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US 6,309,120 B1Granted
Printer having stacker
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorYoshihiro Kasahara
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Abstract
A printer includes a box-like main body cover, an upper cover, a stacker, and stacker attaching means. The main body cover has an opening and stores a printing unit main body. The upper cover is attached to be able to open/close the opening of the main body cover and pivots about a rear end side of the main body cover as an axis. The stacker is attached to a rear end portion of the upper cover to temporarily place a paper sheet thereon. The stacker attaching means supports the stacker to be pivotal in a direction opposite to a pivoting direction of the upper cover.
Claims1
A printer comprising:
- a box-like main body cover having an opening to store a printing unit main body;
- an upper cover attached to be able to open/close said opening of said ma in body cover and pivotal about a rear end side of said main body cover as an axis;
- a stacker attached to a rear end portion of said upper cover to temporarily place a paper sheet thereon;
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- stacker attaching means for supporting said stacker to be pivotal in a direction opposite to a pivoting direction of said upper cover;
- wherein said stacker comprises
- a stacker main body portion provided with said stacker attaching means, and
- a paper sheet receiving portion connected to said stacker main body portion to be abutted by the paper sheet, and
- said paper sheet receiving portion displaces in the pivoting direction of said upper cover when being abutted by said pivoted upper cover,
- wherein said stacker main body portion is formed of an elastic plate member, and
- said paper sheet receiving portion is formed of a tongue-like member formed by notching a central portion of said plate member to project in a counter-pivoting direction of said upper cover.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.