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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2019
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Furumido, Shiojiri, JP;
Kazunori Mori, Matsumoto, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.