Recording apparatus with motor that drives multiple transport rollers
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKeisuke Sasaki, Shinji Kanemaru, Katsumi Yamada
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Abstract
A recording apparatus includes a recording head that performs recording; a feeding roller that feeds out a medium that has been set, a transport roller that transports the medium fed out by the feeding roller toward a facing position facing the recording head; an auxiliary roller that is provided between the feeding roller and the transport roller and that assists in the transport of the medium; a motor that generates a driving force; and a drive train that is configured to transmit the driving force of the motor to the auxiliary roller and the transport roller.
Claims14
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording head that performs recording;
- a feeding roller that feeds out a medium that was set on a feed tray;
- a transport roller that transports the medium fed out by the feeding roller toward a facing position facing the recording head, wherein the transport roller is upstream of the recording head in the transport direction of the medium;
- an auxiliary roller that is provided between the feeding roller and the transport roller and that assists in the transport of the medium;
- a motor that generates driving force;
- a drive train that is configured to transmit the driving force of the motor to the auxiliary roller and the transport roller;
- an inverting path that inverts the medium;
- and
- an inverting roller that is provided on the inverting path and that moves the medium by rotating in contact with the medium, wherein
- the drive train is configured to transmit the driving force of the motor to the inverting roller;
- and
- the auxiliary roller and the inverting roller are both driven by directly receiving the driving force of the motor via the drive train.
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording head that performs recording;
- a feeding roller that feeds out a medium that was set on a feed tray;
- a transport roller that transports the medium fed out by the feeding roller toward a facing position facing the recording head, wherein the transport roller is upstream of the recording head in the transport direction of the medium;
- a discharging roller that discharges the medium that was recorded on by the recording head at the facing position;
- an auxiliary roller that is provided between the feeding roller and the transport roller and that assists in the transport of the medium;
- a motor that generates driving force;
- a drive train that is configured to transmit the driving force of the motor to the auxiliary roller and the discharging roller;
- an inverting path that inverts the medium;
- and
- an inverting roller that is provided on the inverting path and that moves the medium by rotating in contact with the medium, wherein
- the drive train is configured to transmit the driving force of the motor to the inverting roller;
- and
- the auxiliary roller, the inverting roller, and the discharging roller are all driven by directly receiving the driving force of the motor via the drive train.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.