Patent ID: 9646447
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: B65H,G07D

Claim:
1. A determination apparatus, comprising: a one side transportation guide, disposed on one side of a conveyance path through which a medium travels when being transported, on which a one side transportation surface is formed facing the conveyance path; a sensor on which a reading surface that reads a state of the medium is provided closer to a side of the one side transportation guide than the conveyance path; an other side transportation guide, disposed on another side of the conveyance path facing the one side transportation guide across the conveyance path, on which an other side transportation surface is formed facing the conveyance path, on which a medium transportation space through which the medium is transported is formed between the other side transportation guide and the one side transportation guide, and on which a bend part is formed, at a portion facing the reading surface, bent in a direction separating from the reading surface more than a portion not facing the reading surface; and a roller disposed facing the reading surface configured to alternatingly move in contact with and separated from the reading surface and to transport the medium by rotating in contact with the medium, such that in a first position in which the roller is separated from the reading surface, an outer peripheral surface of the roller is positioned closer to a side of the other side transportation guide than the conveyance path, wherein the conveyance path is positioned on a line connecting a first contact point and a second contact point, the first contact point is a contact point of a first transportation roller and the medium, the first transportation roller located on an upstream side of the sensor with respect to a transportation direction of the medium along the conveyance path, and the second contact point is a contact point of a second transportation roller and the medium, the second transportation roller located on a downstream side of the sensor with respect to the transportation direction of the medium.