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US 8,910,550 B2Granted
Printer
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakashi Furuta
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakashi Furuta
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A printer according to the present invention includes a recording unit that makes recording on recording paper, a cutter unit that has a movable cutter edge to cut the recording paper, and a containing portion that receives recorded matter, which is the recorded paper cut by the cutter unit. Further, the printer includes a cut piece collecting portion that collects cut pieces, which are recording paper cut by the cutter unit, and a cut piece collecting portion cover that opens/closes in conjunction with a cutting operation of the cutter unit. The recording paper cut by the cutter unit is collected by a cut piece collecting portion if the cut piece collecting portion cover is in an open state and is made movable to the containing portion if the cut piece collecting portion cover is in a closed state. Further, the cut piece collecting portion cover performs one opening/closing operation for a predetermined number of cutting operations.
A printer, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Applications of cutting devices: cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in…:…
With product handling means: initiated by means directly responsive to tool movement
Means to move product out of contact with tool: with means to effect subsequent conveying or guiding
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a printer that makes a record on recording paper, and in particular, relates to a printer having a function to cut recording paper.
2. Description of the Related Art
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, illustrate exemplary embodiments, features, and aspects of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a cross section of an exemplary embodiment of a printer according to the present invention.
FIGS. 2A and 2B are enlarged schematic diagrams of a periphery of a cutter unit when a movable cutter edge is in a standby state.
Various exemplary embodiments, features, and aspects of the invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described below based on appended drawings. The same reference numerals are attached to structural elements having the same function in drawings and a description thereof may be not described.
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a cross section of an exemplary embodiment of a printer according to the present invention. The driving and operation of each unit of a printer in the present exemplary embodiment are controlled by a central processing unit (CPU) (not illustrated) and the CPU reads a program from a memory (not illustrated) and controls the driving and operation of each unit or performs arithmetic processing based on the read program.