Ink-Jet Recording Apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTsuyoshi Ito, Yuji Koga, Wataru Sugiyama, Kenji Samoto
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Abstract
There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus which includes a recording portion, and a contact portion configured to come into contact with an upper surface of the sheet. The contact portion has a storage portion provided on a side of the recording portion and configured to store an ink, and a protruding portion is provided between both ends in a width direction intersecting the transporting direction of the storage portion, and which is protruded toward the recording section, and an upper end of the protruding portion is the highest in the contact portion.
Claims17
An ink-jet recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording portion configured to jet ink droplets from nozzles onto a sheet;
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- a contact portion provided between the nozzles and an upstream end of the recording portion in a transporting direction, and configured to come into contact with an upper surface of the sheet,
- wherein the contact portion has a storage portion provided on a side of the recording portion and configured to store ink.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.