US 12,011,918 B2
Recording apparatus
Hiroshi Shiohara, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/528,979.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-193325 (JP), filed on Nov. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0161579 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 29/02 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 15/044 (2013.01) [B41J 29/02 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording apparatus, comprising:
an apparatus body that includes a recording unit that performs recording on a medium;
a medium cassette configured to contain the medium and configured to slide in a first direction and a second direction, the first direction being a direction in which the medium cassette is drawn out from the apparatus body, the second direction being an opposite of the first direction and being a direction in which the medium cassette is housed into the apparatus body; and
a support column portion extending in a height direction of the apparatus body, wherein
the apparatus body includes a frame forming a plane that is along the lateral face of the apparatus body at the second direction side,
the medium cassette has, at an end in the second direction, a protruding portion that protrudes in the second direction,
the support column portion is located at an end of the frame in an apparatus width direction, the apparatus width direction being a direction intersecting with the slide directions of the medium cassette, and
an accommodating portion configured to accommodate the protruding portion is formed in the support column portion.