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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:
Sep. 16, 1986
Filed:
May. 29, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tsuneo Yasui, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
400120 ; 400208 ; 346 / ;
Abstract
A thermal printer is provided with a detecting member adapted to detect the presence of a thermal ribbon cassette on the printer. When the thermal ribbon cassette is mounted on the printer, the thermal print head is held at a release position until a cycle of ribbon feeding action has been completed. The thermal head is moved from the release position to a print position to print data on the next line, after the used part of the thermal ribbon has been taken up and an unused part of the thermal ribbon is positioned opposite a sheet of ordinary paper.