Patent ID: 11936823
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. The medium transport device according to claim 1, further comprising:
a separation roller that is disposed to face the feeding roller and separating the medium by nipping the medium together with the feeding roller when a plurality of the media are stacked and placed on the placement section; and
a pressing portion that is disposed upstream of a nipping position between the feeding roller and the separation roller in the feeding direction, and configured to switch between a first position for pressing the feeding roller by moving forward to and rearward from the feeding roller and a second position for being separated from the feeding roller,
wherein after a trailing end of a preceding medium in the feeding direction, the preceding medium separated and fed precedently by the separation roller in the plurality of media stacked and placed at the second position, passes through the nipping position, a succeeding medium other than the preceding medium in the plurality of media stacked and placed at the first position is pressed against the feeding roller, and power is transmitted from the drive source via the set guide or the restricting section so that the pressing portion is switched between the first position and the second position.