Medium supplying device and recording device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12017449-B2
Application number	US-202217933009-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 16, 2022
Priority date	Sep 17, 2021
Publication date	Jun 25, 2024
Grant date	Jun 25, 2024

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

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.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Kashiwabara Kazutoshi
• Akama Junki

Classifications

• B65H20/06

  by friction band · CPC title

• B65H23/182

  in unwinding mechanisms or in connection with unwinding operations · CPC title

• B65H2404/255

  Arrangement for tensioning · CPC title

• B65H2404/2613

  Means for changing the transport path, e.g. deforming, lengthening · CPC title

• B65H16/106

  in which power is applied to web roll · CPC title