US 12,330,413 B2
Transport device and printing device
Atsushi Mukaida, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/558,733.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-214116 (JP), filed on Dec. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0194100 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 5/38 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B65H 5/36 (2006.01); B65H 29/52 (2006.01); B65H 29/60 (2006.01); B65H 43/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/0045 (2013.01) [B65H 29/60 (2013.01); B65H 43/00 (2013.01); B65H 2511/12 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
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1. A transport device comprising:
a device main body provided with a transport path in which a descending path, through which a medium is transported downward in a device height direction, and an ascending path, through which the medium is transported upward in the device height direction, overlap in the device height direction;
an upper guide portion configured to be moved outward with respect to the device main body and positioned above the descending path and the ascending path in the device height direction in a state in which the upper guide portion is stored in the device main body; and
a lower guide portion provided in the device main body, positioned below the upper guide portion in the device height direction, and forming the descending path and the ascending path together with the upper guide portion, wherein
the upper guide portion forms an upper surface of the descending path,
the lower guide portion forms a lower surface of the descending path,
the lower guide portion includes a first path forming member forming the descending path and a second path forming member disposed downstream of the first path forming member in a transport direction of the medium and forming the ascending path,
the first path forming member is configured to be moved to a first position and a second position, forms the descending path and at least partially overlaps a moving area of the upper guide portion in the device height direction at the first position, and does not overlap the moving area in the device height direction at the second position, and
the lower guide portion is provided in the device main body so as to not be moveable outward with respect to the device main body.