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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 1985
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Tokyo Electric Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346 / ; 400120 ; 400219 ;
Abstract
A thermal printer is provided, wherein a carrier having a thermal head mounted thereon is driven in both directions and a printing ribbon is fed in an amount necessary to print data in each printing operation. In this thermal printer, a ribbon drive means for driving the ribbon is provided separately from the carrier 20, thereby feeding the ribbon by the distance to be determined in accordance with the front end position of the unused portion of the ribbon and the length of the ribbon necessary to print the print data.