Seiko Epson Corporation

Satoshi Negishi

Katsumi Okuhara

Masaki Shimomura

Atsuhiko Takeuchi

Yosuke Nakano

Kazunori Mori

Ryo Honma

Hikari Shomura

Naoki Horie

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.

Recording apparatus

A transport-object transporting device includes a power-transmission blocking mechanism that blocks the transmission of power at an intermediate point of the cam driving gear train so as to maintain the discharge roller in the release position. The power-transmission blocking mechanism includes an engaged portion provided in the rocking arm, and an engaging portion whose engagement position thereof relative to the engaged portion is changeable by changing a rocking direction of the rocking arm. When the engaging portion is set at a predetermined engagement position relative to the engaged portion, the first planetary gear and the second planetary gear are both kept away from the cam driving gear.

Transport-object transporting device and image processing apparatus

A method for driving a medium supplying apparatus which supplies medium by a pick-up roller, wherein an operation of stopping rotation of the pick-up roller is inserted at least one of before an operation of supplying medium to a separating position where, when a plurality of sheets of medium are fed together by the pick-up roller displaced to the supplying position, an uppermost sheet of the plurality of sheets of medium is separated from a lower sheet or sheets, and before an operation of returning the separated lower sheet or sheets after separating the uppermost sheet from the lower sheet or sheets.

Medium supplying apparatus, method for driving medium supplying apparatus, computer readable medium including drive-control program and recording device

A carriage device includes a circuit substrate having a conductive connection portion, a connector having a plurality of contact arms, a connector holder in which the circuit substrate and the connector are installed, and a carriage in which a recording head unit is built and an ink cartridge having a conductive connection portion is housed and to which the connector holder is attached with both ends of the connector holder held, wherein contact terminals of the plurality of contact arms of the connector elastically contact the conductive connection portion of the circuit substrate and the conductive connection portion of the ink cartridge which are respectively disposed on both sides of the connector so as to electrically conduct between the circuit substrate and the ink cartridge, wherein a back side support member contacting the circuit substrate for regulating deformation of a face of the circuit substrate on the basis of the elastic contact is provided in the carriage, and wherein a deformation preventing support member is formed on a side opposite a side, on which the circuit substrate is installed, of the connector holder and the deformation preventing support member is configured to be able to contact a supported portion formed inside of the carriage.

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Shiojiri, Japan

Satoshi Negishi