# US 11,993,074 B2 · Printing device including detachable discharge tray positioned below cutter unit > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,993,074 B2 - Document ID: US11993074B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/179,729 - Filed: 2023-03-07 - Published: 2023-06-29 - Granted: 2024-05-28 - Earliest claimed: 2020-03-30 - Assignees: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Hiroaki Takahashi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11993074B2 ## CPC - B41J 11/70: cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed - B26D 1/185: {for thin material, e.g. for sheets, strips or the like} - B41J 13/0045: {concerning sheet refeed sections of automatic paper handling systems, e.g. intermediate stackers (printing on both faces B41J3/60)} - B65H 35/0086: {using movable cutting elements} - B65H 37/06: for folding - B41J: TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - B26D: CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING (for growing crops or plants A01D, A01G; for fodder or straw A01F; for bulk butter A01J; for dough A21C; slaughtering A22B; for tobacco, cigars or cigarettes A24; marking-out, perforating or making buttonholes A41H25/00; manufacturing footwear A43D; brushmaking A46D; surgery A61B; disintegrating, mincing or shredding in general B02C; cutting wire, making pins or nails B21F, B21G; of the kind used formetal B23; cutting by abrasive fluid jets B24C5/02; hand-held cutting tools B26B; perforating, cutting-out, stamping-out or punching, or severing by means other than cutting B26F; for wood B27; for stone B28D; working of plastics or substances in a plastic state B29; making boxes, cartons, envelopes or bags, of paper or similarly worked materials, e.g. metal foil, B31B; article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices B65H35/00; for leather or upholstery B68, C14B; for glass C03B; making matches C06F; for peat C10F; for sugar C13B45/00; for textile materials D06H; civil engineering, building, mining, see Section E; for light guides G02B6/25; cutting processed photographic material G03D15/04) - B65H: HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES ## Abstract A printing device includes: an image recording unit configured to record an image on a printing medium; a cutter unit configured to cut the printing medium on which the image is recorded by the image recording unit; and a medium receiving unit configured to receive the printing medium on which the image is recorded by the image recording unit. The cutter unit is positioned frontward of the image recording unit in a frontward direction. The medium receiving unit is positioned below the cutter unit at a time of an image recording operation and being detachable in the frontward direction. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A printing device comprising: an upper housing; a lower housing connected to the upper housing; an image recording unit disposed in the lower housing and configured to record an image on a printing medium; a processing unit comprising a processing part configured to perform processing on the printing medium on which the image is recorded by the image recording unit; a conveying unit disposed in the lower housing and configured to convey the printing medium from the image recording unit to the processing unit in a conveying direction; and a discharge tray configured to receive the printing medium on which the processing is performed by the processing part, the discharge tray having a downstream end and an upstream end opposite each other in the conveying direction, wherein the processing part is positioned below the upper housing and above the discharge tray in a vertical direction, and between the upstream end and the downstream end of the discharge tray in the conveying direction. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The printing device according to claim 1, wherein the upper housing comprises a scanner. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The printing device according to claim 1, wherein the upper housing is pivotably connected to the lower housing. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The printing device according to claim 1, further comprising an accommodation tray configured to accommodate the printing medium to be conveyed to the image recording unit, wherein the discharge tray is positioned above the accommodation tray. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The printing device according to claim 1, wherein the processing part is a cutter blade configured to cut the printing medium on which the image is recorded by the image recording unit. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The printing device according to claim 1, wherein the processing part is a rotary blade configured to form a perforated line on the printing medium on which the image is recorded by the image recording unit. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The printing device according to claim 1, wherein the processing part is a rotary plate configured to form a folding line on the printing medium on which the image is recorded by the image recording unit. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The printing device according to claim 1, further comprising an extension tray retractably supported by the discharge tray.