ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,672, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus and roll holding device" was invented by Ryo Harigae (Tokyo) and Itaru Wada (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a printing apparatus performing printing on a sheet drawn out from a roll, comprising: a roll holding unit; a support unit rotatably supporting the roll holding unit; a core portion provided to the roll holding unit and inserted into a hollow portion of the core pipe from an end portion of the core pipe to extend along an axis of the core pipe; a first contact member provided to the core portion and elastically deformed to ...