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US 9,139,029 B2Granted
Ink ribbon cassette and printing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasaya Hashimoto
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Abstract
An ink ribbon cassette and printing apparatus capable of stably conveying an ink ribbon includes a supply shaft around which an ink ribbon is wound, a rewinding shaft around which the ink ribbon from the supply shaft is to be rewound, a guide shaft configured to abut the ink ribbon on a conveying path of the ink ribbon from the supply shaft to the rewinding shaft, and a regulation portion configured to abut the guide shaft according to a force applied to the guide shaft by the ink ribbon, thereby deforming the guide shaft to protrude toward the ink ribbon.
Claims26
An ink ribbon cassette comprising:
- a supply shaft around which an ink ribbon is wound;
- a rewinding shaft around which the ink ribbon from the supply shaft is to be rewound;
- a guide shaft configured to abut the ink ribbon on a conveying path of the ink ribbon from the supply shaft to the rewinding shaft;
- and
- a regulation portion configured to abut the guide shaft according to a force applied to the guide shaft by the ink ribbon, thereby deforming the guide shaft to protrude toward the ink ribbon side.
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A printing apparatus comprising:
- a supply shaft around which an ink ribbon is wound;
- a rewinding shaft around which the ink ribbon from the supply shaft is to be rewound;
- a guide shaft configured to abut the ink ribbon on a conveying path of the ink ribbon from the supply shaft to the rewinding shaft;
- and
- a regulation portion configured to abut the guide shaft according to a force applied to the guide shaft by the ink ribbon, thereby deforming the guide shaft to protrude toward the ink ribbon side.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.