Printer
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuki Takagi, Akira Suzuki
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Abstract
A printer includes a body having an opening; a lid that is rotated to open and close the opening, a sheet discharge port being formed between the lid and the body when the lid is in a closed position; a printing mechanism; a first sensor that is disposed closer to a first end of the lid and is capable of detecting whether the first end of the lid is in the closed position; a movable part that is provided on one of the lid and the body and moves when pressed by a jammed sheet; and a second sensor that is provided on another one of the lid and the body at a position closer to a second end of the lid to detect the movable part and is capable of detecting that the second end is not in the closed position and the movable part is moved.
Claims20
A printer comprising:
- a body including a holder that holds a strip-shaped sheet and having an opening;
- a lid one side of which is rotatably supported along an edge of the opening and that is rotated to open and close the opening, a sheet discharge port being formed between the lid and a part of the body when the lid is in a closed position to close the opening, the lid having a first end and a second end opposite the first end in a width direction of the lid;
- a printing mechanism that performs printing on the sheet;
- a first sensor that is disposed closer to the first end of the lid than to the second end of the lid and is capable of detecting whether the first end of the lid is in the closed position;
- a movable part that is provided on one of the lid and the body and moves when pressed by the sheet jammed in a section between the printing mechanism and the sheet discharge port;
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- a second sensor that is provided on another one of the lid and the body at a position closer to the second end of the lid than to the first end of the lid and is capable of detecting that the second end of the lid is not in the closed position and the movable part is moved.
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