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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 26, 2019
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kohei Ueno, Matsumoto, JP;

Nobuyuki Mizushima, Shiojiri, JP;

Yutaro Harada, Shiojiri, JP;

Shunpei Yamaguchi, Shiojiri, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 31/10 (2006.01); B65H 31/34 (2006.01); B65H 31/36 (2006.01); B65H 31/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 31/10 (2013.01); B65H 31/04 (2013.01); B65H 31/34 (2013.01); B65H 31/36 (2013.01); B65H 2301/45 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4505 (2013.01);
Abstract

A medium transport device includes a feed roller pair, a stack portion that receives a medium transported by the feed roller pair between a support surface for supporting the medium in an inclined posture in which a downstream side in a transport direction is directed downward and an opposing surface opposing the support surface and stacks the medium, an alignment portion that aligns a downstream end of the medium stacked in the stack portion, and a control unit that controls a distance between the support surface and the opposing surface, in which the stack portion is configured to be capable of changing the distance and the control unit adjusts the distance according to a condition.


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