Ink-jet printer
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNoriyuki Kawamata, Yuji Koga, Wataru Sugiyama, Kenji Samoto
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Abstract
There is provided an image recording apparatus including a transporting path, a recording section, a first and second rollers pinching the recording medium therebetween, a supporting member which rotatably supports the second roller, a holding member which is movable along a transporting direction of the recording medium, a bias applying member which applies a bias on the holding member, in an opposite direction opposite to the transporting direction and a load member which generates a load in the opposite direction, with respect to the recording medium.
Claims12
An ink-jet printer comprising:
- a recording device configured to form an image on a sheet transported through a transporting path in a transporting direction;
- a drive roller disposed upstream of the recording device in the transporting direction and connected to a motor;
- a driven roller in contact with the drive roller, and configured to transport the sheet by nipping the sheet with the drive roller, the drive roller and the driven roller being configured to transport the sheet, at a point of nipping the sheet, in a roller-discharge direction directing from a rear side of the ink-jet printer to a front side of the ink-jet printer;
- a spring biasing the driven roller toward the drive roller;
- a holding member configured to slidingly contact a roller surface of the drive roller;
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- a bias member configured to bias the holding member in a biasing direction directing from the front side of the ink-jet printer to the rear side of the ink-jet printer,
- wherein the roller-discharge direction is tangential to the nip point between the drive roller and driven roller, and
- wherein the biasing of the holding member in the biasing direction includes at least one force component, having a magnitude greater than 0, in a direction parallel and opposite to the roller-discharge direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.