Recording apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11731436-B2
Application number	US-202117480604-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 21, 2021
Priority date	Sep 30, 2020
Publication date	Aug 22, 2023
Grant date	Aug 22, 2023

Abstract

A recording apparatus includes a recording portion configured to record an image on a recording medium; a housing having an ejection opening on the side of the housing, the recording medium recorded with the image being ejected from the ejection opening in the ejection direction; and a receiver that receives the recording medium ejected from the ejection opening. The recording apparatus further includes a guide provided inside the ejection opening of the housing, and the receiver has an end on an upstream side of the receiver with respect to the ejection direction such that the end is held at a position overlapping with the guide.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A recording apparatus, comprising:
a recording portion configured to record an image on a recording medium;
a housing having an ejection opening on a side of the housing, the recording medium recorded with the image being ejected from the ejection opening in an ejection direction;
a first guide provided inside the ejection opening of the housing and configured to guide the recording medium;
a second guide provided on a downstream side of the first guide in the ejection direction and configured to guide the recording medium;
a receiver configured to receive the recording medium ejected from the ejection opening, the receiver including a first end on an upstream side of the receiver with respect to the ejection direction such that the first end is held between the first guide and the second guide.

2. The recording apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first end of the receiver is at a position under the first guide so as to overlap with the first guide in the ejection direction.

3. The recording apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
a clearance is formed between the first guide and the second guide in a vertical direction, and
wherein the first end of the receiver is held in the clearance and configured to overlap with the first guide in a horizontal direction.

4. The recording apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein the first guide has a first guide surface that guides a surface opposite to an image recording surface of the recording medium,
wherein the second guide has a second guide surface on a downstream side of the first guide surface in the ejection direction,
wherein the receiver has a receiver guide surface that guides the opposite surface on the downstream side of the first guide surface on a part covering the second guide surface, and
wherein the first guide surface and the receiver guide surface are aligned in the ejection direction.

5. The recording apparatus according to claim 4 ,
wherein the second guide has a support surface that supports the receiver in the clearance, and
wherein the support surface is a surface inclined with respect to the first guide surface so as to extend in a direction that is bent at an acute angle with respect to a direction that extends the first guide surface.

6. The recording apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the second guide has the support surface as a first support surface and has a second support surface that extends from the first support surface to outside of the clearance and toward the ejection opening in the ejection direction so as to support the receiver,
wherein the first guide surface and the second support surface extend in parallel and diagonally downward to the ejection opening with respect to a horizontal plane, and
wherein the first support surface forms a smaller angle with the horizontal plane than the second support surface.

7. The recording apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein the first end of the receiver is configured to be attachable and detachable to and from the second guide.

8. The recording apparatus according to claim 7 ,
wherein the clearance between the first guide and the second guide is opened to outside of the side through the ejection opening so as to insert and remove the first end of the receiver into and from the clearance through the ejection opening.

9. The recording apparatus according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a first holder that holds a second end of the receiver, the second end being on a downstream side of the receiver in the ejection direction; and
a second holder that holds the first end of the receiver and is configured to be attachable to and detachable from the second guide.

10. The recording apparatus according to claim 9 ,
wherein the second holder includes engaging portions on both ends of the second holder in a width direction perpendicular to the ejection direction,
wherein the second guide has an engaged portion to which the engaging portions are engaged, and
wherein the receiver is attached to and detached from the second guide by engagement and disengagement of the engaging portions and the engaged portion.

11. The recording apparatus according to claim 10 ,
wherein the second holder has handle portions on both ends of the second holder in the width direction, the handle portions being held by a user in a case where the receiver is attached to or detached from the second guide, and
wherein the handle portions inside the ejection opening are exposed out of the clearance.

12. The recording apparatus according to claim 9 ,
wherein the second holder includes a first holding portion disposed inside the clearance between the first guide and the second guide in a case of being engaged with the second guide, and a second holding portion extending along a guide surface of the second guide outside the clearance, and
wherein the receiver is attached to the second holder such that a part of the first end surrounds the first holding portion and the second holding portion and is interposed between the second holding portion and the guide surface of the second guide.

13. The recording apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein the recording apparatus further includes a shield member that closes the clearance between the first guide and the second guide in a case where the first end of the receiver is removed from the clearance.

14. The recording apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein the receiver includes engaging portions on both ends of the receiver in a width direction perpendicular to the ejection direction on the first end,
wherein the second guide has an engaged portion where the engaging portions are engaged, and
wherein the first end of the receiver is held by the second guide by engagement of the engaging portion with the engaged portions.

15. The recording apparatus according to claim 14 ,
wherein each of the engaging portions is a loop cord portion, and
wherein the engaged portion is a hook-shaped portion capable of hanging the cord portion.

16. The recording apparatus according to claim 15 ,
further comprising an opening/closing member that opens and closes a part of the side below the ejection opening,
wherein the second guide is combined with the opening/closing member,
wherein the engaged portion of the second guide is exposed to the outside of the housing while the opening/closing member is opened, and
wherein the first end of the receiver is held inside the clearance between the first guide and the second guide while the opening/closing member is closed.

17. The recording apparatus according to claim 16 ,
wherein a distance between positions where the cord portion is hung from the hook-shaped portion on both ends of the receiver in the width direction is shorter than a distance between positions where the hook-shaped portion receives the cord on both ends of the second guide in the width direction.

18. The recording apparatus according to claim 16 ,
wherein the opening/closing member has a depressed portion for opening the opening/closing member in a closed state with fingers by a user, outside the receiver in the width direction.

19. The recording apparatus according to claim 16 ,
further comprising a second opening/closing member that opens and closes a part of the side below the opening/closing member,
wherein the second opening/closing member has a second engaged portion where the engaging portions are engageable,
wherein the second engaged portion is exposed to the outside of the housing while the second o

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Asai Yasuyuki
• Nozawa Hideyuki
• Yoneyama Hiromasa
• Uchida Kota

Classifications

• B41J11/0045 Primary

  Guides for printing material (curl smoothing B41J11/0005; platens B41J11/02, B41J11/06; guiding webs B41J15/046) · CPC title

• B41J13/106 Primary

  for the sheet output section · CPC title

• B41J13/10

  Sheet holders, retainers {, movable guides}, or stationary guides · CPC title

• B65H31/00

  Pile receivers (carriers used for associating, collating or gathering articles B65H39/00) · CPC title

• B65H31/22

  removable or interchangeable · CPC title