Printer
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTAKESHI IWASAKI, HIROYUKI INOUE
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Abstract
A printer for effecting recording on a recording medium by recording means includes conveying means for conveying the recording medium, an infrared ray communication unit containing in a case member an infrared ray communication element for effecting data communication with an external data processing apparatus with an infrared ray as a communication medium, and supporting means for rotatably supporting the infrared ray communication unit on the printer so as to be protrudable from the surface of the outer case of the printer.
Claims23
A printer for effecting recording on a recording medium by recording means including:
- conveying means for conveying said recording medium;
- an infrared ray communication unit containing in a case member an infrared ray communication element for effecting data communication with an external data processing apparatus with an infrared ray as a communication medium;
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- supporting means for rotatably supporting said infrared ray communication unit on said printer so as to be protrudable from the surface of the outer case of said printer.
A printer for effecting recording on a recording medium by recording means including:
- conveying means for conveying said recording medium;
- an infrared ray communication unit having an infrared ray communication element portion for effecting data communication with an external data processing apparatus with an infrared ray as a communication medium, and an infrared ray transmitting window portion for transmitting therethrough an infrared ray emitted or received by said infrared ray communication element portion;
- and
- supporting means for making said infrared ray transmitting window portion protrudable from the surface of the outer case of said printer and yet rotatably supporting said infrared ray transmitting window portion and said infrared ray communication element portion on said printer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.