Printing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsTatsuya Shirane, Toshio Miyake
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Abstract
A printer includes a first sensor configured to identify a section to be identified of a movable tray. A computer in the printer drives a motor in a direction where the movable tray heads to a supplying position and stops driving the motor when an impact, where the drive load on the motor exceeds a threshold due to the movable tray hitting a separating mechanism which is at the supplying position, is detected. In addition, the computer drives the motor in a direction where the movable tray heads to a setting position, and stops driving the motor and arranges the movable tray at the setting position when the first sensor is on due to the section to be identified being identified.
Claims7
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a medium accommodating section configured to be movable and accommodate a medium, the medium accommodating section having a section to be identified configured to identify a position of the medium accommodating section, the medium accommodating section being configured to move between a setting position where the medium accommodating section is set in a body of the printing apparatus and a supplying position where the medium which is accommodated in the medium accommodating section is supplied;
- a sensor configured to identify the section to be identified;
- a driving section configured to drive the medium accommodating section to move between the setting position and the supplying position;
- a regulating section configured to regulate further movement when the medium accommodating section reaches the supplying position;
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- a control section configured to detect that the medium accommodating section is at the setting position by the sensor identifying the section to be identified and detect that the medium accommodating section has reached the supplying position when the medium accommodating section hits the regulating section and a drive load on the driving section exceeds a threshold,
- when the driving section is not driving the medium accommodating section, the control section being further configured to detect taking out of the medium accommodating section when the sensor switches from an identifying state where the section to be identified is identified to a non-identifying state where the section to be identified is not identified, and detect mounting of the medium accommodating section when the sensor switches from the non-identifying state to the identifying state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.