US 6,982,739 B2
Tube thermal transfer printer machine
Takahisa Misawa, Tokyo (Japan); and Takefumi Kobayashi, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Max Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/505,412
PCT Filed Feb. 25, 2003, PCT No. PCT/JP03/02053
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Aug. 24, 2004,
PCT Pub. No. WO03/072364, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 04, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-054823 (JP), filed on Feb. 28, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2005/0134674 A1, Jun. 23, 2005
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 347—220 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
2. A tube thermal transfer printer comprising:
a platen roller rotatbly provided at a main body of a printer for feeding out of a tube;
a printing head arranged to be opposed to the platen roller;
an ink ribbon; and
a wrapping roller arranged upstream from the printing head and rotatbly to be opposed to the platen roller.
wherein a portion of the tube brought into contact with the wrapping roller is deformed in a planer shape by deforming the tube between the platen roller and the wrapping roller,
the tube and the ink ribbon are passed between the platen roller and the printing head, and the tube is printed by the printing head, and
wherein a material of the wrapping roller is harder than a material of the platen roller.