US 12,070,938 B2
Printing device configured to separate sheet into first sheet and second sheet, discharge first sheet, and reuse second sheet
Mamoru Namba, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Nov. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/984,455.
Application 17/984,455 is a continuation of application No. 17/216,806, filed on Mar. 30, 2021, granted, now 11,504,986.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-064037 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0065602 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/66 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/663 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
an image recording unit configured to record an image on a sheet, the sheet being one of a stack of sheets, the sheet being conveyed to the image recording unit;
a cutting unit configured to cut the sheet; and
an image reading unit comprising a glass plate having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end in a direction crossing an up-down direction, the image reading unit configured to read an image from an original document, where the glass plate is configured to receive the original document manually placed thereon,
wherein the image recording unit and the cutting unit are disposed below the image reading unit,
wherein the image recording unit and the cutting unit are arranged such that a virtual plane orthogonal to the up-down direction passes through both the image recording unit and the cutting unit; and
wherein at least part of the image recording unit and at least part of the cutting unit are located between the first end of the glass plate and the second end of the glass plate in the direction.