Recording device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKeita Hanaoka, Yusuke Higuchi
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Abstract
A printer includes a curved path through which a medium is transported toward a line head, a transport roller pair provided in the curved path, pinching the medium by a driving roller and a driven roller at a pinching position, and transporting the medium, a gate portion having a contact surface configured to switch between a contact position located upstream of the pinching position in a transport direction in the curved path and a retreat position at which the contact surface does not contact with the medium, and a guide portion guiding a tip of the transported medium to the contact surface located at the contact position.
Claims15
A recording device comprising:
- a recording unit that performs recording on a medium;
- a transport path through which the medium is transported toward the recording unit;
- a transport roller pair having a first roller and a second roller which are provided in the transport path, pinching the medium by the first roller and the second roller at a pinching position, and transporting the medium toward the recording unit in a transport direction;
- a gate portion that has a contact surface and is configured to switch between an advance state in which the contact surface is located at a contact position located upstream of the pinching position in the transport direction in the transport path and comes into contact with a tip of the medium, and a retreat state in which the contact surface retreats from the contact position;
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- a guide portion that guides the tip of the transported medium to the contact surface located at the contact position, the guide portion protruding further in a radial direction of the first roller than does an outer periphery of the first roller when viewed in a direction along a rotary shaft of the first roller,
- wherein the guide portion is separate from the gate portion and defines the at least a portion of the transport path.
A recording device comprising:
- a recording unit that performs recording on a medium;
- a transport path through which the medium is transported toward the recording unit;
- a transport roller pair having a first roller and a second roller which are provided in the transport path, pinching the medium by the first roller and the second roller at a pinching position, and transporting the medium toward the recording unit in a transport direction;
- a gate portion that has a contact surface and is configured to switch between an advance state in which the contact surface is located at a contact position located upstream of the pinching position in the transport direction in the transport path and comes into contact with a tip of the transported medium, and a retreat state in which the contact surface retreats from the contact position;
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- a guide portion that guides the tip of the transported medium to the contact surface located at the contact position, wherein
- the transport roller pair is configured to transport the medium in a state in which a first surface recorded by the recording unit comes into contact with the first roller,
- the first roller is a toothed roller having a plurality of teeth configured to come into point contact with the medium, and
- wherein the guide portion is separate from the gate portion and defines the at least a portion of the transport path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.