Seiko Epson Corporation

Ryoichi Morisawa

Takashi Matsuki

Katsuyuki Kondo

Satoshi Tamai

Soshi Okawa

Atsushi Nakazawa

Shingo Waki

Yoshinori Yanagisawa

Shomaru Kondo

Keita Hanaoka

Masashi Ogawa

A medium transport device includes a first roller, a second roller, a first rotation shaftsupporting the first roller, a displacement mechanismconfigured to displace the first rotation shaft to a first position Pwhere the first roller and the second roller are configured to nip the medium and to a second position Pwhere bothandare separated from each other, and a doorconfigured to rotate into an opened position and into a closed position around an axis that intersects the first rotation, wherein the door includes an acting section, the displacement mechanism includes an action receiving section, and when the doorrotates to the closed position and the acting sectionno longer pushes the action receiving section, the displacement mechanism displaces the first rotation shaftfrom the first position to the second position.

Medium transport device and recording device

A medium transport device includes a medium mounting portion, a feeding roller configured to feed a first medium, a separation roller configured to separate the first medium and a second medium, a transport roller pair configured to transport the first medium sent from the feeding roller, and a driving mechanism configured to drive the separation roller. The driving mechanism causes the separation roller to rotate in a second rotational direction and applies a rotational load having a first load value to rotation of the separation roller in a first rotational direction, and switches, after a leading edge of the first medium passes through the transport roller pair and before a trailing edge of the first medium passes through between the feeding roller and the separation roller, a rotational load applied to the separation roller to a second load value that is lower than the first load value.

A direction orthogonal to an attachment/detachment direction is defined as a first direction and a direction orthogonal to the attachment/detachment direction and to the first direction is defined as a second direction. A sheet feeding cassette includes a contact portion that comes into contact with a roller separation mechanism unit, the contact portion including a first inclined surface inclined to extend along a straight line including a component in the attachment/detachment direction and a component in the first direction. The roller separation mechanism unit includes a contacted portion that comes into contact with the contact portion, the contacted portion including a second inclined surface inclined to extend along a straight line including a component in the attachment/detachment direction and a component in the second direction.

Medium conveyance device and recording device

A medium transport apparatus includes a first and a second transport path, a third transport path formed the first transport path and the second transport path merging at a merging point, a door that is displaceable between a closed state in which the door forms at least a portion of the first transport path and an opened state in which at least a portion of the first transport path is opened, and a switching section that is arranged at the merging point and that is, while the door is in the closed state, displaceable between a first state in which the second transport path is opened and a second state in which the first transport path is opened, wherein when the door is in the opened state, the switching section is displaced to a third state in which at least a portion of the second transport path is opened.

Medium transport apparatus and recording apparatus

A recording apparatus includes: an output tray into which the paper sheet on which recording has been performed is outputted, wherein the output tray has a rib&#x2014;includes a pair of first ribs disposed at an upstream position, the pair of first ribs being elongated in an output direction and protruding, and a pair of second ribs disposed at a downstream position, the pair of second ribs being elongated in the output direction and protruding, the output tray has an upstanding end portion (edge receiving section) formed at a downstream end in the output direction, the second rib is formed to be continuous from the edge receiving section, and each of the pair of first ribs and the pair of second ribs are symmetrically arranged to a center (center line) in a width direction, which is perpendicular to the output direction of the paper sheet.

Recording apparatus

A recording apparatus includes a sheet feeding device including a sheet feed tray on which a medium is mounted in an inclined orientation, a feeding roller configured to feed the medium, and a sheet feed slot that is defined by the sheet feed tray and the feeding roller i, and a recording section configured to perform recording onto the medium fed from the sheet feeding device. The recording apparatus includes a scanner unit that is disposed on a body of the recording apparatus and functions as a reading device for reading a document, and a guiding member that is inclined from a side surface of a guiding member installation section that is a side surface of the scanner unit on a sheet feed tray side in a state in which the scanner unit is closed with respect to the body of the recording apparatus.

A medium accommodation cassette includes a first medium accommodation portion that forms a portion of a medium accommodation region and a second medium accommodation portion that forms a portion of the medium accommodation region and is configured to be switchable between a first state and a second state in which the second medium accommodation portion is displaced from a position thereof in the first state in a cassette removing direction so as to stretch the medium accommodation region. A step portion on a side surface, which is formed between the first medium accommodation portion and the second medium accommodation portion, is positioned inside an insertion/removal mouth when the second medium accommodation portion assumes the second state in the state in which the medium accommodation cassette is installed in the insertion/removal mouth.

A media supplying apparatus includes a first support portion, a second support portion, a housing portion, and a holding portion. The first support portion has a first supporting surface for supporting a paper sheet, is inclinably provided, and when inclined from a non-use state, switches to a use state. The second support portion has a second supporting surface that supports the paper sheet, and is disposed upstream of the first support portion in the use state in a supply direction of the paper sheet. The housing portion is, inclinably toward an upstream of the first supporting portion in the supply direction, provided, and retractably houses the second support portion. The holding portion holds the first support portion and the housing portion in an inclination orientation so that the first supporting surface and the second supporting surface are aligned in the supply direction.

Media supplying apparatus and recording apparatus

Provided is a sheet placement apparatus that is capable of changing the force of pushing a hopper configured to push up a sheet, without an increase in size, and a printing apparatus that is equipped with such a sheet placement apparatus.

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Shiojiri, Japan

Ryoichi Morisawa