US 11,718,494 B2
Printing apparatus
Tsutomu Obata, Tokyo (JP); Yoshiaki Suzuki, Chiba (JP); Kenji Shimamura, Saitama (JP); Ryoya Shinjo, Kanagawa (JP); and Ryosuke Araki, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/488,477.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-166106 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0097997 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 31/30 (2006.01); B41J 11/70 (2006.01); B65H 35/04 (2006.01); B65H 29/12 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 31/30 (2013.01) [B41J 11/70 (2013.01); B65H 29/12 (2013.01); B65H 35/04 (2013.01); G03G 21/16 (2013.01); B65H 2404/722 (2013.01); B65H 2405/40 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a stacking portion arranged above a printing unit configured to perform printing, a print medium printed by the printing unit being stacked on the stacking portion;
a discharge unit configured to discharge the print medium printed by the printing unit to the stacking portion;
a passage forming portion arranged facing the stacking portion, configured to form a discharge passage of the print medium together with the stacking portion, and including:
an opening/closing portion which is displaceable between a closed position for forming the discharge passage and an open position for opening access to the stacking portion; and
a fixed portion, which is not displaceable between the closed position and the open position, arranged on a downstream side of the opening/closing portion in the conveying direction; and
an outlet port located at a downstream end of the stacking portion and a downstream end of the passage forming portion in a conveying direction of the print medium.