US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on Oct. 7 for "Printer and cutter unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,493, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printer and cutter unit" was invented by Toshiyuki Tamura (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a printer includes a printing unit that prints on a strip of sheet, and a cutter unit that cuts and discharges the sheet on the downstream side of the printing unit. The cutter unit includes an elastic film that is positioned below a sheet discharge port discharging the sheet, is provided to protrude downstream in the sheet discharge direction, and touches a lower surface of the sheet with its leading end portion to support the s...