Patent ID: 8550734

Claim:
A transportation guide mechanism that is disposed between an exit opening of a transportation mechanism that can open and close to a device body and a transportation path through which a sheet medium conveyed from the transportation mechanism is passed, and guides the medium conveyed from the exit opening to the transportation path, the transportation guide mechanism comprising: a guide member rendering a guide path through which the medium can pass, the guide member being supported displaceably relative to the device body, the transportation mechanism moving through an opening movement path when the transportation mechanism is opened relative to the device body, the transportation mechanism contacting the guide member over a portion of the opening movement path and thereby displacing the guide member relative to the device body and the transportation mechanism to a position removed from the opening movement path, the transportation mechanism moving through a closing movement path when the transportation mechanism is closed relative to the device body, the transportation mechanism contacting the guide member over a portion of the closing movement path and thereby displacing the guide member relative to the device body and the transportation mechanism to a position removed from the closing movement path; wherein the guide member is pushed and moved toward the transportation path by the transportation mechanism opening relative to the device body.