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AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorsAkihiro Moriyama, Masakazu Yamagata, Yoshifumi Igari
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A ribbon protector is attached to a ribbon cartridge to prevent an ink ribbon from being soiled. The ribbon protector includes mounting portions, a protecting portion, and a paper guide. The ribbon protector is mounted to the ribbon cartridge by means of the mounting portions. The protecting section opposes an ink ribbon such that the ink ribbon is between the protecting section and the ribbon cartridge when the mounting portions have been mounted to the ribbon cartridge. The paper guide projects from the protecting section to incline toward the ribbon cartridge. The mounting portion may have a first base portion continuous to the protector and the paper guide has a second base portion continuous to the protecting section. The first base portion is thicker than other portions of the first projecting portion and the second base portion is thicker than other portions of the mounting portion.
A ribbon protector for attachment to a ribbon cartridge, the ribbon cartridge including a front support, said ribbon protector comprising:
A ribbon cartridge having a ribbon protector attached thereto, wherein the ribbon protector comprising:
A printer incorporating a ribbon cartridge having a ribbon protector mounted thereto so that a printhead performs printing on print paper through an ink ribbon supplied from the ribbon cartridge, the print paper being inserted from outside, the ribbon protector comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.