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Seiko Epson Corporation

Miwa Shimizu

Yuji Miyamoto

Tsuyoshi Yamanaka

A recording-medium returning mechanism includes: a feed roller, provided to a feed-roller shaft that can be rotated, for coming into contact with a recording medium and feeding it; a hopper including a holder for holding a plurality of recording media stacked, the hopper being located at a position allowing the recording media on the holder to come into contact with the feed roller while being pressed against the feed roller and a position moving the recording media on the holder away from the feed roller; a separator for separating an uppermost recording medium on the holder from another recording medium simultaneously fed with the uppermost recording medium; and a return lever for returning the other recording medium to the holder.

Recording-medium returning mechanism and a recording apparatus including the same, and medium-returning mechanism and a liquid ejection apparatus including the same

A recording apparatus including an automatic feeding mechanism for picking up one of recording media placed on a feed tray one by one and feeding the recording medium is provided. The automatic feeding mechanism includes: the feed tray on which a predetermined number of recording medium can be placed; a hopper for pushing the recording media on the feed tray toward a feed roller; and a separator located in a downstream of the hopper near the hopper. The automatic feeding mechanism picks up the recording media one by one in an order from an uppermost recording medium to a lowermost recording medium and feeds the recording medium thus picked to its downstream by an action of the feed roller and the hopper to sandwich and transfer the recording medium and a separating action of the separator. The automatic feeding mechanism can be rotated around a fulcrum of rotation so as to be foldable.

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Nagano-ken, Japan

Miwa Shimizu