US 12,240,226 B2
Recording device
Keita Hanaoka, Matsumoto (JP); and Yusuke Higuchi, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/055,021.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-185442 (JP), filed on Nov. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0150278 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B65H 29/58 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/0045 (2013.01) [B65H 29/58 (2013.01); B65H 2404/1416 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording device comprising:
a recording unit that performs recording on a medium;
a transport path through which the medium is transported toward the recording unit;
a transport roller pair having a first roller and a second roller which are provided in the transport path, pinching the medium by the first roller and the second roller at a pinching position, and transporting the medium toward the recording unit in a transport direction;
a gate portion that has a contact surface and is configured to switch between an advance state in which the contact surface is located at a contact position located upstream of the pinching position in the transport direction in the transport path and comes into contact with a tip of the medium, and a retreat state in which the contact surface retreats from the contact position; and
a guide portion that guides the tip of the transported medium to the contact surface located at the contact position, the guide portion protruding further in a radial direction of the first roller than does an outer periphery of the first roller when viewed in a direction along a rotary shaft of the first roller,
wherein the guide portion is separate from the gate portion and defines the at least a portion of the transport path.