公开(公告)号：US20170274677A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-28

申请号：US15453284

申请日：2017-03-08

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Tetsuji YATSUNAMI ,  Takashi MATSUKI ,  Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA

IPC: B41J11/04

CPC classification number: B41J11/04 ,  B41J13/0009 ,  B41J13/0018 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B65H5/068 ,  B65H5/08 ,  B65H5/24

Abstract: A printing device includes a printing unit, a pair of transporting rollers (a pair of rollers) that is disposed right before the printing unit and that transport a medium to the printing unit, and a transportation direction changing mechanism that is disposed on an upstream side of the pair of transporting rollers and that changes a transportation direction of the medium before the medium is nipped by the pair of transporting rollers. The transportation direction changing mechanism changes a transportation direction of a following medium such that a leading end portion of the following medium overlaps a preceding medium when the printing unit performs printing in a state where the preceding medium is nipped by the pair of transporting rollers.

公开(公告)号：US20210101765A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-08

申请号：US17061666

申请日：2020-10-02

Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation

Inventor： Ryoichi MORISAWA ,  Takashi MATSUKI

IPC: B65H1/12 ,  B41J2/01 ,  B41J11/00 ,  B65H3/06 ,  B65H5/06 ,  B41J29/38

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a sheet feeding device including a sheet feed tray on which a medium is mounted in an inclined orientation, a feeding roller configured to feed the medium, and a sheet feed slot that is defined by the sheet feed tray and the feeding roller i, and a recording section configured to perform recording onto the medium fed from the sheet feeding device. The recording apparatus includes a scanner unit that is disposed on a body of the recording apparatus and functions as a reading device for reading a document, and a guiding member that is inclined from a side surface of a guiding member installation section that is a side surface of the scanner unit on a sheet feed tray side in a state in which the scanner unit is closed with respect to the body of the recording apparatus.

公开(公告)号：US20210122592A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-29

申请号：US17081359

申请日：2020-10-27

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Ryoichi MORISAWA ,  Takashi MATSUKI

IPC: B65H1/04 ,  H04N1/00

Abstract: A media supplying apparatus includes a first support portion, a second support portion, a housing portion, and a holding portion. The first support portion has a first supporting surface for supporting a paper sheet, is inclinably provided, and when inclined from a non-use state, switches to a use state. The second support portion has a second supporting surface that supports the paper sheet, and is disposed upstream of the first support portion in the use state in a supply direction of the paper sheet. The housing portion is, inclinably toward an upstream of the first supporting portion in the supply direction, provided, and retractably houses the second support portion. The holding portion holds the first support portion and the housing portion in an inclination orientation so that the first supporting surface and the second supporting surface are aligned in the supply direction.