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US 12,600,154 B2Granted
Printer apparatus
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshihiro Sone
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Abstract
According to an embodiment, a printer apparatus includes a guide member that guides an ink ribbon and a print sheet nipped by a thermal head and a platen roller and guides only the ink ribbon after the printing towards the winding reel. The printer apparatus further includes a sheet-like elastic member attached to a surface of surfaces in contact with the ink ribbon of the guide member, the surface guiding only the ink ribbon after the printing towards the winding reel.
Claims11
A heat-transfer printer apparatus, comprising:
- a single driving source that generates a driving force for conveying a print sheet and an ink ribbon;
- a printing head that performs printing on the print sheet conveyed by the driving force by heating the ink ribbon conveyed by the driving force;
- a platen roller that is provided in opposite to the printing head and conveys the ink ribbon and the print sheet overlapping each other while nipping the ink ribbon and the print sheet between the platen roller and the printing head;
- a winding reel around which the ink ribbon is wound after the printing;
- a guide member that has a first part with which the ink ribbon and the print sheet nipped by the printing head and the platen roller are guided and a second part with which only the ink ribbon after the printing is guided towards the winding reel;
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- a sheet-like elastic member attached to the second part of the guide member, wherein a surface of the sheet-like elastic member extends in a first direction towards the winding reel, and the ink ribbon guided with the second part of the guide member is aligned in the first direction and is in surface contact with the surface of the sheet-like elastic member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.