US 12,168,345 B2
Recording device
Yuji Misawa, Matsumoto (JP); and Toshihiro Imae, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/164,260.
Application 18/164,260 is a continuation of application No. 17/162,308, filed on Jan. 29, 2021, granted, now 11,597,218.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-014629 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0182491 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/007 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording device comprising:
a first medium storage section that stores a medium on which to perform recording;
a second medium storage section that stores a medium on which to perform recording and that is disposed below the first medium storage section;
a recording section positioned vertically above the second medium storage section, the recording section performing recording on the medium; and
a supply path through which the medium fed out of the second medium storage section passes through a curved supply path curved so as to be convex upward to reverse the medium in a transport direction including a component in a direction opposite to the direction in which the medium was fed out of the second medium storage section,
wherein the upper end of the curved supply path in the vertical direction is vertically above a lower end of the first medium storage section in the vertical direction.