Recorders – Thermal recording
Patent
1988-11-25
1990-05-08
Reynolds, Bruce A.
Recorders
Thermal recording
400120, G01D 1510
Patent
active
049242423
ABSTRACT:
A transfer type thermal recording apparatus suitable for use in a facsimile machine and the like is provided. The apparatus includes a thermal print head and a sheet of recording paper is transported as pressed against the thermal print head with an ink sheet sandwiched between the recording paper and the thermal print head. An ink sheet cassette is detachably mounted in position and it includes a cassette case, a supply spool around which a roll of ink sheet is wound initially and a take-up spool to which the leading end of the ink sheet is fixedly attached. The cassette case is generally box-shaped and it has four pin receiving portions formed at a pair of opposite side walls of the case. The apparatus also includes a housing in which four pins are disposed in a predetermined arrangement. Thus, the ink sheet cassette can be properly set in position through engagement between the four pins of the housing and the four pin receiving portions of the cassette.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4702631 (1987-10-01), Watanabe
Reynolds Bruce A.
Ricoh & Company, Ltd.
Tran Huan
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