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Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2007

Filed:

Apr. 21, 2004
Applicants:

Sumio Watanabe, Shinagawa, JP;

Fumio Sakurai, Shinagawa, JP;

Yukihiro Mori, Shinagawa, JP;

Kunihiko Funada, Shinagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Sumio Watanabe, Shinagawa, JP;

Fumio Sakurai, Shinagawa, JP;

Yukihiro Mori, Shinagawa, JP;

Kunihiko Funada, Shinagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A printer apparatus for printing data on paper traveling through the printer apparatus in a paper conveying direction. The printer apparatus includes a paper conveying portion including a driving roller and a driven roller, the driving roller and driven roller being moveable with respect to one another between an engaged position at which the driving roller and the driven roller are pressed together and a disengaged position at which the driving roller and the driven roller are separated; wherein the paper conveying portion is situated downstream, with respect to the paper conveying direction, from the location at which the data is printed on the paper; and wherein the driving roller and the driven roller are operative to pressingly sandwich the paper therebetween when the driving roller and the driven roller are in the engaged position.


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