US 8,474,809 B2Granted

Image recording apparatus

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsMasatoshi Izuchi, Yuji Koga, Keisuke Wakakusa, Kenji Samoto

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Abstract

An image recording apparatus according to one aspect comprises: a first tray disposed within an opening of a main body to allow a recording medium to be placed thereon; a second tray disposed above the first tray, the second tray having a second end portion located on a side of the opening; a conveying unit; and a recording unit. The second tray is movable between a first posture and a second posture. When the second tray is in the first posture, a top surface of the second tray in the vicinity of the second end portion is positioned at a predetermined height relative to the first tray. When the second tray moves from the first posture to the second posture, the top surface in the vicinity of the second end portion is moved toward the first tray.

Claims17

Dependent claims

An image recording apparatus comprising:

a main body including an opening;
a recording unit configured to record an image on a recording medium;
a conveying unit including a first roller and a second roller opposed to the first roller, the first roller and the second roller being configured to hold the recording medium and convey the recording medium toward the opening in a conveying direction;
a sheet receiving portion including a placing surface on which the recording medium conveyed by the conveying unit is to be placed;
and
an upper member located above the sheet receiving portion and defining an upper end of the opening,
wherein the sheet receiving portion is movable between a first position and a second position,
wherein the placing surface of the sheet receiving portion in the second position extends further toward a downstream side in the conveying direction than the placing surface of the sheet receiving portion in the first position, and
wherein a distance between the upper member and the placing surface of the sheet receiving portion in the second position is larger than a distance between the upper member and the placing surface of the sheet receiving portion in the first position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/621,768Filed 17 Sep 2012 · continuation
Priority: JP 2007-05030628 Feb 2007
Published: US 2013/0017008 A117 Jan 2013
Granted: 2 Jul 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

B65H 1/04
Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated: adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for…
B65H 2402/46
Details of frames, housings or mountings of the whole handling apparatus: table apparatus
B65H 2405/3322
Superposed compartments: discharge tray superposed to feed tray
B65H 2511/10
Dimensions; Position; Numbers; Identification; Occurrences: size; Dimensions

Family

Application12/039,038Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Feb 2008
Application13/230,609Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Sep 2011
US 8,020,849 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Sep 2011
US 2013/0017008 A1Pre-grant publication · published 17 Jan 2013
US 8,322,702 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2008/0237977 A1Published application
US 2012/0001378 A1Published application
US 8,474,809 B2This patent

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