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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2015
Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Citizen Systems Japan Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Akira Takahashi, Nagano, JP;
Yuichi Taguchi, Nagano, JP;
CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
CITIZEN SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a printer in which the rotating shaft of a ribbon roller can be connected to its driving unit with high accuracy by using a mechanism simple in structure, while preventing breakage that may occur when connecting the rotating shaft to the driving unit. The printer () includes a cabinet (), a drawer unit () which can be drawn out of the cabinet, a ribbon roller (A,B) on which a belt-like ink ribbon used for transferring to a recording sheet is wound, a driving unit (A,B) which drives the ribbon roller for rotation by being connected to a rotating shaft (A,B) of the ribbon roller when the drawer unit is loaded in the cabinet, and a disengaging member () which is provided on the cabinet and which disengages the driving unit from the rotating shaft when the drawer unit is drawn out of the cabinet.