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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2024
Applicant:
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kiyotaka Nihashi, Mishima Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 15/16 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 15/02 (2006.01); B41J 15/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 15/165 (2013.01); B41J 3/4075 (2013.01); B41J 15/02 (2013.01); B41J 15/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to an embodiment, a printer includes a damper that moves towards a continuous sheet by a predetermined distance and applies a tensile force to the continuous sheet on a conveying path on which the continuous sheet is conveyed by the feed roller. The printer further includes a limiter that switches a state of the damper between an unlimited state in which a movement distance for the damper is not limited and a limited state in which the movement distance for the damper is limited so that no tensile force is applied to the continuous sheet.