Patent ID: 8910938

Claim:
A medium carrying device, comprising: a first pair of rollers that forms a nip part and carries a medium, the nip part being defined as an area where the rollers contact each other applying a pressure to the other; a guide part that guides the medium to the first pair of rollers; and a medium detection member that includes a tip end part and a pivoting fulcrum and that is pivoted around the pivoting fulcrum by the medium as the medium moves along the guide part, wherein in a case of being viewed from a roller axial direction of the first pair of rollers, the tip end part passes the nip part when the medium detection member pivots around the pivoting fulcrum as a center; the medium detection member is configured to detect whether or not the medium is present in the guide part and to output a detection result, the medium carrying device, further comprising: a second pair of rollers arranged on a downstream side of the first pair of rollers in a medium carrying direction; and a controller unit that controls rotation of the first pair of rollers and the second pair of rollers based on a detection result of the medium detection member; the medium detection member; detects a rear end of the medium, and the controller unit reverses a rotation direction of the second pair of rollers after the rear end of the medium is detected by the medium detection member and a predetermined period of time passes.