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US 9,427,982 B2Granted
Recording apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKazuyoshi Ohashi, Akinobu Nakahata
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Abstract
A recording apparatus includes a recording head that performs recording on a medium; a first roller that inverts the medium which is fed from a side of the recording head; and a second roller of which an outer circumferential surface is in contact with medium transportation paths before and after the medium is inverted by the first roller and which exerts a transportation force on the medium.
Claims22
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording head that performs recording on both sides of a medium;
- a feeding path that feeds the medium from a media container;
- a first roller that inverts the medium which is transported from the feeding path toward the recording head;
- a second roller that is located downstream of the first roller and which exerts a transportation force on the medium;
- a transportation path that is located downstream of the feeding path and transports the medium to the recording head;
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- a reverse side recording path that transports the medium toward the first roller to invert,
- wherein a part of the transportation path includes upper side faces of the first roller and the second roller, and a part of the reverse side recording path includes lower side faces of the first roller and the second roller, and
- wherein when the recording head performs recording on a reverse side of the medium, the medium is transported toward the reverse side recording path after the recording is performed on the reverse side of the medium.
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