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AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaharu Kimura, Shunichi Hayashiyama, Tatsuya Ogawa, Shigeru Yoshida, Yasunobu Ohkawa
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A media discharging device for an ink-jet printer includes a rubber roller and star roller. A pair of paper guides are arranged on both sides, with respect to its rotary shaft of, the star roller, opposing each other and close to the star roller. Each paper guide has a slant which is inclined gradually upward in the paper discharge direction. This slant is positioned offset with respect to the path of movement of the projections on the star roller towards the paper discharge side, so as to prevent the rear edge of the recording paper from dropping into the recessed portions of the star roller.
A recording media discharging device using a star roller for conveying recording media with images formed thereon in the discharge direction, comprising:
The recording media discharging device according to claim wherein the star roller is comprised of multiple elements arranged at separate positions on the rotary shaft that is extended perpendicularly to the feed direction of recording media, and as the guide means a pair of guide elements are arranged close to each star roller element and on both sides thereof with respect to the extended direction of the rotary shaft.
An ink-jet printer comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.