Invention Application
- Patent Title: PRINT UNIT AND PRINTER
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Application No.: US15684720Application Date: 2017-08-23
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Publication No.: US20180065383A1Publication Date: 2018-03-08
- Inventor: Jian Qi TEH , Min Wai KHAING , Tsuyoshi SANADA
- Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Priority: JP2016-173479 20160906
- Main IPC: B41J11/00
- IPC: B41J11/00

Abstract:
A print unit is disposed in an apparatus having a printing function. The print unit includes a print engine configured to perform printing on a continuous sheet, and a damper located on an upstream side of a sheet entrance of the print engine in a sheet traveling direction and configured to adjust tension applied to the continuous sheet to be fed to the print engine. The damper includes a sheet guide having a planar guide portion which guides the continuous sheet to the sheet entrance, and an end portion of the guide portion on a downstream side in a sheet traveling direction is configured as a fixed end resting on the sheet entrance, and another end portion thereof on an opposite side is configured as a swinging end which is elastically biased toward the continuous sheet by a spring force of a spring.
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