US 12,220,909 B2
Printing apparatus
Kohei Fukui, Tokyo (JP); Kota Uchida, Kanagawa (JP); Yoshiaki Suzuki, Chiba (JP); Takakazu Ohashi, Kanagawa (JP); and Kengo Nieda, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/108,415.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-027011 (JP), filed on Feb. 24, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0264495 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 13/03 (2006.01); B41J 2/01 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 11/02 (2006.01); B41J 11/06 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 13/03 (2013.01) [B41J 2/01 (2013.01); B41J 11/0005 (2013.01); B41J 11/0045 (2013.01); B41J 11/005 (2013.01); B41J 11/02 (2013.01); B41J 11/06 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium in a conveyance direction;
a printing unit configured to print an image on the print medium conveyed by the conveyance unit;
a platen section facing the printing unit and configured to support, from a lower side, the print medium conveyed by the conveyance unit;
a regulation unit arranged on a downstream side of the printing unit in the conveyance direction and configured to regulate a height position of the print medium from above the print medium; and
a guide section arranged on a downstream side of the platen section in the conveyance direction and configured to guide the conveyance of the print medium,
wherein the guide section includes:
a first declined section declined, from the platen section to further downstream in the conveyance direction, in a direction of separating from a support height of the print medium in the platen section;
a second declined section arranged on a downstream side of the first declined section in the conveyance direction and declined, to further downstream in the conveyance direction, in the direction of separating from the support height; and
an inclined section inclined, from the second declined section to further downstream in the conveyance direction, in a direction of approaching the support height,
a declination of the second declined section is more moderate than that of the first declined section, and
the regulation unit faces the guide section.