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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2011
Applicants:
Yoshirou Sugimoto, Tomi, JP;
Akihiro Onodera, Hachioji, JP;
Inventors:
Yoshirou Sugimoto, Tomi, JP;
Akihiro Onodera, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Tomi, Nagano, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 29/387 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 19/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/008 (2013.01); B41J 19/205 (2013.01);
Abstract
A printer that restarts printing from a desired print position after an emergency stop is provided. A printer according to the present disclosure includes a head printing on a work, a driving motor moving at least one of the head and the work in order to change a print position on the work, a rotary encoder and an encoder counter determining a position of the head relative to the work, a control device supplying electric power to the encoder after excitation of the driving motor is turned off during printing and enabling the encoder counter to continue counting.