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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2007
Applicants:
Yoshinobu Shiraiwa, Machida, JP;
Minoru Tanabe, Kawasaki, JP;
Kenji Ito, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 17/32 (2006.01); B65H 1/04 (2006.01); B41J 13/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 17/32 (2013.01); B41J 13/03 (2013.01); B65H 1/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
An integrated ink-and-paper cassette () mountable to a thermal transfer printer () includes an ink-sheet supply unit housing () between an opening () for ejecting the recording sheet () and an ink-sheet take-up unit housing (). Also, an upper case () mainly defining a recording sheet housing () is welded to a lower case () defining ink-sheet housings when assembled with the upper case (), in the vicinity of a conveyance path of the ink sheet () at which a load is likely applied.