Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Tetsuro Muramatsu

Masashi Tanizaki

Yuya Nakamura

Koshiro Shimoda

A printer includes: a print head; a support frame elongated in a first direction and supporting the print head; a discharge slot for discharging a medium after printing is performed on the medium; and a cover member covering the print head and the support frame. The discharge slot and the cover member are both elongated in the first direction. The cover member includes a surrounding part and a first engagement portion. The surrounding part surrounds an entirety of the discharge slot and has a peripheral portion extending in the first direction and constituting a part of the discharge slot. The first engagement portion is in engagement with a frame engagement portion of the support frame.

Printer including cover member constituting part of discharge slot and engaged with frame supporting print head

There is provided a printing device to which an external component is attachable. The printing device includes: a housing; a print head provided inside the housing; a guide portion configured to guide a printing medium to the print head in a conveying direction; and a first engagement portion engageable with a first attaching portion of the external component. The housing includes a first frame, a second frame opposite the first frame in a widthwise direction crossing the conveying direction, and a connecting portion extending in the widthwise direction to connect the first frame to the second frame. The print head is supported by at least one of the first frame and the second frame. The guide portion is fixed to the connecting portion. The first engagement portion is formed in one of the guide portion and the connecting portion.

Printing device having engagement portion engageable with external component for stable attachment thereof to the printing device

A printer includes: a casing; a grooved part recessed from an outer surface of the casing; a switch unit provided in the grooved part; a controller inside the casing; an FPC connecting the switch unit to the controller; and a hole part formed at a prescribed end portion of a bottom surface of the grooved part. A bottom surface of the switch unit is fixed to the groove bottom surface through the FPC. The hole part is aligned with a center of the groove bottom surface in a prescribed direction. The hole part defines a first inner end and a second inner end opposing each other in the prescribed direction, the first inner end being farther away from the center of the groove bottom surface than the second inner end is in the prescribed direction. The first inner end is positioned outside of the grooved part in the prescribed direction.

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Nagoya, Japan

Tetsuro Muramatsu