# US 9,751,298 B2 · Cutting apparatus, cutting method, and printing apparatus

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- Number: US 9,751,298 B2
- Document ID: US9751298B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/197,862
- Filed: 2016-06-30
- Published: 2017-01-12
- Granted: 2017-09-05
- Earliest claimed: 2015-07-09
- Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Applicants: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Inventors: Naohiro Ueyama; Naoto Hayakawa
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9751298B2

## CPC

- B41J 2/01: Ink jet
- B26D 1/18: mounted on a movable carriage
- B26D 1/185: {for thin material, e.g. for sheets, strips or the like}
- B26D 1/245: {for thin material, e.g. for sheets, strips or the like}
- B41J 11/706: {using a cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating carrier}
- 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)

## Abstract

A cutting apparatus includes a cutting blade that cuts a medium and a casing that holds the cutting blade. The casing has a first passageway in which the medium passing through contacts the cutting blade and a second passageway in which the medium passing through does not contact the cutting blade.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A cutting apparatus comprising:
a cutting blade that cuts a medium;
a casing that holds the cutting blade and that has a first passageway in which the medium passing through contacts the cutting blade and a second passageway in which the medium passing through does not contact the cutting blade; and
a guide portion that is displaceable to a first position in which the guide portion allows the medium to pass through the first passageway and a second position in which the guide portion guides the medium to the second passageway, wherein the guide portion is displaced from the second position to the first position by the medium passing through the first passageway and contacting the guide portion.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The cutting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the guide portion blocks the first passageway when the guide portion is positioned in the second position.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The cutting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the casing is viewed from above, the first passageway and the second passageway are provided at positions at which the first passageway and the second passageway at least partially overlap with each other.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

A printing apparatus comprising:
the cutting apparatus according to claim 1; and
a printing portion that prints an image on the medium.