Title:
RIBBON CASSETTE AND TAPE PRINTER
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2002/018147
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
A ribbon cassette capable of being prevented from rising during printing and a tape printer having the ribbon cassette loaded therein, wherein a ribbon spool (131) having the ink ribbon (130) wound thereon so that the print surface thereof faces outward is stored rotatably in the ribbon storage part (118) of the ribbon cassette (71), a ribbon wind-up spool (132) having the tip part of the ink ribbon (130) fixed thereto is stored rotatably in the ribbon wind-up storage part (119) of the ribbon cassette (71) and, when characters are printed on a roll sheet (10), a ribbon wind-up gear (108) installed at the axial one end of the ribbon wind-up spool (132) is drivingly rotated through a ribbon clutch gear (107B), and the ink ribbon (130) is wound up on the ribbon wind-up spool (132) so that the print surface thereof faces inward.
Inventors:
KATO SHIGEKI (JP)
CHIKAMOTO TADANOBU (JP)
KUWABARA HIROKAZU (JP)
TAKAHASHI TOSHIHIRO (JP)
OGAWA YASUHIRO (JP)
CHIKAMOTO TADANOBU (JP)
KUWABARA HIROKAZU (JP)
TAKAHASHI TOSHIHIRO (JP)
OGAWA YASUHIRO (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2001/007253
Publication Date:
March 07, 2002
Filing Date:
August 24, 2001
Export Citation:
Assignee:
BROTHER IND LTD (JP)
KATO SHIGEKI (JP)
CHIKAMOTO TADANOBU (JP)
KUWABARA HIROKAZU (JP)
TAKAHASHI TOSHIHIRO (JP)
OGAWA YASUHIRO (JP)
KATO SHIGEKI (JP)
CHIKAMOTO TADANOBU (JP)
KUWABARA HIROKAZU (JP)
TAKAHASHI TOSHIHIRO (JP)
OGAWA YASUHIRO (JP)
International Classes:
B41J3/407; B41J11/42; B41J17/32; (IPC1-7): B41J17/32; B41J17/02; B41J17/24; B41J17/30
Foreign References:
| US5769547A | 1998-06-23 | |||
| JPH01132749U | 1989-09-08 | |||
| JPH0363152A | 1991-03-19 | |||
| JPH0747737A | 1995-02-21 | |||
| US4915516A | 1990-04-10 | |||
| JPS6444148U | 1989-03-16 | |||
| US5342131A | 1994-08-30 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Muto, Katsunori c/o BROTHER TECHNO CORPORATION 15-1 (Naeshiro-cho Mizuho-ku Nagoya-shi, Aichi, JP)
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