US 12,280,592 B2
Printing device
Ryohei Kinoshita, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/170,658.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-024173 (JP), filed on Feb. 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0264493 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/70 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/70 (2013.01) [G03G 15/6523 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing device comprising:
a second blade;
a first blade portion including a first blade and configured to cut a print medium by moving from a standby position at which the first blade is away from the second blade, via an overlap start position at which the first blade starts overlapping the second blade on a side of the second blade in a first direction, to a cutting position;
a blade guide located in the first direction relative to the second blade and configured to guide movement of the first blade with the first blade between the blade guide and the second blade when the first blade portion moves from the overlap start position to the cutting position; and
a warping prevention portion configured to press the first blade in a second direction opposite to the first direction when the first blade portion moves from the overlap start position to the cutting position, to prevent the first blade from warping into a convex shape in the first direction or reduce such warping.