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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2017
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Ryuji Moriyama, Nagano, JP;
Hiroyuki Maeda, Nagano, JP;
Atsushi Nakazawa, Nagano, JP;
Noritsuna Rokuhara, Nagano, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/01 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 13/0009 (2013.01); B41J 2/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a transport portion that transports a medium, a printing head that performs printing on the medium, a medium detection device that is arranged upstream of the printing head in a transport direction of the medium and detects a side edge of the medium in a width direction intersecting with the transport direction, and a control unit that controls the transport portion, the printing head, and the medium detection device.