US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on March 18 for "Printing device capable of driving platen roller and cutter by a single motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,929, issued on March 18, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing device capable of driving platen roller and cutter by a single motor" was invented by Yuya Tagami (Nagoya, Japan) and Shinji Ukai (Kiyosu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device includes a cassette accommodation portion, a platen roller, a cutter, a motor, a first drive transmission portion and a second drive transmission portion. A printing cassette incorporating a printing tape is detachably attachable to the cassette accommodation portion. The platen roller is rotatable to convey the printing tape of the printing cassette. The f...