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US 2003/0151653 A1Published application
Ink-jet recording device and control method thereof
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsHidehiko Inokuchi, Yutaka Miyazono, Kazuyuki Nakashima
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Abstract
A reference position of any size recording sheet P within a sheet feeding cassette is located on a front surface side.
Claims15
An ink-jet recording device comprising:
- a medium feed portion for feeding recording media;
- a transporting system for transporting a recording medium from said medium feed portion, said transporting system including a pickup member for picking up a recording medium placed in said medium feed potion and a direction changing member for changing a transporting direction of the recording medium to invert a main component of a vector representing a transporting direction of the recording medium picked up by said pickup member;
- a medium discharge portion to which recorded recording medium transported by said transporting system is discharged;
- and
- a recording head for ejecting ink toward a recording medium,
- wherein a bottom of said direction changing member is located at a position lower than said pickup roller with respect to a height direction.
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An ink-jet recording device comprising:
- a medium feed portion for feeding recording media;
- a transporting system for transporting a recording medium from said medium feed portion, said transporting system including a pickup member for picking up a recording medium placed in said medium feed potion, and a direction changing member for changing a transporting direction of the recording medium so as to invert a main component of a vector representing a transporting direction of the recording medium picked up by said pickup member;
- a medium discharge portion to which recorded recording medium transported by said transporting system is discharged;
- and
- a recording head for ejecting ink toward a recording medium,
- wherein the recording medium transported by said direction changing member has a vector directed downward with respect to the height direction of said device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.