US 12,252,365 B2
Medium placement device
Moe Takeuchi, Shiojiri (JP); Tsutomu Ozaki, Matsumoto (JP); Shun Ito, Matsumoto (JP); and Keiichi Yato, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/069,410.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-209016 (JP), filed on Dec. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0202788 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 29/52 (2006.01); B65H 31/20 (2006.01); B65H 31/22 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 29/52 (2013.01) [B65H 31/20 (2013.01); B65H 31/22 (2013.01); B65H 2405/11 (2013.01); B65H 2405/1111 (2013.01); B65H 2405/11152 (2013.01); B65H 2405/1118 (2013.01); B65H 2405/312 (2013.01); B65H 2701/11312 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medium placement device configured to stack a plurality of sheets of a medium discharged from a discharge unit of a processing device, the medium placement device comprising
a plurality of support units provided in a width direction intersecting with a discharge direction of the medium discharged from the discharge unit, the plurality of support units being configured to support the medium at a support surface from below in a gravitational direction, wherein
as the plurality of support units, a first support unit and a second support unit are provided in an alternating manner in the width direction, the second support unit being arranged at a position lower than the first support unit in the gravitational direction when viewed in the width direction,
the first support unit is provided with a bridging member configured to couple a lower side of the discharge unit in the gravitational direction and the support surface of the first support unit, and
the plurality of support units and the bridging member extend in the discharge direction, and are inclined downward in the gravitational direction from upstream to downstream in the discharge direction.