US 12,611,877 B2Granted

Printer

AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorMotohito Tsuchiya

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Abstract

A printer includes: a paper holding unit holding a roll paper; a printing unit printing on the paper pulled out from the paper holding unit; and a box-shaped casing housing the paper holding unit and the printing unit, the casing includes: a plate-shaped cover portion; and a main body portion being a portion other than the cover portion, wherein, in an attaching structure in which the cover portion is detachably attached to the main body portion, the cover portion can be attached in any direction where one of a first surface being one surface of the plate-shaped cover portion and a second surface being the other surface in a direction faces the main body portion, and the cover portion has a supporting portion detachably supporting an optional unit performing a predetermined process on the paper in any one of the first surface or the second surface.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A printer, comprising:

a paper holding component holding a roll paper wrapped in a strip-shaped paper;
a printing component printing on the roll paper pulled out from the paper holding component;
and
a box-shaped casing housing the paper holding component and the printing component,
wherein the box-shaped casing includes:
a plate-shaped cover portion constituting at least a portion of a surface provided with a paper discharge port for discharging the roll paper after printing;
and
a main body portion being a portion other than the cover portion,
wherein, in an attaching structure in which the cover portion is detachably attached to the main body portion, the cover portion is configured to be reversibly attached in which one of a first surface being one surface of the plate-shaped cover portion and a second surface being an other surface of the plate-shaped cover portion faces the main body portion, and
wherein the cover portion has a supporting portion detachably supporting an optional component performing a predetermined process on the roll paper in one of the first surface or the second surface.

7 more elements

A thermal printer, comprising:

a paper holding component holding a roll paper wrapped in a strip-shaped paper;
a thermal printing component printing on the roll paper pulled out from the paper holding component;
and
a box-shaped casing housing the paper holding component and the thermal printing component,
wherein the box-shaped casing includes:
a plate-shaped cover portion constituting at least a portion of a surface provided with a paper discharge port for discharging the roll paper after thermal printing;
and
a main body portion being a portion other than the cover portion,
wherein, in an attaching structure in which the cover portion is detachably attached to the main body portion, the cover portion is configured to be reversibly attached in which one of a first surface being one surface of the plate-shaped cover portion and a second surface being an other surface of the plate-shaped cover portion faces the main body portion, and
wherein the cover portion has a supporting portion detachably supporting an optional component performing a predetermined process on the roll paper in one of the first surface or the second surface.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/429,483Filed 1 Feb 2024
Published: US 2024/0316967 A126 Sep 2024
Granted: 28 Apr 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B41J 29/02
Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for: framework
B41J 2/32
Characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material: using thermal heads
B41J 3/4075
For marking on special material: tape printers; Label printers
B41J 11/666
Applications of cutting devices: cutting partly, e.g. cutting only the uppermost layer of a multiple-layer printing material