Medical printer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017165985-A1
Application number	US-201515325869-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 20, 2015
Priority date	Jul 30, 2014
Publication date	Jun 15, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

To provide a medical printer ( 100 ) that can cut a roll sheet (P) by pulling the roll sheet (P) in any of an up direction and a down direction. There is provided a medical printer including: a main body ( 102 ) that accommodates a roll sheet; a movable section ( 104 ) including a front panel ( 104 A) that covers a front face, the movable section being capable of opening and closing against the main body; a first cutting section ( 130 ) provided on the movable section, and configured to cut the roll sheet ejected from an ejection port ( 110 ) defined by the main body and the movable section; and a slide section configured to slide the front panel or the first cutting section in a radial direction with respect to a rotation center of the movable section in accordance with open and closed states of the movable section.

First claim

1 . A medical printer comprising:
a main body that accommodates a roll sheet; a movable section including a front panel that covers a front face, the movable section being capable of opening and closing against the main body; a first cutting section provided on the movable section, and configured to cut the roll sheet ejected from an ejection port defined by the main body and the movable section; and a slide section configured to slide the front panel or the first cutting section in a radial direction with respect to a rotation center of the movable section in accordance with open and closed states of the movable section.

2 . The medical printer according to claim 1 , wherein
the slide section includes a rib provided on an inner face of the front panel, and a cam provided on the main body in a manner that the cam abuts the rib, and when the movable section is in the open state, the front panel is slid by the cam outward in the radial direction, and the first cutting section is accommodated in the front panel that has been slid.

3 . The medical printer according to claim 2 , wherein
the cam is shaped to slide the front panel outward in the radial direction when the movable section opens by a predetermined angle from the closed state.

4 . The medical printer according to claim 1 , wherein
the slide section includes a protrusion provided at a position at which a bottom face of the front panel faces a bottom face of the main body when the movable section is in the open state, and when the movable section is in the open state, the front panel is slid by the protrusion outward in the radial direction, and the first cutting section is accommodated in the front panel that has been slid.

5 . The medical printer according to claim 1 , wherein
the slide section includes a slider that is provided on an opposite side to a cutting edge of the first cutting section, and a guide section that is provided on the main body and guides the slider, and when the movable section is in the open state, the slider is slid by the guide section outward in the radial direction, and the first cutting section is accommodated in the front panel.

6 . The medical printer according to claim 1 , wherein
the slide section includes a slider that is provided on an opposite side to a cutting edge of the first cutting section, a guide section that is provided on the main body and guides the slider, and a spring member that is provided on the first cutting section in a manner that the spring member extends in a direction which connects the first cutting section to the rotation center of the movable section when the movable section is in the closed state, and when the movable section opens by a predetermined angle from the closed state, the slider is pulled by the spring member outward in the radial direction, and the first cutting section is accommodated in the front panel.

7 . The medical printer according to claim 1 , wherein
the first cutting section includes one or more cutter blades disposed in a width direction of the ejection port.

8 . The medical printer according to claim 1 , comprising:
a second cutting section provided on the main body, and configured to cut the roll sheet ejected from the ejection port.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Sone Masakazu
• Nakamura Hideo

Classifications

• B41J11/703 Primary

  Cutting of tape · CPC title

• B41J11/70 Primary

  cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed · CPC title

• B41J15/042

  for loading rolled-up continuous copy material into printers, e.g. for replacing a used-up paper roll; Point-of-sale printers with openable casings allowing access to the rolled-up continuous copy material · CPC title

• B26F3/02

  Tearing · CPC title

• B26D2001/006

  the cutting blade having a special shape, e.g. a special outline, serrations · CPC title