US 11,806,994 B2
Printing device including discharge tray positioned downstream of and below cutter unit
Hiroaki Takahashi, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/960,388.
Application 17/960,388 is a division of application No. 17/216,778, filed on Mar. 30, 2021, granted, now 11,485,152.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-061159 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0022097 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 13/10 (2006.01); B41J 11/66 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/663 (2013.01) [B41J 13/106 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing device comprising:
a pair of conveyer rollers configured to nip a printing medium at a nipping position and convey the printing medium in a conveying direction;
a cutter unit positioned downstream of the pair of conveyer rollers in the conveying direction and configured to cut the printing medium conveyed by the pair of conveyer rollers;
a discharge tray positioned downstream of the cutter unit in the conveying direction and below the cutter unit, the discharge tray comprising a mounting surface; and
a controller configured to perform:
(a) cutting the printing medium into a first printing medium and a second printing medium by the cutter unit, and discharging the first printing medium divided out from the printing medium onto the mounting surface of the discharge tray; and
(b) conveying the second printing medium by the pair of conveyer rollers toward the discharge tray without passing through the cutter unit, and discharging the second printing medium onto the discharge tray such that the second printing medium is on top of the first printing medium mounted on the mounting surface of the discharge tray,
wherein the discharge tray is at such a position that a distance in a gravitational direction between the nipping position and the mounting surface of the discharge tray is greater than a deflection amount of the second printing medium by which the second printing medium nipped by the pair of conveyer rollers flexes from the pair of conveyer rollers in the gravitational direction.