US 12,138,907 B2
Recording device including a recording-time transport path and reversing path
Yuji Misawa, Matsumoto (JP); and Toshihiro Imae, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/332,569.
Application 18/332,569 is a continuation of application No. 17/815,496, filed on Jul. 27, 2022, granted, now 11,707,936.
Application 17/815,496 is a continuation of application No. 17/160,800, filed on Jan. 28, 2021, granted, now 11,413,887, issued on Aug. 16, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-014857 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0331003 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 3/60 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/10 (2006.01); B41J 25/24 (2006.01); B41J 25/308 (2006.01); B41J 2/01 (2006.01); B41J 2/165 (2006.01); B41J 2/17 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/005 (2013.01) [B41J 2/1752 (2013.01); B41J 3/60 (2013.01); B41J 11/0055 (2013.01); B41J 13/00 (2013.01); B41J 13/0009 (2013.01); B41J 13/103 (2013.01); B41J 25/24 (2013.01); B41J 25/308 (2013.01); B41J 2/01 (2013.01); B41J 2/16508 (2013.01); B41J 2/16526 (2013.01); B41J 2/16585 (2013.01); B41J 2/1721 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording device comprising:
a recording head configured to perform recording on a medium by discharging a liquid to the medium;
at least one medium storage configured to store the medium to be recorded, the medium storage positioned vertically below the recording head;
an effluent storage that holds an effluent discharged from the recording head, the effluent storage being disposed between the recording head and the medium storage in the vertical direction;
a recording-time transport path that passes through a position which faces the recording head;
a supply path comprising a first curved supply path curved so as to be convex upward and transporting the medium fed out of the medium storage in a direction including a component in a direction opposite to a direction in which the medium is fed out of the medium storage via the first curved supply path; and
a reversing path comprising a second curved path curved so as to be convex downward and transporting the recorded medium into a direction including a vertically upward component via second curved path from a direction including a vertically downward component; wherein
the reversing path joins the recording-time transport path,
the supply path joins the reversing path which joins the recording-time transport path, and
the effluent storage and a lower end of the second curve path in the vertical direction do not overlap when viewed horizontally.