US 7,063,417 B2 · Recording apparatus and recording medium conveying apparatus

Abstract

A recording apparatus capable of preventing a recording medium from contacting a recording unit and causing a jam thereof on conveying is provided. The recording apparatus of the present invention has a paper feed roller placed further upstream in a conveying direction in a normal conveying direction of the recording medium than a record head for recording on recording paper and a sheet inverting portion for inverting the recording paper like a loop and feeding it to the paper feed roller. The recording apparatus is constituted to stand by, for a predetermined time, for the conveying of the recording paper in a state in which a leading end of a backside of the recording paper in the normal conveying direction is in the sheet inverting portion in the process of inverting the recording paper in the sheet inverting portion.

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Dependent claims

A recording apparatus for recording on both faces of a recording medium with a record head, including:

a conveying roller provided upstream of said recording head to convey the recording medium;
a first inverting roller for inverting the recording medium on which a first face has been recorded by said recording head;
a first pinch roller rotatingly driven by said first inverting roller;
a second inverting roller provided downstream of said first inverting roller, for inverting the recording medium;
a second pinch roller rotatingly driven by said second inverting roller;
and
control means for stopping the conveying of the recording medium in a state of holding a leading edge of the recording medium at a nip portion between the second inverting roller and the second pinch roller.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Recording apparatus and recording medium conveying apparatus

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