US 12,214,585 B2
Recording device
Atsushi Mukaida, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/549,254.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-206547 (JP), filed on Dec. 14, 2020; and application No. 2021-128294 (JP), filed on Aug. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0184977 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/01 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 11/04 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/02 (2006.01); B41J 13/26 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 13/02 (2013.01) [B41J 11/0045 (2013.01); B41J 11/04 (2013.01); B41J 13/0018 (2013.01); B41J 13/0027 (2013.01); B41J 13/0045 (2013.01); B41J 13/009 (2013.01); B41J 13/26 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording device comprising:
a pair of transport rollers for transporting a medium;
a rotating body provided downstream of the pair of transport rollers in a transport path of the medium and configured to switch between a first state in which a tip portion of the medium being nipped by the pair of transport rollers is passed and a second state in which the tip portion of the medium being nipped by the pair of transport rollers is not passed; and
a recording portion provided downstream of the rotating body in the transport path and performing recording on the medium by discharging a liquid, wherein
the pair of transport rollers includes a first toothed roller having a plurality of convex portions configured to make point contact with the medium on an outer peripheral portion and nipping the medium by the plurality of the convex portions and a second driving roller that drives the first toothed roller, and
when the transport path of the medium is divided into three regions in a width direction corresponding to a length of a rotating shaft that supports the second driving roller, the three regions being a central region of the rotating shaft, a first side region, and a second side region, the pair of transport rollers is arranged only in the central region such that no other transport rollers are arranged in the first side region and the second side region that are on both sides of the central region.