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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2021
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Shohei Ichikawa, Niwa-gun, JP;
Tsuyoshi Ito, Nagoya, JP;
Masatake Sato, Ichinomiya, JP;
Keisuke Wakakusa, Nagoya, JP;
Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Tajimi, JP;
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An image recording apparatus including: a recording unit; an accommodation part configured to accommodate therein a plurality of recording media including first and second recording medium and having a support surface on which the plurality of the recording media is supported; a conveying path; a feeder roller contacting the recording medium in the accommodation part from above; a reversing path; a recording medium detection unit located above the support surface and between the feeder roller and a downstream end of the support surface in the conveying direction; and a controller configured to control the feeder roller so as to feed the second recording medium in a manner that a front end portion of the second recording medium overlaps a rear end portion of the first recording medium, when the recording medium detection unit detects the rear end portion of the first recording medium fed by the feeder roller.