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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2006
Hiroyuki Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Haruo Uchida, Kanagawa, JP;
Nozomu Nishiberi, Kanagawa, JP;
Koya Iwakura, Kanagawa, JP;
Kentaro Onuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenji Shigeno, Kanagawa, JP;
Motoyuki Taguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinya Sonoda, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Haruo Uchida, Kanagawa, JP;
Nozomu Nishiberi, Kanagawa, JP;
Koya Iwakura, Kanagawa, JP;
Kentaro Onuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenji Shigeno, Kanagawa, JP;
Motoyuki Taguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinya Sonoda, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a recording apparatus that helps to achieve a reduction in size and cost. The recording apparatus has a U-turn sheet feeding mechanism for reversing and feeding a recording medium and a duplex transport mechanism for reversing the recording medium and performing printing on both sides thereof, in which the same transport path serves as a transport path for transporting the recording medium from a U-turn sheet feeding roller to a main transport roller for transporting the recording medium to a printing portion and as a transport path for reversal in duplex transport. Further, a transport roller provided in the transport path from the U-turn sheet feeding roller to the main transport roller for transporting the recording medium to the printing portion is the same as a transport roller for duplex transport. A single transport roller serves both as the U-turn transport roller and as the duplex transport roller.