US 12,447,756 B2
Printing apparatus
Yuichi Washio, Shiojiri (JP); Kazutoshi Fujisawa, Okaya (JP); and Satoru Katagami, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/182,902.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-039010 (JP), filed on Mar. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0286293 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 29/02 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/0015 (2013.01) [B41J 11/007 (2013.01); B41J 29/02 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus, comprising:
a transport unit configured to transport a medium in a transport direction;
a printing unit configured to perform printing on the medium by discharging liquid onto the medium transported by the transport unit; and
a drying unit configured to dry the medium after printing on which printing was performed by the printing unit, wherein
the drying unit includes:
a housing,
a first contact heating unit provided inside the housing,
a first support portion provided inside the housing and provided at one of positions sandwiching the first contact heating unit in the transport direction, and
a second support portion provided inside the housing and provided at another of the positions sandwiching the first contact heating unit in the transport direction,
the first support portion and the second support portion are configured to support the first contact heating unit,
the first support portion includes a first guide portion provided at a position facing the first contact heating unit,
the second support portion includes a second guide portion provided at a position facing the first contact heating unit,
the first contact heating unit includes:
a first contact heating surface facing a back surface of the medium after printing and configured to come into contact with the back surface of the medium after printing, the back surface of the medium after printing being opposite to a printing surface of the medium after printing,
a first engagement portion configured to engage with the first guide portion, and
a second engagement portion configured to engage with the second guide portion, and
the first contact heating unit is configured to rotate around an axis orientated along the transport direction to change a posture from a first posture to a second posture, in a state where the first engagement portion engages with the first guide portion and the second engagement portion engages with the second guide portion, by a movement from a first position for drying the medium to a second position that is different from the first position,
wherein a part of the first contact heating unit is deployed to an outside of the housing when the first contact heating unit is in the second position.