Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

Mitsuo Tsushima

Hiroshi Abe

Hitoshi Funaki

Eihin Setsu

Minoru Takeuchi

Toshiaki Asakura

Takanobu Matsuura

Hideki Yorozu

Yuji Inada

Yuusai Ishitobi

Mitsuo Hirano

Movable end portions of cables and are fixed to a movable lead block, and fixed end portions of the cables are fixed to a fixed lead block. The movable lead block is mounted so as to be inserted into a cylindrical portion of a rotary body in a direction along a rotation center line, and the fixed lead block is mounted so as to be inserted into a lead block attachment portion of a lower housing in the direction along the rotation center line. The movable end portions and the fixed end portions of the cables are positioned at the same heights as those of the cables in a wiring space.

Rotary connector having a cable in a wiring space between a rotary body and a housing

A ribbon cassetteincludes a cassette casehaving a first accommodating portiona second accommodating portionand a connecting portionconnecting the first and second accommodating portionsanda feeding coreand a take-up corerotatably accommodated respectively in the first and second accommodating portionsandand an ink ribbon R having a large width which can be fed from the feeding coreand taken up by the take-up corethrough a connecting memberwherein there is provided in the first accommodating portionin the vicinity of the connecting membera shaftextending along the direction of the width of the ink ribbon R, wherein there is provided in the connecting memberan edge portiona of a wall portionopposed to the shaftand wherein the ink ribbon R fed out from the feeding coreis bent at the shaftand then bent in the opposite direction by the edge portiona before it is taken up by the take-up corewhereby it is possible to provide an ink ribbon cassette in which it is possible to achieve an overall reduction in size and in which the ink ribbon can be fed in a stable manner.

Ink ribbon cassette for thermal transfer printer

A ribbon cassette includes a cassette case having a first accommodating portion a second accommodating portion and a connecting portion connecting the first and second accommodating portions and a feeding core and a take-up core rotatably accommodated respectively in the first and second accommodating portions and and an ink ribbon R having a large width which can be fed from the feeding core and taken up by the take-up core through a connecting member wherein there is provided in the first accommodating portion in the vicinity of the connecting member a shaft extending along the direction of the width of the ink ribbon R, wherein there is provided in the connecting member an edge portion of a wall portion opposed to the shaft and wherein the ink ribbon R fed out from the feeding core is bent at the shaft and then bent in the opposite direction by the edge portion before it is taken up by the take-up core whereby it is possible to provide an ink ribbon cassette in which it is possible to achieve an overall reduction in size and in which the ink ribbon can be fed in a stable manner.

A printer including, from an upstream side to a downstream side in a sheet feeding direction, a sheet feed mechanism, a carriage, a curl straightening device, and a sheet discharge mechanism. A curl straightening head of the curl straightening device is resilient. The carriage and the curl straightening device are driven by a same drive source. The printer is a cheap printer which can allow reliable straightening of curled recorded sheet, even when sheets of different thicknesses are used, and which can reliably discharge the sheet out the printer.

Printer with sheet curl straightening device

An image scanner is provided which is capable of preventing decrease in image contrast and improving the reading accuracy and quality of color images to a greater extent. An image scanner includes a unit case having an opening formed on one end surface thereof; light-source lamps and light-source lenses which are disposed in the inner portion of the opening of the unit case in such a manner as to face the opening; holding plates which are disposed in the inner portion of the opening of the unit case and which have formed therein slits for extending the terminals of the light-source lamps to the inside of the unit case; and CCD sensors, disposed at the end portion of the inside of the unit case on the side opposite to the opening, for reading an image of the original document by receiving, via a lens unit, light which is radiated onto a given original document placed near the opening from the light-source lamps via the light-source lenses and reflected from this original document.

Image scanner

A thermal transfer printer wherein a desired ribbon cassette is identified and selected from among plural ribbon cassettes held by a cassette holding portion and is loaded automatically onto a cassette carrier disposed on a carriage. The carriage is provided with a photosensor for detecting an identification mark provided on each ribbon cassette and a control section which judges whether there is any ribbon cassette held by the holding portion and of which type the ribbon cassette is, in accordance with a signal provided from the photosensor as the carriage moves. The carriage is further provided with a mechanism for making control so as to prevent loosening of ink ribbon at the time of ribbon cassette replacement.

Thermal transfer printer

The present invention has its object to achieve a reduction in the size and cost of a paper feeding cassette. A cassette body (2) which can contain a plurality of papers is provided with a pair of front-edge guide sections (3) and (3) for positioning the front-edges of the papers, a pair of traverse guide sections (4) and (4) for positioning the side-edges of the papers, a rear-edge guide section (5) for positioning the rear-edges of the papers, a pair of separating sections (6) and (6) for separating one at a time the papers contained in the cassette body (2), and a pair of push-up members (7) and (7) for pushing upward both side sections of the front-edges of the papers toward the lower surfaces of a pair of separating sections (6) and (6). Both side sections of the front-edges of the papers are pushed upward toward the lower surfaces of the separating sections (6) and (6) by the elasticity of the push-up members (7) and ( 7).

Paper feeding cassette

Ink ribbon cassette

A thermal printer having a main shaft supporting a carriage mounted with printing mechanisms including a printing head and an ink ribbon peeling member for peeling an ink ribbon off the recording sheet as the carriage travels, and fixedly provided with sheet feeding rollers for feeding a recording sheet. The carriage is moved along the main shaft for printing operation to print information on the recording sheet on a line. Before beginning a new line, the carriage is returned to the starting position while the main shaft is rotated to feed the recording sheet. Thus, the main shaft functions as both a guide shaft for guiding the carriage and a sheet feeding shaft for feeding the recording sheet, and thereby the construction of the thermal printer is simplified and the number of the components is reduced.

Thermal printer carriage-medium transport

A printer wherein when in printing, a platen and a head are opposedly disposed by a carriage, said printer comprising a bottom plate on which said platen or said head is disposed, and a body hinged to said bottom plate and designed to include said carriage, said body and said bottom plate being relatively rotated.

Thermal printer

A printer characterized in that a paper feed path for guiding a record paper to a printing position formed between a platen and a head is disposed on the same plane on the whole including the printing position and portions before and behind the printing position.

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Miyagi-ken, Japan

Mitsuo Tsushima