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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2019
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Nishitokyo-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Citizen Systems Japan Co., Ltd., Nishitokyo-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Masao Yoshizawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Yamazaki, Tokyo, JP;
CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
CITIZEN SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a printer that drives by a ribbon motor (), a winding axle that holds an ink ribbon positioned between a thermal head that performs a photographic printing operation with respect to a photographic medium conveyed along a sub-scanning direction and a platen that opposes the photographic print head with the photographic medium between the photographic print head and the platen, a flywheel () is coupled to a shaft of the ribbon motor (), and a rotational force of the ribbon motor () is transmitted to the winding axle, via a worm gear () and a helical gear ().