Medium reversing and discharging device
AssigneePfu Limited
InventorsYoshito Hirai, Ryoichi Yasukawa
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Abstract
A medium reversing and discharging device includes a discharger that discharges a medium in a paper discharge direction from a discharge outlet, a holder that holds and reverses the medium, and a driver that moves the holder such that when a first plane along a portion of the medium in contact with the discharge outlet does not intersect with a second plane along a portion of the medium held by the holder on a downstream side in the paper discharge direction of the discharge outlet a moving speed at which the holder moves is lower than a discharge speed at which the medium is discharged from the discharge outlet.
Claims10
A medium reversing and discharging device comprising:
- a discharger that discharges a medium in a first direction such that a portion of the medium in contact with the discharger is arranged along a first plane;
- a holder that holds a leading end of the medium when the leading end of the medium is traveling along the first direction;
- a driver that moves the holder to a standby position while the holder holds the leading end of the medium;
- and
- a stopper,
- wherein the leading end of the medium held by the holder is arranged along a second plane when the holder reaches the standby position,
- wherein the first plane and the second plane intersect each other upstream of the first direction with respect to the discharger,
- wherein a moving speed at which the holder moves at the standby position is lower than a discharge speed at which the medium is discharged in the first direction, and
- wherein after a trailing end of the medium is released from the discharger, the driver moves the holder from the standby position such that the leading end of the medium abuts on the stopper and comes off the holder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.