Medium transporting device and liquid jetting device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10967657-B2
Application number	US-201916447944-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2019
Priority date	Feb 15, 2017
Publication date	Apr 6, 2021
Grant date	Apr 6, 2021

Abstract

A medium transporting device and a liquid jetting device, which can suppress the lifting of both ends of a medium in a width direction of a medium and can suppress the occurrence of wrinkling of the medium, are provided. The medium transporting device includes a gripping unit that grips a leading end region of a medium, a medium supporting unit that has a first adsorption supporting unit which adsorbs and supports a trailing end region of the medium and a second adsorption supporting unit which adsorbs a non-end region of the medium and generates an adsorption pressure less than an adsorption pressure generated by the first adsorption supporting unit, a medium position moving unit that moves a position in a medium width direction in the medium width direction, and a medium transporting unit that transports the medium. Regarding the width direction, the first adsorption supporting unit has a length, which is obtained by adding a length twice a moving distance of the medium to a medium length, and a distance from a center position in the width direction to one end in the width direction is the same as a distance from the center position in the width direction to the other end in the width direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A medium transporting device comprising:
a gripping unit that comprises a plurality of gripping members which grip a leading end region of a medium in a medium transporting direction;
a medium supporting unit that comprises a first adsorption supporting unit which adsorbs and supports a trailing end region of the medium having a length determined in advance in the medium transporting direction from the trailing end of the medium in the medium transporting direction and a second adsorption supporting unit which adsorbs and supports a non-end region, which is a region other than the leading end region and the trailing end region of the medium, the second adsorption supporting unit generating an adsorption pressure less than an adsorption pressure generated by the first adsorption supporting unit;
a medium position moving unit that moves a position of the medium in a width direction, which is a direction orthogonal to the medium transporting direction, the medium being supplied to the medium supporting unit in the width direction; and
a medium transporting unit that transports the medium supported by the medium supporting unit in the medium transporting direction, and the gripping unit and the medium supporting unit are disposed on the medium transporting unit,
wherein regarding the width direction, the first adsorption supporting unit has a length, which is obtained by adding a length twice a moving distance of the medium by the medium position moving unit to a medium length of a size allowing the first adsorption supporting unit to adsorb and support the trailing end region, and a distance from a center position in the width direction to one end in the width direction is the same as a distance from the center position in the width direction to the other end in the width direction.

2. The medium transporting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein regarding the width direction, the first adsorption supporting unit has a length, which is obtained by adding a length twice a moving distance of the medium by the medium position moving unit to a medium length of a maximum size allowing the first adsorption supporting unit to adsorb and support the trailing end region, and a distance from a center position in the width direction to one end in the width direction is the same as a distance from the center position in the width direction to the other end in the width direction.

3. The medium transporting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein positions of both ends of the first adsorption supporting unit in the width direction are disposed at positions of any of the plurality of gripping members in the width direction.

4. The medium transporting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the medium position moving unit moves the medium, of which the one end of the medium in the width direction is not gripped, to a position where the gripping unit grips the one end of the medium in the width direction in a case where the center position of the medium in the width direction is aligned with a transporting center, which is a center position of the medium supporting unit in the width direction.

5. The medium transporting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first adsorption supporting unit has a length corresponding to a plurality of types of media having different lengths in the width direction from each other.

6. The medium transporting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the medium supporting unit comprises a plurality of the first adsorption supporting units, and the plurality of the first adsorption supporting units are arranged along the medium transporting direction.

7. The medium transporting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the medium supporting unit comprises a third adsorption supporting unit that adsorbs and supports the trailing end region, regarding the width direction, the third adsorption supporting unit having a length, which is equal to or smaller than a medium length of a size allowing the third adsorption supporting unit to adsorb and support the trailing end region.

8. The medium transporting device according to claim 7 ,
wherein the third adsorption supporting unit has a length which is equal to or smaller than a medium length of a maximum size allowing the third adsorption supporting unit to adsorb and support the trailing end region.

9. The medium transporting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first adsorption supporting unit comprises a plurality of first adsorption holes,
the second adsorption supporting unit comprises a plurality of second adsorption holes, and
a total area of the plurality of first adsorption holes per unit area in the first adsorption supporting unit exceeds a total area of the plurality of second adsorption holes per unit area in the second adsorption supporting unit.

10. The medium transporting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the gripping member comprises a gripping claw and a claw stand, and has a structure of gripping the leading end region of the medium between the gripping claw and the claw stand, and
at least one of the gripping claws respectively included in the plurality of gripping members is a wide claw having a length in the width direction, which is larger than the other gripping claws.

11. The medium transporting device according to claim 10 ,
wherein in the wide claw, a gripping region, which grips the medium between the claw stand and the wide claw, has a projecting shape with respect to a non-gripping region, which does not grip the medium between the claw stand and the wide claw.

12. The medium transporting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the medium supporting unit is a transport drum that has a cylindrical shape, and rotates about a center axis of the cylindrical shape as a rotation axis to transport the medium along an outer circumferential surface.

13. The medium transporting device according to claim 12 ,
wherein the transport drum comprises a main body portion and an adsorption sheet, and
the first adsorption supporting unit and the second adsorption supporting unit are formed in the adsorption sheet, and the adsorption sheet is fixed by being wrapped around the main body portion.

14. A liquid jetting device comprising:
a liquid jetting head that comprises a plurality of jetting elements; and
a medium transporting device that transports a medium to which a liquid is jetted from the liquid jetting head,
wherein the medium transporting device comprises
a gripping unit that comprises a plurality of gripping members which grip a leading end region of a medium in a medium transporting direction,
a medium supporting unit that comprises a first adsorption supporting unit which adsorbs and supports a trailing end region of the medium having a length determined in advance in the medium transporting direction from the trailing end of the medium in the medium transporting direction and a second adsorption supporting unit which adsorbs and supports a non-end region, which is a region other than the leading end region and the trailing end region of the medium, the second adsorption supporting unit generating an adsorption pressure less than an adsorption pressure generated by the first adsorption supporting unit,
a medium position moving unit that moves a position of the medium in a width direction, which is a direction orthogonal to the medium transporting direction, the medium being supplied to the medium supporting unit, in the width direction, and
a medium transporting unit that transports the medium supported by the medium supporting unit in the medium transporting direction, and the gripping unit and the medium

Assignees

• Fujifilm Corp

Inventors

• Takada Kensuke

Classifications

• B65H5/12 Primary

  Revolving grippers, e.g. mounted on arms, frames or cylinders · CPC title

• B41J13/22

  Clamps or grippers · CPC title

• B65H2406/362

  adjusting or controlling distribution of vacuum transversally to the transport direction, e.g. according to the width of material · CPC title

• B65H2405/57

  Details of the gripping parts · CPC title

• B41F21/104

  Gripper details (B41F21/102 takes precedence) · CPC title