US 12,330,433 B2
Printing apparatus
Keisuke Sasaki, Matsumoto (JP); Haruki Miyasaka, Matsumoto (JP); and Narihiro Oki, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/065,265.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-204518 (JP), filed on Dec. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0191811 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 29/13 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 29/13 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17523 (2013.01); B41J 29/38 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
an automatic opening mechanism for an opening/closing cover, which is disposed along a first direction;
a carriage that has a print head configured to perform printing on a medium and that moves in a direction intersecting a transport direction of the medium;
a disk scale provided on a shaft of a transport roller that transports a printed medium in a transport direction in a height direction, the automatic opening mechanism overlapping the disk scale; and
a discharge portion that is exposed in a state in which the opening/closing cover is opened and that discharges the printed medium, wherein
the automatic opening mechanism includes a lever for releasing maintenance of a closed state of the opening/closing cover by movement of the carriage,
the automatic opening mechanism overlaps a discharge opening region of the discharge portion in a height direction,
the lever is disposed along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and
when the carriage comes to contact with the lever and causes the lever to rotate, the maintenance of the closed state of the opening/closing cover is released due to the displacement of the lever.