the arm.
6 more elements
A cassette connectable to a printer, the cassette comprising:
- a housing configured to house a recording sheet;
- a connector that is connected to a feed port of the printer for supplying the recording sheet to the printer;
- a sensor group including sensor modules that measure a state in a space surrounded by the housing;
- and
- a wiring disposed inside of the housing, wherein
- the wiring includes different connection patterns corresponding to positions of the openings;
- each sensor module includes position detection terminals;
- and
- the sensor module determines a position of the sensor module based on a combination of the position detection terminals that are electrically connected to any of the connection patterns.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.