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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007
Filed:
May. 25, 2005
Hiroyuki Murayama, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Takahashi, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Koichi Sugiyama, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Hiroyuki Murayama, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Takahashi, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Koichi Sugiyama, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a thermal printer capable of easily improving a recording quality, a plurality of recording units, arranged along a carrying path of a recording medium, are respectively provided with a recording head, a platen which opposes the recording head with the carrying path interposed therebetween and is brought into contact with and separated from the recording head, a carrying unit including a carrying roller arranged on the downstream side of the recording head, and a friction unit including a friction roller arranged on the downstream side of the carrying unit in order to prevent the disturbance generated on the downstream side from propagating upstream via the recording medium, between the respective recording units.