Recording device and method for controlling recording device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11485156-B2
Application number	US-202117348744-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 15, 2021
Priority date	Jun 18, 2020
Publication date	Nov 1, 2022
Grant date	Nov 1, 2022

Abstract

A recording device includes a recording head, a transport roller set, and a controller that controls a driving source that drives a transport driving roller. The controller judges whether a rear end that is an upstream end of a medium in a transport direction crosses a kicking region set in a range present downstream of a nipping position of the transport roller set in a transport direction. When the controller judges that the rear end does not cross the kicking region, the controller adjusts a feeding amount for at least one of a plurality of transport operations to be performed until the rear end reaches the kicking region in such a manner that the rear end of the medium crosses the kicking region.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A recording device comprising:
a recording head that performs recording on a recording medium;
a transport roller set including a transport driving roller and a transport driven roller that transport the recording medium toward the recording head in a transport direction; and
a controller that controls a driving source that drives the transport driving roller, wherein
the controller judges whether a rear end that is an upstream end of the recording medium in the transport direction crosses a kicking region set in a range present downstream of a nipping position of the transport roller set in the transport direction and shorter than an amount of feeding of the recording medium by the transport roller set, and
when the controller judges that the rear end does not cross the kicking region, the controller adjusts the feeding amount for at least one of a plurality of transport operations to be performed until the rear end of the recording medium reaches the kicking region in such a manner that the rear end of the recording medium crosses the kicking region.

2. The recording device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a medium detector that detects an end of the recording medium at a position upstream of the transport roller set in the transport direction, wherein
after the rear end of the recording medium is detected by the medium detector, the controller judges whether the rear end crosses the kicking region.

3. The recording device according to claim 1 , wherein
the driving source is a transport motor that drives the transport driving motor, and
the controller detects a change in a current of the transport motor or a change in a voltage of the transport motor at a time of passage of the rear end of the medium through the transport roller set and sets the nipping position based on a result of detecting the change.

4. The recording device according to claim 3 , further comprising:
an encoder that detects a rotational amount of the transport driving roller; and
a nonvolatile memory, wherein
the controller measures, based on a detection pulse signal output by the encoder, a distance from a detection position where a medium detector detected the rear end of the recording medium to a position where the controller detected a change in the current of the transport motor or a change in the voltage of the transport motor, and causes the distance to be stored as a measurement distance in the nonvolatile memory, and
the controller adjusts the feeding amount based on the measurement distance and a remaining feeding amount of a transport operation that causes the rear end to pass through the detection position where the medium detector detected the rear end, the remaining feeding amount being a distance from the detection position to the rear end.

5. The recording device according to claim 4 , wherein
the nonvolatile memory stores the measurement distance measured in manufacturing of the recording device.

6. The recording device according to claim 1 , wherein
when a distance between a detection position of a medium detector and the nipping position of the transport roller set is LA, the feeding amount for one transport operation is a, a remaining feeding amount of a transport operation in which the rear end of the recording medium is detected by the medium detector and that is a distance from a detection position where the medium detector has detected the rear end of the recording medium to the rear end of the recording medium is b, and a remaining distance from the rear end of the recording medium transported by the remaining feeding amount b to the nipping position is c=LA−b, the controller judges the feeding amount to be adjusted, based on a remainder of c/a that indicates a remaining distance after a number n of transport operations indicated by a quotient of c/a are performed.

7. The recording device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller adjusts the feeding amount to an amount shorter than the feeding amount.

8. The recording device according to claim 1 , wherein
the recording medium is dedicated paper.

9. The recording device according to claim 1 , wherein
when a number of transport operations from a transport operation to be performed immediately after a transport operation that causes the rear end of the recording medium to pass through a detection position of a medium detector to a transport operation that causes the rear end of the recording medium to be stopped in the kicking region is n that is a natural number of 2 or greater, and the largest natural number not larger than n/2 is p, the controller adjusts the feeding amount for at least one of first to p-th transport operations among the number n of transport operations.

10. The recording device according to claim 1 , wherein
when a number of transport operations from a transport operation to be performed immediately after a transport operation that causes the rear end of the recording medium to pass through a detection position of a medium detector to a transport operation that causes the rear end of the recording medium to be stopped in the kicking region is n that is a natural number of 2 or greater, and the smallest natural number not smaller than n/2 is q, the controller adjusts the feeding amount for at least one of q-th and subsequent transport operations among the number n of transport operations.

11. The recording device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller distributes an adjustment amount for feeding amounts that is necessary to cause the rear end of the recording medium to cross the kicking region to a plurality of transport operations among a number n of transport operations from a transport operation to be performed immediately after a transport operation that causes the rear end of the recording medium to pass through a detection position of a medium detector to a transport operation that causes the rear end of the recording medium to be stopped in the kicking region, where n is a natural number of 2 or greater.

12. The recording device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller changes a set length of the kicking region in the transport direction based on a thickness of the recording medium to be subjected to recording by the recording head.

13. The recording device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller has a first recording mode in which recording is performed at a first recording resolution and a second recording mode in which recording is performed at a second recording resolution higher than the first recording resolution, and
lengths of the kicking region in the transport direction are set for the first and second recording modes in such a manner that the set length of the kicking region in the transport direction in the first recording mode is different from the set length of the kicking region in the transport direction in the second recording mode.

14. The recording device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller adjusts, based on an adjustment amount for the feeding amount, a recording region for the recording medium in the transport direction in a recording operation performed on the recording medium by the recording head immediately after an operation of transporting the recording medium by the adjusted feeding amount.

15. A method for controlling a recording device including a recording head that performs recording on a recording medium, a transport roller set including a transport driving roller and a transport driven roller that transport the recording medium toward the recording head in a transport direction, a medium detector that detects an end of

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Yoshino Satoshi
• Shinagawa Hiroki

Classifications

• B41J13/0027

  in the printing section of automatic paper handling systems · CPC title

• B65H2801/06

  Office-type machines, e.g. photocopiers · CPC title

• B65H7/02

  by feelers or detectors · CPC title

• B65H2511/514

  Particular portion of element · CPC title

• B65H5/062 Primary

  between rollers or balls · CPC title