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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2004
Koya Iwakura, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuyo Ohashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Taniguro, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichi Yoshikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Koya Iwakura, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuyo Ohashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Taniguro, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichi Yoshikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording apparatus capable of preventing a recording medium from contacting a recording unit and causing a jam thereof on conveying is provided. The recording apparatus of the present invention has a paper feed roller placed further upstream in a conveying direction in a normal conveying direction of the recording medium than a record head for recording on recording paper and a sheet inverting portion for inverting the recording paper like a loop and feeding it to the paper feed roller. The recording apparatus is constituted to stand by, for a predetermined time, for the conveying of the recording paper in a state in which a leading end of a backside of the recording paper in the normal conveying direction is in the sheet inverting portion in the process of inverting the recording paper in the sheet inverting portion.