Patent ID: 9725262
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: B65H

Claim:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: a recording unit that performs recording on a medium; a medium housing section that houses the medium; an edge guide that is provided in the medium housing section, that is displaceable according to a size of the medium, and that guides an edge of the medium; a detection unit that is spaced from the edge guide by a gap in a displacement direction of the edge guide and that detects a distance to the edge guide; a computation unit that computes a position of the edge guide based on a result of detection by the detection unit so as to detect the size of the medium or to detect the amount of the medium housed in the medium housing section; and a feed roller that feeds out the medium from the medium housing section; wherein the feed roller is provided on a pivotable pivot member and advances toward and withdraws from a bottom surface of the medium housing section as the pivot member pivots, and wherein the detection unit is provided on the pivot member.