Image recording apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNao Morimoto, Yuya Tatematsu
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus includes a housing in which a conveying path is formed, a feed tray insertable into and removable from the housing and including an accommodating portion configured to accommodate sheet media in a stacked state, an image recording unit configured to record an image on one of the sheet media in the conveying path, a guide member provided at a facing portion of the housing which faces an end portion of the feed tray inserted into the housing, and configured to guide one of the sheet media in the accommodating portion to the conveying path, and a separator pivotally provided at the facing portion of the housing and configured to separate the sheet media guided by the guide member one by one.
Claims8
An image recording apparatus, comprising:
- a housing in which a conveying path is formed;
- a feed tray insertable into and removable from the housing and including an accommodating portion configured to accommodate sheet media in a stacked state;
- an image recording unit configured to record an image on one of the sheet media in the conveying path;
- a guide member provided at a facing portion of the housing which faces an end portion of the feed tray inserted into the housing, and configured to guide one of the sheet media in the accommodating portion to the conveying path;
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- a separator pivotally provided at the facing portion of the housing and configured to contact the sheet media accommodated in the accommodating portion and to separate the sheet media guided by the guide member one by one, wherein the separator is configured to move between a first posture and a second posture which is closer to a horizontal posture than the first posture;
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- a spring configured to apply a given force to an upper end of the separator to bias the separator in the first posture.
An image recording apparatus, comprising:
- a housing in which a conveying path is formed;
- a feed tray insertable into and removable from the housing and including an accommodating portion configured to accommodate sheet media in a stacked state;
- an image recoding unit configured to record an image on one of the sheet media in the conveying path;
- a guide member provided at a facing portion of the housing which faces an end portion of the feed tray inserted into the housing, and configured to guide one of the sheet media in the accommodating portion to the conveying path;
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- a separator pivotally provided at the facing portion of the housing and configured to contact the sheet media accommodated in the accommodating portion and to separate the sheet media guided by the guide member one by one, wherein;
- the separator is provided with a first uneven portion and a second uneven portion,
- the first uneven portion is provided in a first region on a contact surface of the separator with the sheet media and has a first attack angle with respect to an assumed contact direction with the sheet media, and
- the second uneven portion is provided in a second region on the contact surface of the separator above the first region and has a second attack angle larger than the first attack angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.