IP Library Granted Patent US 12,017,449
Granted Patent B2
US 12,017,449 · App. 17/933,009 · Granted Jun 25, 2024

Medium supplying device and recording device

Inventors: Kazutoshi Kashiwabara (Shiojiri, JP); Junki Akama (Nagano, JP)
Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
B41J15/046B65H20/06B65H23/182
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Patent No.
US 12,017,449
App. No.
17/933,009
Granted
Jun 25, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A medium supplying device includes a housing part configured to house a rolled medium obtained by winding a sheet, a pair of rollers disposed at a predetermined interval in the housing part, and a supplying belt with an endless annular shape provided around the pair of rollers and configured to rotate along with rotation of the pair of rollers. An outer peripheral surface of the rolled medium is supported with the supplying belt, and the supplying belt is driven into rotation to rotate the rolled medium to supply the sheet.

Claims (26)

1. A medium supplying device comprising:

a housing part configured to house a rolled medium obtained by winding a sheet;

a pair of rollers disposed at a predetermined interval in the housing part; and

a supplying belt with an endless annular shape provided around the pair of rollers and configured to rotate along with rotation of the pair of rollers, wherein

an outer peripheral surface of the rolled medium is supported with the supplying belt,

the supplying belt is driven into rotation to rotate the rolled medium to supply the sheet, and

the pair of rollers is configured to be displaced to a first position and a second position higher than the first position.

2. The medium supplying device according to claim 1 , wherein

the rolled medium is supported at a region between the pair of rollers in the supplying belt; and

the rolled medium is not supported at positions of the pair of rollers in the supplying belt.

3. The medium supplying device according to claim 1 , comprising a contact member in the housing part, the contact member being configured to make contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rolled medium from a position opposite to a position where the outer peripheral surface of the rolled medium is supported by the supplying belt.

4. The medium supplying device according to claim 3 , wherein the contact member makes contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rolled medium by being displaced following a change of an outer diameter of the rolled medium.

5. The medium supplying device according to claim 1 , comprising a tension roller configured to apply a tensile force to the supplying belt in a region opposite to a region where the outer peripheral surface of the rolled medium is supported of opposite two regions disposed between the pair of rollers in the supplying belt.

6. The medium supplying device according to claim 5 , wherein the supplying belt is driven into rotation when the tension roller is driven into rotation.

7. The medium supplying device according to claim 1 , wherein a distance between the pair of rollers at the second position is smaller than a distance between the pair of rollers at the first position.

8. The medium supplying device according to claim 1 , wherein

at the first position, the outer peripheral surface of the rolled medium is supported at a region between the pair of rollers in the supplying belt; and

at the second position, the outer peripheral surface of the rolled medium is supported at positions of the pair of rollers and the region between the pair of rollers in the supplying belt.

9. The medium supplying device according to claim 1 , wherein displacement from the first position to the second position is stepwise displacement.

10. The medium supplying device according to claim 1 , comprising a contact member in the housing part, the contact member being configured to make contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rolled medium from a position opposite to a position where the outer peripheral surface of the rolled medium is supported by the supplying belt, wherein

the contact member makes contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rolled medium at a constant position regardless of a change of an outer diameter of the rolled medium.

11. The medium supplying device according to claim 1 , comprising a roller configured to make contact with, from above, the sheet withdrawn from the rolled medium housed in the housing part, wherein

an angle between a horizontal plane and a straight line connecting a position where the sheet is peeled from the rolled medium and a position where the roller makes contact with the sheet is constant regardless of a change of an outer diameter of the rolled medium.

12. A recording device comprising:

the medium supplying device according to claim 1 ; and

a recording part configured to perform recording on a sheet supplied from the medium supplying device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 29, 2022
From: KASHIWABARA, KAZUTOSHI; AKAMA, JUNKI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061256/0376 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-151844 · Sep 17, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230091312A1 · Mar 23, 2023