US 11,712,912 B2
Printing apparatus
Shotaro Watanabe, Nagoya (JP); Yushi Kato, Nagoya (JP); Sho Asai, Ama (JP); Yusuke Ikemoto, Nagoya (JP); and Takehiko Inaba, Chita (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/562,900.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-219182 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0203723 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 29/13 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 15/042 (2013.01) [B41J 3/4075 (2013.01); B41J 29/13 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a print head configured to perform printing on a printing medium;
a main body having an accommodation part accommodating the printing medium;
an opening/closing cover supported by the main body so as to be swingable between a closed position and an opened position, the opening/closing cover covering the accommodation part in a case the opening/closing cover is in the closed position, the opening/closing cover opening the accommodation part in a case the opening/closing cover is in the opened position;
a support member provided to the opening/closing cover; and
a platen holder fixed to the support member and configured to rotatably support a platen roller, the platen roller being configured to convey the printing medium at a position facing the print head in the case the opening/closing cover is in the closed position,
wherein the opening/closing cover is pivotally supported by the main body so as to be swingable by a support shaft,
wherein the support member includes:
a base part fixed to the opening/closing cover at a first position, and
a receipt part to which the platen holder is attached and fixed,
wherein the receipt part is provided in a position more distant from the support shaft than the base part,
wherein the platen holder includes an attachment part attached and fixed to the receipt part of the support member at a second position,
wherein the platen holder is configured to support the platen roller at a third position, the third position being more distant from the support shaft than the attachment part in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction, the first direction being parallel to a shaft center direction of the platen roller, and
wherein in the second direction, in a state in which the opening/closing cover is in the closed position, the third position is more distant from the support shaft than the second position, and the second position is more distant from the support shaft than the first position.