Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Masaaki Matsui

Toshio Tanaka

Kazumine Koshi

Noriyuki Saito

Tohru Arakawa

Shigehiro Yoshiuchi

Masaru Shimizu

Toru Arakawa

Katsumi Kouzu

Keita Sakai

Koji Oike

Satoshi Yamaura

Kenji Nakasono

Akira Katsura

Kazuto Kume

A roller device includes a motor and a speed reducer inside a cylindrical roller or arranged coaxially, and an electronic apparatus includes a printer using the roller device. This roller device comprises a motor ( ) disposed on a cylindrical roller ( ), a sun gear ( ), planet gears ( ), a first inner tooth gear ( ) provided inside of the cylindrical roller ( ), and a second inner tooth gear ( ) provided inside of a bearing element ( ). The rotation of the bearing element ( ) is suppressed by a predetermined force. Thus the rotation of the motor ( ) is decelerated, and the cylindrical roller is rotated at a reduced speed. By rotating the bearing element with a force greater than a predetermined force, the cylindrical roller can be rotated manually.

Roller device and electronics using the roller device

A printing apparatus has a small size that facilitates replacement of rolled paper, removal of jammed paper, etc., and alleviates the likelihood of a paper jam with a considerably simple structure. The printing apparatus comprises a rolled-paper holder (,), which is provided with a first holder (,) for use in carrying out printing on rolled paper (,), and a second holder (,) for use in setting the rolled paper (,). The rolled paper (,) is moved from the second holder (,) to the first holder (,) as a main body of the apparatus is shifted from a paper setting position to a printing work position, thereby facilitating the setting of the rolled paper (,) and removal of jammed paper, since the rolled paper (,) can be temporarily supported by the second holder (,) in order to provide sufficient work space when replacing the rolled paper (,) or removing jammed paper.

Printing apparatus

The present invention aims at providing a printing apparatus of a small size that facilitates replacement of a rolled paper, removal of a jammed paper, etc. and alleviates likeliness of a paper jam with a considerably simple structure. The printing apparatus comprises a rolled-paper holder (,), which is provided with a first holder (,) for use in carrying out printing on a rolled paper (,), and a second holder (,) for use in setting the rolled paper (,), wherein the rolled paper (,) is moved from the second holder (,) to the first holder (,) as a main body of the apparatus is shifted from a paper setting position to a printing work position, thereby facilitating the setting of the rolled paper (,) and removal of a jammed paper, since the rolled paper (,) can be temporarily supported by the second holder (,) in order to provide a sufficient work space when replacing the rolled paper (,) or removing a jammed paper.

Printer

A non-contact thermometer uses a pyroelectric infrared sensor which makes it possible to measure temperatures of an object having a large area required to be measured, and at a plurality of points. The thermometer sets up a reference position without using a position detecting switch and also improves the accuracy of measuring the temperature due to its increased amount of incident infrared rays transmitted as a result of reducing the motor speed and extending the time of measurement at the point where infrared rays of the object to be measured is to be detected. The thermometer's stepping motor is fed with its operation step input and brought to a stop at the reference exciting phase of the motor which has been set up in advance. The whole measurement operation thereafter is arranged to proceed, starting from the above exciting phase serving as the reference, at which point the motor was brought to a stop.

Non-contact thermometer

A printing apparatus including a paper guide, provided on a frame for guiding recording paper; a platen pivotally supported by the frame; a paper feeding roller rotatably provided in the frame; and a printing driving section reciprocally moving with respect to the recording paper on the platen for performing printing, and a cam rack in engagement with the paper feeding roller for intermittently rotating the paper feeding roller. The cam rack has a projection to be engaged with the paper feeding roller for stopping the rotation of the paper feeding roller.

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Masaaki Matsui