Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and winding-deviation prevention method
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Application No.: US15005135Application Date: 2016-01-25
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Publication No.: US09958820B2Publication Date: 2018-05-01
- Inventor: Toshihiko Numazu , Yasuhiro Tsuyuki
- Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP
- Priority: JP2015-027422 20150216
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; B65H23/038 ; B65H18/10

Abstract:
In a front/back reversing unit, a base metal sheet having rollers attached thereon is engaged with a rotation spindle fixed to a fitting such that the base metal sheet is rotatable in a horizontal direction. When an operation of rolling up a print target medium is started and if winding tension with respect to the print target medium to be wrapped around a winding shaft becomes unbalanced, the front/back reversing unit rotates in accordance with the winding tension so as to balance the winding tension. Then, when the winding tension applied to the print target medium becomes balanced, the front/back reversing unit is returned to its original position by an elastic member, and the roller of the front/back reversing unit and the winding shaft become substantially parallel to each other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160236891A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND WINDING-DEVIATION PREVENTION METHOD Public/Granted day:2016-08-18
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