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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2006
Minoru Yamamoto, Nagoya, JP;
Minoru Yamamoto, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
It is intended to provide a tape printer which enables to forcibly separate a platen roller and a print head along with an opening operation of a cover element in case the platen roller and the print head have adhered to each other because of a long-period storage of the tape printer with the platen roller and the print head being in contact. Accordingly, a first gear formed in the platen roller and a rack member in which gear teeth engageable with the first gear are provided, so that a contact between the platen roller and a thermal head can be forcibly released by an engagement with a first gear and the gear teeth when the cover element is opened, and a roller holder is returned to a withdrawing position with a roller holder return spring for pressing the roller holder toward the withdrawing position.