Image recording apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsMamoru Yasuda, Makoto Shibano
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Abstract
A conveying mechanism includes: a first belt roller; a second belt roller provided substantially parallel to the first belt roller downstream in the conveying direction of the recording medium; a conveying belt looped over at least the first belt roller and the second belt roller; a belt drive unit conveying the conveying belt; a resist roller pair configured by a first resist roller and a second resist roller contacting the first resist roller; and a resist roller drive unit driving the rotation of the first resist roller or the second resist roller. The first belt roller and the first resist roller are coaxially arranged, and the first belt roller rotates independent of the first resist roller.
Claims13
An image recording apparatus, comprising:
- an image recording unit which records an image on a recording medium, and a conveying mechanism which conveys the recording medium,
- wherein the conveying mechanism comprises:
- a first belt roller;
- a second belt roller provided substantially parallel to the first belt roller downstream in the conveying direction of the recording medium;
- a conveying belt looped over at least the first belt roller and the second belt roller;
- a belt drive unit which conveys the conveying belt;
- a resist roller pair comprising a first resist roller and a second resist roller contacting the first resist roller;
- and
- a resist roller drive unit which drives the rotation of the first resist roller or the second resist roller,
- wherein the first belt roller and the first resist roller are coaxially arranged, and the first belt roller rotates independently of the first resist roller, and
- wherein a diameter of the first resist roller is larger than a diameter of the first belt roller.
An image recording apparatus, comprising:
- an image recording unit which records an image on a recording medium, and a conveying mechanism which conveys the recording medium,
- wherein the conveying mechanism comprises:
- a first belt roller;
- a second belt roller provided substantially parallel to the first belt roller downstream in the conveying direction of the recording medium;
- a conveying belt looped over at least the first belt roller and the second belt roller;
- a belt drive unit which conveys the conveying belt;
- a resist roller pair comprising a first resist roller and a second resist roller contacting the first resist roller;
- and
- a resist roller drive unit which drives the rotation of the first resist roller or the second resist roller,
- wherein the first belt roller and the first resist roller are coaxially arranged, and the first belt roller rotates independently of the first resist roller, and
- wherein an amount of travel per unit time of the recording medium by the resist roller pair is larger than an amount of travel per unit time of the recording medium by the conveying belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.