Printer Sheet Housing Apparatus Side Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sheet housing apparatuses for printers require significant space and increased size to accommodate large sheets, often interfering with the printer's columns and limiting the use of available space, especially in compact installations.
Innovation Solution
The design incorporates a sheet housing apparatus that can be mounted to a printer with overlapping feet in the mounting direction but not in the width direction, allowing for efficient use of space underneath the printer body and reducing the overall size of the printing apparatus while providing ample sheet housing capacity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If the sheet housing apparatus is positioned at a high location apart from the printer body to ensure sheet housing space, then the sheet housing capacity is improved, but the overall apparatus size increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from vertical stacking (high position apart from printer body) to horizontal integration (mounting on the side surface of the printer body). This dimensional change allows the sheet housing apparatus to utilize the lateral space of the printer body, providing adequate sheet housing capacity while maintaining a compact overall apparatus footprint.
Solution Approach 2:
The sheet housing apparatus is nested on the side surface of the printer body, with its feet overlapping with the printer's feet in the width direction. This nesting arrangement allows the sheet housing apparatus to occupy space that would otherwise be unused, effectively integrating two functional components into a compact unified structure.
2Length of stationary object
If the sheet housing apparatus is mounted to use the lower part of the printer body space, then the overall apparatus size is reduced, but interference with the printer columns occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs asymmetric positioning where the sheet housing apparatus is mounted on one side surface of the printer body rather than symmetrically below. This asymmetric arrangement, combined with offsetting the feet positions in the width direction, allows the apparatus to utilize lower body space while avoiding interference with the printer columns by positioning components in non-conflicting locations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by positioning the sheet housing apparatus feet at specific locations that overlap with printer feet only in the mounting direction but not in the width direction. This localized foot arrangement creates a non-interfering configuration that allows compact mounting without affecting column functionality.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the sheet housing apparatus is positioned apart from the printer body, then the printer and sheet housing apparatus columns do not interfere, but the housing space for sheets is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the printer body and sheet housing apparatus into an integrated unit by mounting the sheet housing apparatus on the side surface of the printer body. This merging allows the columns of each component to be positioned without interference while the integrated structure provides adequate sheet housing space, resolving the contradiction between separation and integration.
Data Source
AI summary
A sheet housing apparatus including a housing unit, which houses a sheet to be discharged from a discharging opening of a printer, and a pair of housing-side feet disposed on both sides, in a width direction, of the sheet housing apparatus. The sheet housing apparatus can be combined with the printer. The printer includes a pair of body-side feet disposed on both sides, in the width direction, of the printer. In a state in which the sheet housing apparatus is combined with the printer, the body-side feet and the housing-side feet are arranged not to overlap with each other in the width direction.