Printer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9962970-B2
Application number	US-201515321751-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 24, 2015
Priority date	Jun 24, 2014
Publication date	May 8, 2018
Grant date	May 8, 2018

Abstract

A printer is provided with: a feed roller on which an elongated shaped medium is wound in a roll form and from which the medium is unwound and fed in a predetermined transport direction; a printing unit that prints an object to be printed on the medium fed from the feed roller; a take-up roller that takes up the medium printed by the printing unit in a roll form; and a tension applying member that applies a tension to the medium by making a contact with a surface opposite to a print surface of the medium. The tension applying member has a support portion disposed at a center position in a width direction of the medium, and an oscillation shaft extending in the width direction of the medium and adapted to oscillate in contact with the medium. The oscillation shaft is oscillated on the support portion serving as fulcrum.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printer comprising:
a feed roller on which a medium with an elongated shape is wound in a roll form and from which the medium is unwound and fed in a predetermined transport direction;
a printing unit that prints an object to be printed on the medium fed from the feed roller;
a take-up roller that takes up the medium printed by the printing unit in a roll form; and
a tension applying member that applies a tension to the medium by making a contact with the medium,
the tension applying member including:
a support portion disposed at a center position in a width direction of the medium, wherein the support portion is movable in a direction orthogonal to the transport direction of the medium and is located on a straight line extending in the transport direction; and
an oscillation shaft extending in the width direction of the medium and adapted to oscillate in contact with the medium in a thickness direction of the medium,
the oscillation shaft being oscillated on the support portion serving as fulcrum.

2. The printer as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the tension applying member is disposed at a position between the feed roller and the take-up roller.

3. The printer as set forth in claim 1 , further comprising a medium position regulation guide that regulates the medium to locate at a predetermined position in the width direction, wherein:
the support portion is disposed on a straight line passing through the center position in the width direction of the medium regulated by the medium position regulation guide and extending in the transport direction of the medium.

4. The printer as set forth in claim 3 , wherein the oscillation shaft is disposed in vicinity of the medium position regulation guide.

5. The printer as set forth in claim 3 , wherein the oscillation shaft is disposed at a position on a downstream side in the transport direction relative to the medium position regulation guide.

Assignees

• Mimaki Eng Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ohnishi Masaru

Classifications

• B65H23/26

  by transverse stationary or adjustable bars or rollers · CPC title

• B41J15/16 Primary

  Means for tensioning or winding the web · CPC title

• B41J15/165 Primary

  for tensioning continuous copy material by use of redirecting rollers or redirecting nonrevolving guides · CPC title

• B65H2301/331

  Skewing, correcting skew, i.e. changing slightly orientation of material · CPC title

• B65H2402/31

  Pivoting support means · CPC title