US 12,434,927 B2
Cassette and printing apparatus
Yosuke Kitagawa, Kanagawa (JP); Hideaki Nagahara, Kanagawa (JP); Tetsuji Kurata, Kanagawa (JP); Yasushi Ishida, Tokyo (JP); and Toshiya Matsumoto, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/862,314.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-134275 (JP), filed on Aug. 19, 2021; and application No. 2022-090385 (JP), filed on Jun. 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0057624 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 1/26 (2006.01); B65H 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 1/266 (2013.01) [B65H 1/04 (2013.01); B65H 2405/112 (2013.01); B65H 2405/115 (2013.01); B65H 2405/12 (2013.01); B65H 2551/21 (2013.01); B65H 2801/03 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cassette comprising:
a housing portion configured to have a placement face on which sheets are placed and to house sheets;
a standing wall configured to constitute a portion of the housing portion, and to regulate sheets on a back end side in a conveyance direction of sheets to be conveyed from the placement face to a printing apparatus;
a protrusion provided on the standing wall and configured to protrude toward the placement face at a position above a predetermined position, which is at a height of sheets that can be stacked on the placement face, wherein the protrusion is located at a position below a standing wall upper portion, which is an upper portion of the standing wall that can be gripped;
a cassette cover, including a contact portion that can be in contact with the protrusion from above, configured to be attached to the housing portion and to prevent housed sheets from being exposed, and
a recess configured to be formed in the cassette cover and to function as a gripping portion of the cassette along with the standing wall upper portion,
wherein an outer face of the standing wall constitutes a portion of an exterior of the printing apparatus, in a state in which the cassette is attached to the printing apparatus;
wherein an end portion of the cassette cover on a standing wall side is arranged at a position closer to an inner face of the standing wall than the outer face, with the inner face being opposite to the outer face, and
wherein the back end side of the sheets is placed under the protrusion.