US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on July 14 for "Printer" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,127, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printer" was invented by Toshiya Inomata (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a feeding shaft, a rolling shaft, a conveyance unit, a print head, and a turning force generation mechanism. The feeding shaft rotatably holds a supply roll in which the ink ribbon is rolled. The rolling shaft rotatably holds a collection roll in which the ink ribbon fed from the supply roll is rolled. The conveyance unit conveys a printing medium along the ink ribbon that moves from the supply roll toward the collection roll. The print head prints by b...