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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2022
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyotaka Nihashi, Mishima Shizuoka, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printer includes a housing storing a rolled sheet and having an opening, a head, a cover covering the opening, a first flapper attached to the cover via a first shaft at a first end of the flapper, pivoting around the shaft, and biased to press the sheet with a second end thereof, the first end being closer to a front side of the cover than the second end, a second flapper attached to the cover via a second shaft at a first end of the second flapper and pivoting around the second shaft, a second end of the second flapper being closer to the front side than the first end and slidably connected to a center portion of the first flapper, and a sensor detecting that a remaining amount of the sheet has decreased to a predetermined amount, based on an angle by which the second flapper has pivoted.