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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ; B41J / ; G01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3461 / ; 3461 / ; 400185 ; 400320 ;
Abstract
A recording apparatus for effecting recording on a recording medium has a recording head for effecting recording on the recording medium, a reversible motor, a force transmitting device for transmitting the drive force of the motor, a belt having both an engagement portion engageable with the force transmitting device to receive the transmission of the force in order to move the recording head, and an area in which the engagement portion is not provided, and a control unit for controlling the motor so that the motor is rotated in a reverse direction and thereafter rotated in a forward direction when the engagement portion of the belt is brought into engagement with the force transmitting device.