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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2021
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Taishi Sasaki, Matsumoto, JP;
Kenichi Nakajima, Shimosuwa-machi, JP;
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A ribbon reeling mechanism includes: a gear supporting member that supports a clutch gear rotatably and is configured to move between a mesh position at which the clutch gear supported by the gear supporting member is in mesh with a first reeling-side gear and a non-mesh position at which the clutch gear supported by the gear supporting member is not in mesh with the first reeling-side gear; a clutch impeding spring that causes a clutch impeding force of impeding movement from the mesh position to the non-mesh position to act on the gear supporting member when a feed motor starts rotating in the second rotation direction; a drive member engaged with the gear supporting member; and a clutch drive mechanism that causes the gear supporting member to move to the non-mesh position against the clutch impeding force when the feed motor rotates in the second rotation direction.