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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2011
Yasuhira Ota, Yatomi, JP;
Shota Iijima, Nagoya, JP;
Naokazu Tanahashi, Nagoya, JP;
Iwane Sano, Nagoya, JP;
Shingo Ito, Kasugai, JP;
Yasuhira Ota, Yatomi, JP;
Shota Iijima, Nagoya, JP;
Naokazu Tanahashi, Nagoya, JP;
Iwane Sano, Nagoya, JP;
Shingo Ito, Kasugai, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
An image recording apparatus including: a recording portion; a tray on which a first recording medium is placed; a convey path for conveying a second recording medium and the tray; a tray guide changeable among (a) a first posture in which the tray guide supports the tray, (b) a second posture whose position is different from that of the first posture in a direction intersecting the convey path, and (c) a third posture in which an upstream portion of the tray guide in the tray-enter direction is nearer to the convey path than that in the second posture; a first posture-change portion which changes the tray guide from the second to the third posture; and a second posture-change portion which changes the tray guide from the third to the first posture.