# US 12,005,720 B2 · Image recording apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,005,720 B2 - Document ID: US12005720B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/344,132 - Filed: 2023-06-29 - Published: 2023-11-30 - Granted: 2024-06-11 - Earliest claimed: 2020-03-26 - Assignees: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Satoshi Miyase; Yoshinori Osakabe; Tsuyoshi Kuwayama; Jun Morikawa; Haruka Azechi; Yasuo Ono; Yuto Chiba - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12005720B2 ## CPC - B41J 29/13: Cases or covers - B41J 29/38: Drives, motors, controls or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism - B65H 5/38: immovable in operation - B41J 3/543: {with multiple inkjet print heads (B41J2/17503, B41J2/2103 take precedence)} - B41J 11/006: {Means for preventing paper jams or for facilitating their removal} - B65H 2402/441: movable for facilitating access to area inside the housing, e.g. pivoting or sliding - B65H 2402/45: Doors - B65H 2405/324: between operative position and non operative position - B65H 2407/21: Manual feeding - B41J: TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - B65H: HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES ## Abstract A first cover moves between a first closed position and a first open position. The first cover is located at another end of a housing when the first cover is located at the first closed position. A second cover moves between a second closed position and a second open position. The second cover is located closer to one end than the first cover is at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A first portion of a first conveyance path is formed between the first cover and the second cover at the first closed position and at the second closed position. A second portion of a second conveyance path is formed at a side of the second cover facing the one end at the second closed position. When the first cover opens the first portion, the second cover is located at the second closed position. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An image recording apparatus comprising: a housing having one end and an other end spaced apart from each other in a particular direction, a first conveyance path for a first sheet being formed in the housing, a second conveyance path for a second sheet being formed in the housing; a first tray configured to support the first sheet; a second tray configured to support the second sheet; a first print engine, the first conveyance path connecting the first tray with the first print engine; a second print engine, the second conveyance path connecting the second tray with the second print engine; a first member having a first guide surface and configured to move between: a first closed position at which the first guide surface guides the first sheet conveyed along the first conveyance path, the first member being located at the other end of the housing when the first member is located at the first closed position; and a first open position at which the first member opens at least part of the first conveyance path by separating from the first closed position; and a second member having a second guide surface and configured to move between: a second closed position at which the second guide surface guides the second sheet conveyed along the second conveyance path, the second member being located closer to the one end than the first member when the first member is located at the first closed position and the second member is located at the second closed position, the second conveyance path being formed at a side of the second guide surface facing the one end when the second member is located at the second closed position; and a second open position at which the second member opens the second conveyance path by separating from the second closed position. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second member is configured to move from the second closed position to the second open position independently of movement of the first member. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a vertical length of the second member positioned at the second closed position is shorter than a vertical length of the first member positioned at the first closed position. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least part of the first member positioned at the first closed position is below the second member positioned at the second closed position. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least part of the first member positioned at the first closed position is above the second member positioned at the second closed position. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least part of the first member positioned at the first open position is below the second member positioned at the second open position. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first conveyance path including a first portion covered by the first member when the first member is located at the first closed position; wherein the second conveyance path including a second portion covered by the second member when the second member is located at the second closed position; and wherein a vertical length of the second portion is shorter than a vertical length of the first portion. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first conveyance path including a first portion covered by the first member when the first member is located at the first closed position; wherein the second conveyance path including a second portion covered by the second member when the second member is located at the second closed position; and wherein at least part of the first portion is below the second portion. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first conveyance path including a first portion covered by the first member when the first member is located at the first closed position; wherein the second conveyance path including a second portion covered by the second member when the second member is located at the second closed position; and wherein at least part of the first portion is above the second portion. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The image recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second tray and the second print engine are located between the first tray and the first print engine in a vertical direction. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The image recording apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the second print engine is higher than the second tray, and the first print engine is higher than the first tray. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The image recording apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the first print engine is located between the first member and the one end of the housing in the particular direction. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The image recording apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the second print engine is located between the second member and the one end of the housing in the particular direction.