Recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaaki Ishihara, Koichiro Kawaguchi
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Abstract
There is provided a recording apparatus in which a pressure contact position of a pinch roller to a conveying roller and a distance between the pressure contact position of the pinch roller and a platen can be properly set corresponding to different recording conditions so that a high quality image can be recorded even under the different recording conditions. A movement of the pressure contact position in which the pressure contact position of the pinch roller 37 to the conveying roller is moved by moving a pinch roller holder and a movement of the platen in which a position of the platen which faces a recording head 7 is moved for the pressure contact position of the pinch roller are executed in an interlocking relational manner.
Claims10
A recording apparatus for recording onto a recording sheet by a recording head, comprising:
- a platen configured to guide the recording sheet to a position facing the recording head;
- a conveying roller configured to convey the recording sheet on an upstream side of the platen in a conveying direction of the recording sheet;
- a pinch roller configured to contact with the conveying roller;
- moving means for moving the platen to change a position of the platen;
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- a pinch roller holder rotatably holding the pinch roller,
- wherein the recording sheet conveyed by the conveying roller is nipped at a nip by the conveying roller and the pinch roller, and
- wherein the pinch roller and the conveying roller have a pressure contact position, the tangent thereof forming a non-zero angle with respect to the platen, and wherein the moving means is configured to move the pressure contact position of the pinch roller and the conveying roller such that the non-zero angle is increased or decreased.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.