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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2010
Hiroyuki Tsugaru, Saitama, JP;
Tetsuya Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Katsutoshi Mukaijima, Tokyo, JP;
Gen Matsushima, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Tsugaru, Saitama, JP;
Tetsuya Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Katsutoshi Mukaijima, Tokyo, JP;
Gen Matsushima, Tokyo, JP;
Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Citizen Systems Japan Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printer includes a fixed blade attached to a cover unit; a movable blade that faces a fixed blade, freely reciprocates relative to the fixed blade when the cover unit is closed and cuts the recording medium together with the fixed blade by overlapping the fixed blade during reciprocation; a movable blade driving motor that causes the movable blade to reciprocate; and a movable blade unit that includes the movable blade, the movable blade driving motor, and an accommodating unit accommodating the movable blade and provided at a printer main body. The printer further includes a mechanism that, when the movable blade protrudes from the accommodating unit and is stopped, widens a space over which the fixed blade and the protruding movable blade face each other before the movable blade driving motor accommodates the protruding movable blade in the accommodating unit, as initiated by operation of a cover opening lever.