ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,243, issued on March 24, 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 moves towards a continuous sheet by a predetermined distance and applies a tensile force to the continuous sheet on a conveying path on which the continuous sheet is conveyed by the feed roller. The printer further includes a limiter that switches a state of the damper between an unlimited state in which a movement distance for the damper is not limited and a limited state in which the movement distance for th...