Fujitsu Corporation

Shinya Okuda

Keiji Tanaka

Norio Matsumoto

Kiyoshi Terai

Mituyoshi Seino

Kazuo Yakuwa

Takashi Ishikawa

Osamu Ohkuma

A printer including a casing having a front face, a printing unit, and a control circuit. The printing unit includes a printing medium attaching portion and a printing head portion pivotably attached to the printing medium attaching portion. The printing unit is supported in the casing by a moving mechanism so that the printing unit can be freely drawn out forward from the front face of the casing. The moving mechanism also automatically positions the printing head in an open position with respect to the printing medium attaching portion when the printing unit is drawn out from the casing.

Printer with pivotable print head attached to medium carrier moveable

An optical switching means including an optical fiber moving means which is moved by an electromagnetic force, a spring body which has a guide hole through which an optical fiber passes and at least one magnetic body. The magnetic body is fixed on one of its ends and one end is arranged so as to be almost parallel with the moving optical fiber. The moving optical fiber is connected with a fixed optical fiber by moving the magnetic body with an electromagnetic force, thereby effecting optical switching with low attenuation and high accuracy.

Optical switching device

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Kawasaki, Japan

Shinya Okuda