US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Nov. 4 for "Printer with a flapper for pressing a sheet in a housing" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,277, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printer with a flapper for pressing a sheet in a housing" was invented by Kiyotaka Nihashi (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan) and Kenji Eoka (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a housing in which a sheet is stored in a rolled shape, a head by which an image is printed on the sheet, a flapper configured to pivot around an axis at a first end thereof including a surface extending from the first end to a second end of the flapper and biased to press the stored sheet against the housing, and a protrusion at the first end of the flapper that rotates around th...