Cutting device and tape printing apparatus equipped therewith
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorShinsaku Kosuge
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Abstract
A cutting device which carries out cutting operations in a width direction of a tape-like member, includes: a cutter unit having a cutter blade; and a cutter operation mechanism having a power transmission mechanism which transmits power for causing the cutter unit to operate and carry out a circulatory movement including the cutting operations, a full cutting and a half cutting, with one mechanism, wherein the power transmission mechanism has a rotating circular plate which rotates by means of power input from a drive portion, and the rotating circular plate has on each surface an engagement portion which branches and transmits power caused by the rotation.
Claims8
A cutting device which carries out cutting operations in a width direction of a tape-like member, comprising:
- a cutter unit having a cutter blade;
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- a cutter operation mechanism having a power transmission mechanism which transmits power for causing the cutter unit to operate and carry out a circulatory movement including a full cutting operation and a half cutting operation, with one mechanism, wherein
- the power transmission mechanism has a rotating circular plate which rotates by means of power input from a drive portion,
- the rotating circular plate has on each surface an engagement portion which branches and transmits power caused by the rotation, and
- the power transmission mechanism, by causing the rotating circular plate to rotate by switching the rotation direction thereof between a forward direction and a backward direction, carries out the full cutting operation and the half cutting operation and, by the rotating circular plate turning in a complete revolution, causes the cutter unit to carry out the circulatory movement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.