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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2007
Kimitaka Hirai, Chiba, JP;
Kimitaka Hirai, Chiba, JP;
Seiko Instruments Inc., , JP;
Abstract
There is provided a thermal printer () including: a main body frame (); a thermal head () mounted to the main body frame (); a platen roller () disposed to be opposed to a printing surface () of the thermal head (), for sandwiching a thermal paper () with the thermal head () to feed the thermal paper (); a lock arm () swingably mounted to the main body frame (), for locking the platen roller () with the main body frame () by pressing a shaft bearing () which rotatably supports the platen roller () against the thermal head (); a swing arm () that supports the shaft bearing () of the platen roller (), and swings between a lock position by the lock arm () and a release position apart from the lock arm (); and a lever () movably provided to the swing arm (), for releasing a locked state of the platen roller () by the lock arm () by an external force applied to a force point (), in which a direction in which the force point () of the lever () moves when the locked state by the lock arm () is released is same as a swinging direction of the swing arm ().