US 12,030,305 B2
Recording apparatus
Keisuke Sasaki, Matsumoto (JP); Shinji Kanemaru, Matsumoto (JP); and Katsumi Yamada, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/182,262.
Application 18/182,262 is a division of application No. 17/093,108, filed on Nov. 9, 2020, granted, now 11,613,135.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-203776 (JP), filed on Nov. 11, 2019; and application No. 2020-095923 (JP), filed on Jun. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0226831 A1, Jul. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/04 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/04 (2013.01) [B65H 5/062 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording apparatus comprising:
a recording head that performs recording;
a transport roller that transports a medium towards an opposing position that opposes the recording head;
an inversion path provided on a side opposite the recording head with respect to the transport roller, the inversion path inverting the medium;
a feed roller that feeds out a set medium; and
an auxiliary roller provided between the inversion path and the transport roller, the auxiliary roller assisting the transportation of the medium, wherein
when the apparatus is seen from a side of the apparatus, the auxiliary roller, in a height direction of the apparatus, overlaps a center position of the inversion path in the height direction,
the transport roller transports the medium, which is fed out by the feed roller, towards the opposing position,
the auxiliary roller is provided between the feed roller and the transport roller, and
when the apparatus is seen from the side of the apparatus, the auxiliary roller overlaps the feed roller in the height direction.