US 10,864,757 B2Granted

Medium transporting apparatus and recording apparatus

AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation

InventorsKeisuke Sasaki, Takayuki Tanaka, Toshiki Shiroki

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Abstract

In a printer, a medium transporting apparatus includes a straight path through which a medium on which recording has been performed with the recording head is output, an inversion path through which the recording medium on which recording has been performed with the recording head is output to an output destination different from an output destination of the straight path, a switching member provided downstream of the recording head in a medium transport direction and configured to switch between a first state in which the switching member constitutes a portion of the straight path and a second state in which the switching member constitutes a portion of the inversion path, a motor that drives a pair of transport rollers that transports the medium, and a switching mechanism that switches between a first state and a second state with motive power of the motor.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A medium transporting apparatus comprising:

a first transport path that outputs a medium that has been processed in a processing unit in which processing of the medium is performed;
a second transport path that outputs the medium processed in the processing unit to an output destination that is different from an output destination of the first transport path;
a switching member that is provided downstream of the processing unit in a medium transport direction and that is configured to switch between a first state in which the switching member constitutes a portion of a path surface of the first transport path, and a second state in which the switching member constitutes a portion of a path surface of the second transport path;
a drive source that drives a transport unit that transports the medium;
and
a switching mechanism that switches the switching member between the first state and the second state with motive power of the drive source, wherein
by switching between the first state and the second state, switching between the first transport path and the second transport path is performed.

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Facts

Application: 16/434,477Filed 7 Jun 2019
Priority: JP 2018-11096411 Jun 2018
Published: US 2019/0375218 A112 Dec 2019
Granted: 15 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification21 codes

B41J 13/0036
Control of the transport of the copy material: in the output section of automatic paper handling systems
B41J 13/009
Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or…
B41J 13/0045
Control of the transport of the copy material: concerning sheet refeed sections of automatic paper handling systems, e.g. intermediate stackers
B41J 29/38
Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for: drives, motors, controls or automatic…

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