Image generating apparatus
AssigneeFunai Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsKunio Sawai, Takahiro Naito
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Abstract
An image generating apparatus includes a print portion printing a paper, a platen roller arranged so as to be opposed to the print portion, a heat radiating member mounted on the print portion, radiating heat generated in the print portion, integrally provided with a plate-like support shaft as an axis of rotation and rotatable in a direction for coming into pressure contact with or separating from the platen roller, a regulating member regulating movement of the print portion in a printing direction of the paper, a chassis having a hole-shaped bearing receiving the plate-like support shaft, and a side plate mounted on the chassis.
Claims15
An image generating apparatus comprising:
- a print portion printing a paper;
- a platen roller arranged so as to be opposed to said print portion;
- a heat radiating member mounted on said print portion, radiating heat generated in said print portion, integrally provided with a plate-like support shaft as an axis of rotation and rotatable in a direction for coming into pressure contact with or separating from said platen roller;
- a regulating member regulating movement of said print portion in a printing direction of said paper;
- a chassis having a hole-shaped bearing receiving said plate-like support shaft;
- and
- a side plate mounted on said chassis;
- wherein:
- said side plate integrally includes a contact portion capable of limiting movement of said support shaft of said heat radiating member in an axial direction, and
- said contact portion is so formed as to be elastically deformable in a direction intersecting with the axial direction of said support shaft up to a position where said contact portion does not come into contact with said plate-like support shaft inserted into said hole-shaped bearing.
An image generating apparatus comprising:
- a print portion printing a paper;
- a platen roller arranged so as to be opposed to said print portion;
- a heat radiating member mounted on said print portion and radiating heat generated in said print portion;
- a regulating member regulating movement of said print portion in a printing direction of said paper;
- a chassis;
- a side plate mounted on said chassis;
- and
- a feed roller transporting said paper, wherein
- said heat radiating member is formed integrally with a plate-like support shaft as an axis of rotation and rotates in a direction for coming into pressure contact with or separating from said platen roller,
- said chassis has a sectorial hole-shaped bearing receiving said plate-like support shaft,
- said side plate integrally includes a contact portion capable of limiting movement of said support shaft of said heat radiating member in an axial direction,
- said contact portion is elastically deformed in a direction intersecting with the axial direction of said support shaft up to a position where said contact portion does not come into contact with said plate-like support shaft inserted into said hole-shaped bearing,
- said plate-like support shaft includes first and second support shafts integrally provided on said heat radiating member so as to protrude outward from first and second end surface portions of said heat radiating member respectively,
- the length from an end of said second support shaft provided on said second end surface portion of said heat radiating member to said first end surface portion of said heat radiating member is smaller than the length from a first side surface of said chassis to a second side surface of said chassis, and
- said regulating member is so formed as to function as a bearing of said feed roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.