Abstract: The present invention easily provides a compact recording apparatus including a paper chamber capable of containing paper and a ribbon chamber containing an ink ribbon in a manner such that the ink ribbon on a supply shaft can be taken up onto a take-up shaft, by utilizing the dead spaces in the paper chamber and the ribbon chamber. The distance between the paper chamber and the rotation center of the take-up shaft is larger than the radius of a ribbon take-up portion of the take-up shaft and is smaller than the radius of a fully taken up roll of the ink ribbon.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 20, 2006
Date of Patent:
August 18, 2009
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Inventors:
Gen Kitamura, Hitoshi Nishitani, Kenji Ito, Hideki Kawashima