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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2006
Sanshiro Takeshita, Nagano, JP;
Eiichi Miyashita, Nagano, JP;
Sanshiro Takeshita, Nagano, JP;
Eiichi Miyashita, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A transport system includes a guide, operable to guide a transported medium in a transport direction; a driver, disposed at a downstream side of the guide in the transport direction, and operable to come into contact with a bottom surface of the transported medium; a presser, disposed between the guide and the driver, and operable to be displaced between a pressing position where the presser presses an upper surface of the transported medium toward the driver and a non-pressing position where the presser is separated from the upper surface of the transported medium; and a changer, adapted to be engaged with the transported medium so as to displace the presser to the pressing position from the non-pressing position, wherein a leading end of the transported medium reaches the driver before or at a time when the presser presses the transported medium.