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US 2010/0245515 A1Published application
Printer
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHaruo Uchida, Yasuhiko Ikeda, Hiroyuki Saito, Kenji Shigeno, Koichiro Kawaguchi, Takaaki Ishida
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Abstract
A printer has a pair of a right side member (8) and a left side member (9) placed on opposite side portions of a base (53), rollers including a transport roller (3), a carriage chassis (12), a platen (2) and a feed unit. The right side member and the left side member are formed by molding a resin material. The roller, the carriage chassis, the platen and the feed unit are positioned and held with the pair of the right side member and the left side member.
Claims20
A printer comprising:
- a base placed at the bottom of an apparatus main body;
- a pair of side members disposed on opposite sides of the base with respect to a first direction;
- at least one roller for transporting a sheet;
- a carriage chassis on which a carriage which moves reciprocally in the first direction while having a printing head mounted thereon is held;
- a feed unit which separates and transports sheets one after another in a second direction intersecting the first direction,
- a platen which supports the sheet in a printing section in which recording is performed with the printing head;
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- wherein the pair of side members are formed by molding a resin material, and
- the roller, the carriage chassis, the platen and the feed unit are positioned and held with the pair of side members.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.