Printer
CA 2216957 A1 · Owner: Sekiya, Hiroaki · Inventors: Sekiya, Hiroaki
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Assembly process of a small printer having a thermal head and a platen incorporated in a frame is simplified. A frame 1 comprises a pair of side wall portions formed along left and right faces L and R and a base portion formed along a bottom face D for connecting the side wall portions. Bearings 11 having notches 13 respectively, are integrally formed inside the side wall portions facing each other. Deformed support shafts 12 are formed at both ends of a thermal head 3. When the thermal head 3 is dropped from an opening in a top face U of the frame 1 toward the bottom face D, the support shafts 12 detachably engage with corresponding bearings 11 via the notches 13. After the engagement the …
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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 October 15, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 15, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 15, 2019.
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