Feed device and recording apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9573781-B2
Application number	US-201514739448-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 15, 2015
Priority date	Jun 25, 2014
Publication date	Feb 21, 2017
Grant date	Feb 21, 2017

Abstract

A feed device includes a feed roller, a transport roller pair provided further to the downstream side in the transport direction of a sheet than the feed roller, a first motor by which the feed roller is driven, and a second motor by which the transport roller pair is driven, and in which a controller that controls the first motor, and performs a skew removal operation accompanying reverse transport of the sheet by the transport roller pair causes a reverse current and a hold current as suppression currents that suppress the reverse transport amount of the feed roller to the reverse transport amount of the transport roller pair or less to flow to the first motor in at least a part of the skew removal operation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A feed device comprising:
a first roller:
a second roller provided further to the downstream side in a transport direction of a medium than the first roller;
a first motor by which the first roller is driven;
a second motor by which the second roller is driven; and
a controller that controls the second motor and performs a skew removal operation accompanying reverse transport of the medium by the second roller,
wherein the controller causes a suppression current that suppresses the reverse transport speed of the first roller to the reverse transport speed of the second roller or less to flow to the first motor in at least a part of the skew removal operation period in which the skew removal operation is performed by the second roller reverse transporting the medium,
the first roller is reversely rotated using a recovery force of the medium that tends to resolve bending formed with the first roller by the second roller reversely transporting the medium in at least a part of the skew removal period in which the skew removal operation is performed by the second roller reversely transporting the medium, and
the controller causes a reverse current to flow to the first motor and assists the reversal of the first roller with the recovery force of the medium.

2. The feed device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the suppression current is a hold current that holds the first motor in a stop state.

3. A recording apparatus comprising:
the feed device according to claim 2 ; and
a recording head that performs recording on a medium fed by the feed device.

4. The feed device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the suppression current is the reverse current with a value able to cause the first roller to perform reverse transport at a reverse transport amount of the reverse transport amount of the second roller or less, and
the controller drives the first motor to reverse by causing the reverse current to flow to the first motor in the process of the skew removal.

5. A recording apparatus comprising:
the feed device according to claim 3 ; and
a recording head that performs recording on a medium fed by the feed device.

6. The feed device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a hopper on which a medium before feeding is mounted, and that is provided to be displaceable in a state of being biased by an elastic member in a direction approaching the first roller,
wherein a rotation shaft of the first roller is interlinked to operate with the hopper via a cam mechanism, and
the hopper is operated by resisting the biasing force of the elastic member via the cam mechanism in the rotation region of the first roller in which the skew removal operation is performed.

7. A recording apparatus comprising:
the feed device according to claim 5 ; and
a recording head that performs recording on a medium fed by the feed device.

8. The feed device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first roller is linked to the first motor to be able to transmit force via a one-way clutch, and
the controller drives the first motor to reverse by causing the reverse current as the suppression current to flow to the first motor matching the reversal driving of the second motor in at least a part of the skew removal operation period.

9. A recording apparatus comprising:
the feed device according to claim 8 ; and
a recording head that performs recording on a medium fed by the feed device.

10. A recording apparatus comprising:
the feed device according to claim 1 ; and
a recording head that performs recording on a medium fed by the feed device.

11. A recording apparatus comprising:
the feed device according to claim 1 ; and
a recording head that performs recording on a medium fed by the feed device.

12. A feed device comprising:
a first roller;
a second roller provided further to the downstream side in a transport direction of a medium than the first roller;
a first motor by which the first roller is driven;
a second motor by which the second roller is driven; and
a controller that controls the second motor and performs a skew removal operation accompanying reverse transport of the medium by the second roller,
wherein the controller causes a suppression current that suppresses the reverse transport speed of the first roller to the reverse transport speed of the second roller or less to flow to the first motor in at least a part of the skew removal operation period in which the skew removal operation is performed by the second roller reverse transporting the medium, and
the controller drives the first motor to reverse by causing a reverse current as the suppression current to flow to the first motor in at least a part of the period in which the medium is nipped in the second roller from the skew removal operation period, and thereafter, at least in a period in which the medium is not nipped by the second roller, and a hold current as the suppression current flows to the first motor.

13. A recording apparatus comprising:
the feed device according to claim 12 ; and
a recording head that performs recording on a medium fed by the feed device.

14. A feed device comprising:
a first roller;
a second roller provided further to the downstream side in a transport direction of a medium than the first roller;
a first motor by which the first roller is driven;
a second motor by which the second roller is driven; and
a controller that controls the second motor and performs a skew removal operation accompanying reverse transport of the medium by the second roller,
wherein the controller causes a suppression current that suppresses the reverse transport speed of the first roller to the reverse transport speed of the second roller or less to flow to the first motor in at least a part of the skew removal operation period in which the skew removal operation is performed by the second roller reverse transporting the medium, and
the controller varies the current value to increase and decrease the current by which the first motor is reversed, a plurality of times, in at least a part of the skew removal operation period.

15. A recording apparatus comprising:
the feed device according to claim 14 ; and
a recording head that performs recording on a medium fed by the feed device.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Kanemaru Shinji
• Igarashi Hitoshi
• Tanaka Takayuki
• Tamura Tetsuya
• Tajima Hiroyuki

Classifications

• B65H3/0661

  for separating inclined-stacked articles with separator rollers above the stack · CPC title

• B65H2701/1311

  leading edge · CPC title

• B65H2220/01

  indicating an entity as a function of which control, adjustment or change is performed, i.e. input · CPC title

• B65H5/062

  between rollers or balls · CPC title

• B65H3/5261

  Retainers of the roller type, e.g. rollers · CPC title