Printing apparatus

• US 10,059,128 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2017
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Kenichi, Shimada, Yoshitaka, Kawafune, Toyonori
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Huan
• Application Number:
  US15/496,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20170313103A1
• Time in Patent Office: 490 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/58 Supply holders for sheets or fan-folded webs, e.g. shelves, tables, scrolls, pile holders
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 29/17 Cleaning arrangements

Abstract

A printing apparatus includes a recording head that performs printing on a printing surface of a medium, a transport portion that transports the medium in a transport direction, a medium support portion that is disposed on an upstream side in the transport direction with respect to the recording head and supports the medium, a removal portion that is disposed on the upstream side in the transport direction with respect to the recording head, and a fixing portion to which the removal portion is fixed, in which the removal portion includes a removal member that has a flexible property and comes into contact with the printing surface, and an elastic member that holds the removal member between itself and the medium support portion, and that presses the removal member.

Claims

1. A printing apparatus comprising:

a printing portion that performs printing on a printing surface of a medium;

a transport portion that transports the medium in a transport direction;

a medium support portion that is disposed on an upstream side in the transport direction with respect to the printing portion and supports the medium;

a removal portion that is disposed on the upstream side in the transport direction with respect to the printing portion; and

a fixing portion to which the removal portion is fixed,

wherein the removal portion includes

a removal member that has a flexible property and comes into contact with the printing surface, and

an elastic member that holds the removal member between itself and the medium support portion, and that presses the removal member,

wherein a length of the elastic member in a width direction, which is orthogonal to the transport direction, is shorter than a length of the removal member in the width direction, and

wherein, among portions of the elastic member, an end portion in the width direction is disposed on an inner side of an end portion in the width direction among portions of the removal member.

2. The printing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the removal member is slack between a section fixed to the fixing portion, and a section pressed by the elastic member.

3. The printing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the removal portion is disposed so as to, among portions of the medium, come into contact with an end portion in the width direction, which is orthogonal to the transport direction.

4. The printing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the removal portion is divided into a plurality along a direction that intersects the transport direction.

5. The printing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the removal member is an aggregate of fibers.

6. The printing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the removal portion is attached to the fixing portion in a detachable manner.

7. A printing apparatus comprising:

a printing portion that performs printing on a printing surface of a medium;

a transport portion that transports the medium in a transport direction;

a medium support portion that is disposed on an upstream side in the transport direction with respect to the printing portion and supports the medium;

a removal portion that is disposed on the upstream side in the transport direction with respect to the printing portion; and

a fixing portion to which the removal portion is fixed,

wherein the removal portion includes

a removal member that has a flexible property and comes into contact with the printing surface, and

an elastic member that holds the removal member between itself and the medium support portion, and that presses the removal member,

wherein the removal member and the elastic member are disposed so that, among portions of the removal member, a facing portion with the medium protrudes more than a facing portion with the medium among portions of the elastic member.

8. A printing apparatus comprising:

a printing portion that performs printing on a printing surface of a medium;

a transport portion that transports the medium in a transport direction;

a medium support portion that is disposed on an upstream side in the transport direction with respect to the printing portion and supports the medium;

a removal portion that is disposed on the upstream side in the transport direction with respect to the printing portion; and

a fixing portion to which the removal portion is fixed,

wherein the removal portion includes

a removal member that has a flexible property and comes into contact with the printing surface, and

an elastic member that holds the removal member between itself and the medium support portion, and that presses the removal member,

wherein, in the removal member, one end portion and another end portion are fixed to the fixing portion, and a section which is curved between the one end portion and the other end portion comes into contact with the printing surface.