Image Recording Apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016107464-A1
Application number	US-201514984467-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 30, 2015
Priority date	Nov 28, 2011
Publication date	Apr 21, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a sheet includes a recording section which records the image on the sheet in a transport passage for transporting the sheet in a transport direction; and a plurality of holding members which are provided while being separated from each other in a widthwise direction of the transport passage perpendicular to the transport direction and which press the sheet transported along the transport passage, from at least one of front and back surfaces of the sheet. At lease one holding member, which is provided at a central portion in the widthwise direction of the transport passage, is arranged on a downstream side in the transport direction as compared with the other holding members.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An image recording apparatus comprising:
a roller pair configured to nip a sheet therebetween and transport the sheet in a transport direction; a recording section provided downstream of a nip point of the roller pair in the transport direction and including nozzles that discharge ink to the sheet; a platen provided below the recording section and configured to support the sheet; and a plurality of abutment portions arranged in a widthwise direction perpendicular to the transport direction and configured to abut against an upper surface of the sheet, wherein an end of each of the plurality of abutment portions is positioned at a gap between the recording section and the platen, wherein the plurality of abutment portions includes: a first abutment portion configured to abut against an edge of the sheet in the widthwise direction; and a second abutment portion configured not to abut against the edge of the sheet in the widthwise direction, and wherein a width of the first abutment portion is wider than a width of the second abutment portion in the widthwise direction.

2 . The image recording apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first abutment portion is located in the most outside among the plurality of abutment portions in the widthwise direction.

3 . The image recording apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the end of each of the plurality of abutment portions is positioned at upstream of the nozzles in the transport direction.

4 . The image recording apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the end of each of the plurality of abutment portions is disposed closely to the nozzles in the transport direction.

Assignees

• Brother Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Samoto Kenji

Classifications

• B65H2402/46

  Table apparatus · CPC title

• B65H2404/513

  with limited number of active areas · CPC title

• B41J11/0045

  Guides for printing material (curl smoothing B41J11/0005; platens B41J11/02, B41J11/06; guiding webs B41J15/046) · CPC title

• B41J13/03

  driven, e.g. feed rollers separate from platen · CPC title

• B65H2404/611

  arranged to form a channel · CPC title