ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,655, issued on March 17, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printer" was invented by Kiyotaka Nihashi (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a printer includes a damper that applies tension to continuous paper by moving a predetermined distance toward the continuous paper in a conveying path of the continuous paper to be conveyed. The printer further includes a limiter that switches a state of the damper between a non-limited state in which a moving distance of the damper is not limited and a limited state in which the moving distance of the damper is limited to reduce tension to ...