US 12,559,331 B2Granted

Recording apparatus

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsSho Takahashi, Masashi Ito, Motoyuki Taguchi, Keisuke Arita, Kento Tamari, Ryota Komatsu

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Abstract

A recording apparatus includes a feed roller, a conveyance roller, a recording unit, a reverse path, and a control unit. The conveyance roller conveys a sheet fed by the feed roller. The recording unit performs recording on the conveyed sheet. The reverse path reverses, in the reverse path, a traveling direction of the sheet on which the recording is performed. The control unit performs control so that a leading edge of a second sheet overlaps a first sheet on which recording is being performed by the recording unit. Recording on the second sheet is to be performed by the recording unit following the recording on the first sheet. The control unit performs control to reverse the traveling direction of the first sheet and the traveling direction of the second sheet in the reverse path while maintaining an overlapping state of the first sheet and the second sheet.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A recording apparatus comprising:

a feed roller configured to feed a sheet;
a conveyance roller configured to convey the sheet fed by the feed roller;
a recording unit configured to perform recording on the sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller;
a reverse path configured to reverse, in the reverse path, a traveling direction of the sheet on which the recording is performed by the recording unit;
a circulation path through which the first sheet conveyed from the reverse path and the second sheet conveyed from the reverse path are to be returned to the recording unit;
and
a control unit configured to perform control so that a leading edge of a second sheet overlaps a first sheet on which recording is being performed by the recording unit,
wherein recording on the second sheet is to be performed by the recording unit following the recording on the first sheet,
wherein the control unit performs control to reverse the traveling direction of the first sheet and the traveling direction of the second sheet in the reverse path while maintaining an overlapping state of the first sheet and the second sheet, and
wherein, after the recording is performed on the second sheet, the control unit is further configured to perform control to overlap the leading edge of the second sheet conveyed from the circulation path on a third sheet while the recording is being performed on the third sheet.

7 more elements

A recording apparatus comprising:

a feed roller configured to feed a sheet;
a conveyance roller configured to convey the sheet fed by the feed roller;
a recording unit configured to perform recording on the sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller;
a reverse path configured to reverse, in the reverse path, a traveling direction of the sheet on which the recording is performed by the recording unit;
a circulation path through which the first sheet conveyed from the reverse path and the second sheet conveyed from the reverse path are to be returned to the recording unit;
and
a control unit configured to perform control so that a leading edge of a second sheet overlaps a first sheet on which recording is being performed by the recording unit,
wherein recording on the second sheet is to be performed by the recording unit following the recording on the first sheet,
wherein the control unit performs control to reverse the traveling direction of the first sheet and the traveling direction of the second sheet in the reverse path while maintaining an overlapping state of the first sheet and the second sheet, and
wherein the control unit performs control to convey the first sheet on which the recording is performed by the recording unit to the circulation path after conveying the second sheet on which the recording is performed by the recording unit to the circulation path.

7 more elements

A recording apparatus comprising:

a feed roller configured to feed a sheet;
a conveyance roller configured to convey the sheet fed by the feed roller;
a recording unit configured to perform recording on the sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller;
a reverse path configured to reverse, in the reverse path, a traveling direction of the sheet on which the recording is performed by the recording unit;
a circulation path through which the first sheet conveyed from the reverse path and the second sheet conveyed from the reverse path are to be returned to the recording unit;
and
a control unit configured to perform control so that a leading edge of a second sheet overlaps a first sheet on which recording is being performed by the recording unit,
wherein recording on the second sheet is to be performed by the recording unit following the recording on the first sheet,
wherein the control unit performs control to reverse the traveling direction of the first sheet and the traveling direction of the second sheet in the reverse path while maintaining an overlapping state of the first sheet and the second sheet, and
wherein the control unit performs control to maintain the overlapping state of the first sheet and the second sheet in the circulation path.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/506,789Filed 10 Nov 2023
Priority: JP 2022-18293315 Nov 2022
Published: US 2024/0158192 A116 May 2024
Granted: 24 Feb 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

B65H 5/06
Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines: by rollers or balls, e.g. between rollers
B41J 3/60
Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed: for printing on both faces of…
B41J 13/0009
Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or…
B41J 13/03
Rollers: driven, e.g. feed rollers separate from platen