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US 8,998,207 B2Granted
Image recording apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHironori Takasaki, Quanhe Li
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus includes: a recording portion; a sheet conveyor; a detector; and a controller configured to control the sheet conveyor to stop a first-attribute sheet in a state in which the sheet conveyor is nipping the first-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the first-attribute sheet reaches a first-attribute-sheet stopping position; and to control the sheet conveyor to stop a second-attribute sheet in a state in which the sheet conveyor is nipping the second-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the second-attribute sheet reaches a second-attribute-sheet stopping position which is located on an upstream side of the first-attribute-sheet stopping position in the conveying direction.
Claims10
An image recording apparatus, comprising:
- a recording portion configured to record an image on a sheet conveyed through a conveying path in a conveying direction by ejecting recording material to the sheet;
- a sheet conveyor disposed at a downstream side of the recording portion in the conveying direction and configured to convey the sheet in the conveying direction while nipping the sheet;
- a detector configured to detect a position of the sheet conveyed through the conveying path;
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- a controller configured to:
- in a case where all parts of the image have been recorded on a first-attribute sheet which has a first attribute, control the sheet conveyor to stop the first-attribute sheet in a state in which the sheet conveyor is nipping the first-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the first-attribute sheet reaches a first-attribute-sheet stopping position where the-first-attribute sheet is to be stopped after all parts of the image have been recorded thereon;
- in a case where all parts of the image have been recorded on a second-attribute sheet which has a second attribute, control the sheet conveyor to stop the second-attribute sheet in a state in which the sheet conveyor is nipping the second-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the second-attribute sheet reaches a second-attribute-sheet stopping position where the second-attribute sheet is to be stopped after all parts of the image have been recorded thereon, the second-attribute-sheet stopping position being located on an upstream side of the first-attribute-sheet stopping position in the conveying direction;
- control the sheet conveyor to stop conveying the first-attribute-sheet when an upstream end of the first-attribute-sheet in the conveying direction reaches the first-attribute-sheet stopping position which is located on an upstream side of the sheet conveyor in the conveying direction;
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- control the sheet conveyor to stop conveying the second-attribute-sheet when an upstream end of the second-attribute-sheet in the conveying direction reaches the second-attribute-sheet stopping position.
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An image recording apparatus, comprising:
- a recording portion configured to record an image on a sheet conveyed through a conveying path in a conveying direction by ejecting recording material to the sheet;
- a sheet conveyor disposed at a downstream side of the recording portion in the conveying direction and configured to convey the sheet in the conveying direction while nipping the sheet;
- a detector configured to detect a position of the sheet conveyed through the conveying path;
- a controller configured to:
- in a case where all parts of the image have been recorded on a first-attribute sheet which has a first attribute, control the sheet conveyor to stop the first-attribute sheet in a state in which the sheet conveyor is nipping the first-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the first-attribute sheet reaches a first-attribute-sheet stopping position where the-first-attribute sheet is to be stopped after all parts of the image have been recorded thereon;
- and,
- in a case where all parts of the image have been recorded on a second-attribute sheet which has a second attribute, control the sheet conveyor to stop the second-attribute sheet in a state in which the sheet conveyor is nipping the second-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the second-attribute sheet reaches a second-attribute-sheet stopping position where the second-attribute sheet is to be stopped after all parts of the image have been recorded thereon, the second-attribute-sheet stopping position being located on an upstream side of the first-attribute-sheet stopping position in the conveying direction;
- an attribute-storage configured to store the first attribute and the second attribute;
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- a stopping-position storage configured to store the first-attribute-sheet stopping position and the second-attribute-sheet stopping position, and
- wherein the controller is further configured to:
- in a case where the attribute-storage stores the first attribute of the first-attribute sheet, control the sheet conveyor to stop conveying the first-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the first-attribute sheet reaches the first-attribute-sheet stopping position read from the stopping-position storage;
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- in a case where the attribute-storage stores the second attribute of the second-attribute sheet, control the sheet conveyor to stop conveying the second-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the second-attribute sheet reaches the second-attribute-sheet stopping position read from the stopping-position storage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.