Print head and print apparatus
AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorYasumasa Sagawa
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Abstract
Lift of the rotation fulcrum of the armature is prevented. In the print head in which a print wire is furnished at an end portion, and that has an armature that is furnished rotatably, a yoke touches a rotation fulcrum of the armature; an elasticity member of a cantilever structure presses the rotation fulcrum of the armature to the yoke by sandwiching the armature between the yoke and the elasticity member; a housing fixes an end portion of the elasticity member and covers the elasticity member through forming a gap between the elasticity member and the housing; and a pressing member is arranged between the housing and the elasticity member and touches the housing and the elasticity member.
Claims17
A print head in which a print wire is furnished at an end portion, and that has an armature that is furnished rotatably, comprising:
- a yoke that touches a rotation fulcrum of the armature;
- an elasticity member of a cantilever structure that presses the rotation fulcrum of the armature to the yoke by sandwiching the armature between the yoke and the elasticity member;
- a housing that fixes an end portion of the elasticity member and that covers the elasticity member through forming a gap between the elasticity member and the housing;
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- a pressing member that is arranged between the housing and the elasticity member, the armature comprised of a plurality of armatures and the pressing member including a center part and periphery tip parts, the periphery tip parts corresponding to the plurality of armatures, respectively, the periphery tip parts having a thickness one of equal to and larger than a distance between the housing and the elasticity member such that the periphery tip parts touch the housing and the elasticity member in a mounted configuration, the periphery tip parts configured to press the elasticity member onto the plurality of armatures, respectively.
A print apparatus that has a print head in which a print wire is furnished at an end portion, and which has an armature that is furnished rotatably, wherein the print head, comprising:
- a yoke that touches a rotation fulcrum of the armature;
- an elasticity member of a cantilever structure having an end portion and a bending portion that presses the rotation fulcrum of the armature to the yoke by sandwiching the armature between the yoke and the elasticity member, the elasticity member having a fixed end proximate the end portion and a free end proximate the bending portion, the fixed end and the free end defining an elasticity member length;
- a housing that fixes the fixed end of the elasticity member and that covers the elasticity member through forming a gap between the elasticity member and the housing, the gap having a gap length;
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- a pressing member that is arranged between the housing and the elasticity member, the pressing member including a center part and periphery tip parts, the periphery tip parts positioned in the gap and touching the housing and bending portion of the elasticity member, the periphery tip parts configured to press the elasticity member onto the armature, the periphery tip parts having a pressing member length that is substantially the same as the elasticity member length and the gap length.
A print head in which a print wire is furnished at an end portion, and that has an armature that is furnished rotatably, comprising:
- a yoke that touches a rotation fulcrum of the armature;
- an elasticity member of a cantilever structure that presses the rotation fulcrum of the armature to the yoke by sandwiching the armature between the yoke and the elasticity member, the elasticity member having a fixed end, a free end, an end portion proximate the fixed end and a bending portion proximate the free end;
- a housing that fixes the fixed end and the end portion of the elasticity member and that covers the elasticity member through forming a gap between the elasticity member and the housing;
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- a pressing member that is arranged between the housing and the elasticity member and that touches the housing and the elasticity member, the pressing member including a center part and periphery tip parts that extend in petal shapes from the center part, the periphery tip parts touching the bending portion of the elasticity member, the periphery tip parts having a thickness one of equal to and larger than a height of the gap and being mounted in the gap in a mounted configuration such that the periphery tip parts touch an upper surface of the bending portion of the elasticity member and a lower surface of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.