Thermal printer
CA 2010129 C · Owner: Fukumoto, Hiroshi · Inventors: Nakamura, Hisashi; Fukumoto, Hiroshi
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A thermal printer has a tension roller which rotates at a peripheral speed higher than that of a platen roller. A recording paper after a thermal transfer of an ink thereto is tensed by the tension roller so that separation of the transferred ink from an ink sheet is conducted at a constant separation angle, thus ensuring high uniformity of the printing quality.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed February 15, 1990 and granted April 23, 1996. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 15, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 15, 2012.
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