US 12,434,496 B2
Printer system
Katsuhisa Ono, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 18/549,970
Filed by DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed May 11, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/019999
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 11, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/244666, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 24, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-083443 (JP), filed on May 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0174009 A1, May 30, 2024
Int. Cl. B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 29/02 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 15/04 (2013.01) [B41J 29/02 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printer system comprising three or more modules that are successively disposed and are coupled to each other,
wherein
a module on an upstream side has a print sheet feeding function of feeding a print sheet,
a module on a downstream side has a print sheet winding function of winding the print sheet,
another module includes a printer module that performs printing on the print sheet, and
each of the modules has a housing and has, on one surface of the housing, a coupling body that protrudes from the one surface and has a smaller size than the housing,
between the neighboring modules coupled to each other, the other surface of the housing of one module is coupled to the outer surface of the coupling body of the other module,
wherein each of the modules includes a coupling body on only one side of the module and an insertion pin on the housing on the opposite side of the module, and
wherein each of the coupling bodies face in the same direction and each of the insertion pins face in the same and opposite direction with respect to the coupling bodies.