Seiko Epson Corporation

Kazunori Mori

Hikari Shomura

Satoshi Chiba

Yoshikazu Koike

Seiji Kawabata

Yutaro Kajitani

Masato Ogawa

Eiichiro Watanabe

Seiichi Taniguchi

Tsuyoshi Furumido

Fumiya Takino

Yosaku Tamura

Kenji Uchibori

Koji Hara

Satoshi Negishi

A scanner includes a second glass member, a main body frame, a sheet member, a document transport unit, a reading unit, and a control unit. The sheet member is arranged on the second glass member. The document transport unit transports a document such that the document is brought into contact with the second glass member in a first position and the document is brought into contact with the second glass member in a second position. The reading unit reads the document in a third position between the first position and the second position, the third position in which the document is out of contact with the sheet member and the second glass member. The control unit identifies the third position in accordance with a position of the sheet member detected by the reading unit.

Reading apparatus, method of controlling reading apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program causing computer to control reading apparatus to correct reading position of document

An image reading apparatus includes a document bed on which a document is placed, an automatic document feeder (an example of an opening/closing member) configured to be opened/closed with respect to the document bed, a rotational supporting section provided at one end of the document bed and rotatably supporting the automatic document feeder with respect to the document bed, and a height adjustment mechanism that adjusts the height of the automatic document feeder relative to the document bed. The rotational supporting section has a holding section fixed to the document bed and a rotary fulcrum section attached to the holding section and being movable in the up-down direction relative to the holding section. The height adjustment mechanism adjusts the height of the rotary fulcrum section relative to the holding section to adjust the height of the automatic document feeder relative to the document bed and overlaps the holding section and the rotary fulcrum section in the vertical direction.

Image reading apparatus including height adjustment mechanism without increasing overall size thereof

Provided is an image reading device including: a reading unit reading an image on a document; a carriage moving with the reading unit; a detector included in the carriage and having a predetermined width in a movement direction of the carriage; a detection sensor being in a detection state when the detector is located at a position where the detector faces the detection sensor and being in a non-detection state when the detector is located at a position where the detector does not face the detection sensor; and a control portion configured to perform a positional shift determination operation of determining a positional shift of the carriage, in which, as the positional shift determination operation, the control portion starts to move the carriage when the detection sensor is in the detection state and determines the positional shift of the carriage, based on a moving amount of the carriage.

Image reading device and recording device

There is provided a recording apparatus with which it is possible to reduce an occupied space to a small size in a configuration of including a mounting unit and a receiving unit.

Recording apparatus

A medium transporting apparatus includes a transport belt that has a loop shaped, an clinging mechanism that causes a medium to cling to the transport belt, a rotation mechanism that rotates the transport belt in a first and second rotation direction, and an intermediate stacker on which the medium transported by the transport belt is stacked, in which the clinging mechanism cling an upper surface that is opposite to a lower surface of the medium on the intermediate stacker side, and after rotating the transport belt, to which the medium is cling, in the first rotation direction to transport the medium in a first transport direction, the rotation mechanism rotates the transport belt in the second rotation direction to transport the medium in a second transport direction that is opposite to the first transport direction so as to stack the medium on the intermediate stacker.

Medium transporting apparatus and post-processing apparatus

A medium processing apparatus includes a processing unit that performs processing on a sheet-like medium; an outer wall on which a discharge port, from which the medium processed by the processing unit is discharged, is open; a stacking portion that has a stacking surface on which the medium discharged from the discharge port is stacked; a suction unit that sucks air on the stacking surface via a suction port provided below the discharge port; and a control unit that controls a workload of the suction unit. The control unit reduces the workload of the suction unit according to an open area of the suction port which is occluded by the medium stacked on the stacking portion and is decreased.

Medium processing apparatus

When a wave shape is formed in a sheet of paper, a suppression of a reduction in recording quality that is caused by a shape of the paper is achieved, and thus, favorable recording quality is obtained.

A printer includes a corrugating section disposed on an upstream side of a line head, the corrugating section being configured to alternately form crests and troughs in a sheet in a width direction which intersects a medium transport direction, a relaxing section that can be switched between a relaxing position in which the corrugations formed by the corrugating section are relaxed and a maintaining position in which the corrugations are maintained with respect to the sheet on a downstream side of the line head between the line head and branch points of transport paths and a controller configured to control the switching of the relaxing section between the relaxing position and the maintaining position. The controller switches the relaxing section depending on a transport destination of the recorded sheet.

A recording apparatus includes: a recording head; a transportation path along which the medium is transported via a head facing region which faces the recording head; and a maintenance unit used for maintenance of the recording head, wherein the head facing region, which is a region of the transportation path which faces the recording head, is inclined with respect to a horizontal direction, and the recording head is provided to be rotatable, and when rotating, the recording head can be switched between a first position in which the head surface is inclined along an inclination of the head facing region, the first position being a position for performing recording, and a second position in which the head surface becomes horizontal or becomes more horizontal than in the first position, the second position being a position for performing maintenance by the maintenance unit.

A recording apparatus is provided that is able to increase the medium load capacity of a receiving portion in a configuration provided with a mounting portion and receiving portion.

Convex portions formed on a sheet of paper by a forming section are maintained in a favorable condition and good recording quality is obtained.

A recording apparatus which suppresses banding which occurs on a recording surface of a medium.

Medium transport device and recording apparatus

A recording apparatus includes a recording head on which a plurality of nozzle rows are arranged in a width direction that intersects with a transfer direction; and a support section which includes a discarding section which includes a position which faces the nozzle rows and allows ink ejected by the recording head to pass therethrough, and a support surface which is disposed at a position which does not face the nozzle rows and is configured to support the paper sheet, wherein the support surface includes a first support surface which is disposed in a region which faces gaps between the nozzle rows in the width direction and a second support surface which extends in a region longer than a region in which the first support surface is disposed in the width direction, and the first support surface and the second support surface are formed to be flush with each other.

Recording apparatus having support section with a discarding section

A recording apparatus includes a supporting portion that supports a sheet of paper transported and a recording head fixedly disposed at a position opposing the supporting portion, for recording. The recording head has nozzle rows for ejecting ink, and the nozzle rows are arranged side by side in the recording head in a direction intersecting a transport direction of the sheet. The supporting portion has a dumping portion including a position opposite the nozzle rows of the recording head, and the dumping portion is capable of receiving the ink ejected from the nozzle rows when the recording head performs flushing. The supporting portion has a supporting surface capable of supporting the sheet at a position not opposite the nozzle rows of the recording head. A slope inclining relative to the supporting surface is disposed in at least part of the boundary region between the dumping portion and the supporting surface.

Recording apparatus with an enhanced medium support structure

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head that has a nozzle opening surface in which the nozzles open, a displacing mechanism formed to change a posture of the liquid ejecting head between a first posture in which the nozzle opening surface is inclined with respect to the horizontal and a second posture in which an inclination of the nozzle opening surface is smaller than the inclination of the nozzle opening surface in the first posture, and a wiping member to wipe the liquid ejecting head. On the nozzle opening surface, if a vertical lower end in the first posture is a first end and a vertical upper end in the first posture is a second end, the wiping member wipes the liquid ejecting head from the first end side toward the second end side when the liquid ejecting head is in the second posture.

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Matsumoto, Japan

Kazunori Mori