US 12,441,128 B2
Printing apparatus
Hiroaki Takahashi, Nagoya (JP); Yasuo Nishikawa, Nagoya (JP); Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Tajimi (JP); and Kosuke Inuzuka, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Aug. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/450,809.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-134528 (JP), filed on Aug. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0066896 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. B41J 11/70 (2006.01); B41J 11/66 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/036 (2006.01); B41J 13/08 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 13/08 (2013.01) [B41J 11/66 (2013.01); B41J 11/70 (2013.01); B41J 13/0027 (2013.01); B41J 13/0045 (2013.01); B41J 13/036 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a container configured to accommodate a plurality of sheets of print media;
a conveyor having a first conveying route and configured to convey each sheet of the print media taken out from the container in a conveying direction along the first conveying route;
a printing unit configured to print an image on each sheet of the print media which is being conveyed in the first conveying route; and
a dividing unit configured to perform a dividing processing with respect to each sheet of the print media which is being conveyed in the first conveying route,
wherein the conveyor is provided with a second conveying route which is branched from the first conveying route at a branching part and in which each sheet of the print media having the image printed thereon by the printing unit is conveyed,
the printing unit and the dividing unit are positioned above the container, and
the dividing unit and the branching part are positioned on an upstream side in the conveying direction with respect to the printing unit.