US 12,030,306 B2
Accommodating device and recording device
Nobuhiko Hamada, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/304,036.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-104590 (JP), filed on Jun. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0394538 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. B41J 13/10 (2006.01); B65H 16/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 13/106 (2013.01) [B65H 16/005 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An accommodating device provided with a receiving member having flexibility, the accommodating device being configured to receive in the receiving member a medium having a sheet shape and discharged from a discharge unit in a discharge direction,
the receiving member including a contact portion with which the medium comes into contact, and
in a width direction intersecting the discharge direction, at least one end portion of the contact portion being positioned inward of at least one end portion of the medium reaching the contact portion,
wherein an end portion of the receiving member in the width direction and downstream of the contact portion in the discharge direction is positioned outward of an end portion of the medium in the width direction.