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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1996
Naohisa Kinoshita, Nagoya, JP;
Motoaki Yamanashi, Nagoya, JP;
Masatoshi Kokubo, Ama-gun, JP;
Yoshiki Katayama, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabsushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A manual printing device for printing on a surface of a recording medium when manually scanned in a scanning direction over the recording medium, the manual printing device including: an elongated body to be manually grasped by a user and having an upper tip and a lower tip opposite the upper tip, the lower tip confronting the recording medium when the body is oriented with respect to the recording medium to print on the recording medium; an ink jet print head disposed at the lower tip and capable of printing at a maximum printing width on the surface of the printing medium; a frame disposed at the lower tip and, with respect to the scanning direction, in front of the ink jet print head; a roller rotatably supported on the frame to rotate across the surface of the recording medium when the manual printing device is scanned in the scanning direction over the recording medium; and a protrusion extending from the frame and, when the body is oriented to print on the recording medium, into contact with the recording medium so as to maintain a predetermined distance between the ink jet print head and the recording medium.