Image recording apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenji Samoto
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a sheet includes a recording section which records the image on the sheet in a transport passage for transporting the sheet in a transport direction; and a plurality of holding members which are provided while being separated from each other in a widthwise direction of the transport passage perpendicular to the transport direction and which press the sheet transported along the transport passage, from at least one of front and back surfaces of the sheet. At lease one holding member, which is provided at a central portion in the widthwise direction of the transport passage, is arranged on a downstream side in the transport direction as compared with the other holding members.
Claims9
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording section which records an image on a sheet in a transport passage for transporting the sheet in a transport direction;
- and
- a plurality of holding members spaced apart from each other in a widthwise direction of the transport passage perpendicular to the transport direction, each of the holding members comprising a protrusion having a contact surface that presses the sheet transported along the transport passage with a corresponding pressing force, the protrusion extending toward the transport passage,
- wherein a pressing force applied by the contact surface of the protrusion of each of at least one of the holding members, provided at a central portion in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the transport passage, is greater than a pressing force applied by the contact surface of the protrusion of each of the other holding members.
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording section that records the image on a sheet in a transport passage for transporting the sheet in a transport direction;
- and
- a plurality of holding members spaced apart from each other in a widthwise direction of the transport passage perpendicular to the transport direction and which press a surface of the sheet transported along the transport passage,
- wherein at least one of the holding members, provided at a central portion in the direction perpendicular to the transport direction, is at least partially disposed on a downstream side of all other holding members in the transport direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.