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US 8,408,828 B2Granted
Image recording apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTetsuya Ouchi
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus wherein the controller is configured to adjust a distance between a first recording medium and a second recording medium fed subsequently to the first recording medium in a medium feeding direction on the basis of a length L1 of a trailing-end marginal area of the first recording medium, a length L2 of a leading-end marginal area of the second recording medium, and a length L0 of a feeding-path recording area on a medium feeding path in the medium feeding direction such that the first recording medium and the second recording medium are not overlapped with each other in the feeding-path recording area and such that respective image recorded areas of the first recording medium and the second recording medium are not disposed on the feeding-path recording area at the same time.
Claims13
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- an image recording unit configured to record an image on a recording medium located at a feeding-path recording area as a specific area on a medium feeding path through which the recording medium is fed;
- a medium-feed mechanism configured to feed the recording medium through the medium feeding path from an upstream side thereof to a downstream side thereof in a medium feeding direction such that the recording medium passes through the feeding-path recording area;
- a medium-supply mechanism configured to supply the recording medium to the medium-feed mechanism from a position located on an upstream side of the medium-feed mechanism in the medium feeding direction;
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- a controller configured to control the supply and the feed of the recording medium by controlling the medium-supply mechanism and the medium-feed mechanism,
- wherein the controller includes:
- a first specifying section configured to specify a length L1 of a trailing-end marginal area of a first recording medium in the medium feeding direction, the first recording medium being a recording medium on which an image is recorded at the feeding-path recording area and the trailing-end marginal area being a marginal area on which the image is not recorded and which is an upstream-side portion of the first recording medium in the medium feeding direction;
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- a second specifying section configured to specify a length L2 of a leading-end marginal area of a second recording medium in the medium feeding direction, the second recording medium being a recording medium fed to the feeding-path recording area subsequently to the first recording medium and the leading-end marginal area being a marginal area on which the image is not recorded and which is a downstream-side portion of the second recording medium in the medium feeding direction, and
- wherein the controller is configured to adjust a length between the first recording medium and the second recording medium in the medium feeding direction on the basis of the length L1 specified by the first specifying section, the length L2 specified by the second specifying section, and a length L0 of the feeding-path recording area in the medium feeding direction such that the first recording medium and the second recording medium are not overlapped with each other in the feeding-path recording area and such that an image recorded area of the first recording medium on which the image is to be recorded and an image recorded area of the second recording medium on which the image is to be recorded are not disposed on the feeding-path recording area at the same time.
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An image recording apparatus comprising:
- an image recording unit configured to record an image on a recording medium located at a feeding-path recording area as a specific area on a medium feeding path through which the recording medium is fed;
- a medium-feed mechanism configured to feed the recording medium through the medium feeding path from an upstream side thereof to a downstream side thereof in a medium feeding direction such that the recording medium passes through the feeding-path recording area;
- a medium-supply mechanism configured to supply the recording medium to the medium-feed mechanism from a position located on an upstream side of the medium-feed mechanism in the medium feeding direction;
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- a controller configured to control the supply and the feed of the recording medium by controlling the medium-supply mechanism and the medium-feed mechanism,
- wherein the controller includes:
- a first specifying section configured to specify a length L1 of a trailing-end marginal area of a first recording medium in the medium feeding direction, the first recording medium being a recording medium on which an image is recorded at the feeding-path recording area and the trailing-end marginal area being a marginal area on which the image is not recorded and which is an upstream-side portion of the first recording medium in the medium feeding direction;
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- a second specifying section configured to specify a length L2 of a leading-end marginal area of a second recording medium in the medium feeding direction, the second recording medium being a recording medium fed to the feeding-path recording area subsequently to the first recording medium and the leading-end marginal area being a marginal area on which the image is not recorded and which is a downstream-side portion of the second recording medium in the medium feeding direction,
- wherein the controller is configured to adjust a length between the first recording medium and the second recording medium in the medium feeding direction on the basis of the length L1 specified by the first specifying section, the length L2 specified by the second specifying section, and a length L0 of the feeding-path recording area in the medium feeding direction such that the first recording medium and the second recording medium are not overlapped with each other in the feeding-path recording area and such that an image recorded area of the first recording medium on which the image is to be recorded and an image recorded area of the second recording medium on which the image is to be recorded are not disposed on the feeding-path recording area at the same time, and
- wherein the controller further includes:
- a judging section configured to judge whether a total length (L1+L2) which is a sum of the length L1 specified by the first specifying section and the length L2 specified by the second specifying section is equal to or longer than the length L0 of the feeding-path recording area in the medium feeding direction or not;
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- an adjusting section configured to adjust the length between the first recording medium and the second recording medium in the medium feeding direction such that the length between the first recording medium and the second recording medium in the feeding-path recording area becomes equal to or shorter than the length L0 where the judging section has judged that the total length (L1+L2) is equal to or longer than the length L0.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.