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Patent No.:

US 9617109 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 26, 2015

Image recording apparatus

Applicant:

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;

Inventors:

Yasuhira Ota, Yatomi, JP;

Noriyuki Kawamata, Nagoya, JP;

Motohiro Okamura, Nagoya, JP;

Assignee:

BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken, JP;

Attorney:

Merchant & Gould P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Michael McCullough

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 31/00 (2006.01); B65H 7/02 (2006.01); B65H 29/14 (2006.01); B65H 31/02 (2006.01); B65H 31/20 (2006.01); B65H 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 31/00 (2013.01); B65H 1/04 (2013.01); B65H 7/02 (2013.01); B65H 29/14 (2013.01); B65H 31/02 (2013.01); B65H 31/20 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4212 (2013.01); B65H 2402/46 (2013.01); B65H 2402/546 (2013.01); B65H 2405/115 (2013.01); B65H 2405/1117 (2013.01); B65H 2405/1124 (2013.01); B65H 2405/11172 (2013.01); B65H 2405/121 (2013.01); B65H 2405/324 (2013.01); B65H 2405/33 (2013.01); B65H 2511/20 (2013.01); B65H 2511/51 (2013.01); B65H 2511/515 (2013.01); B65H 2801/12 (2013.01); B65H 2801/15 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image recording apparatus includes: a casing; a sheet-feeder tray having a supporting surface for supporting a sheet-shaped recording medium; a recording unit which is configured to record an image on the recording medium fed from the sheet-feeder tray; a discharge roller pair configured to discharge, from the casing, the recording medium on which the image has been recorded by the recording unit; an opening-closing member which is provided on the downstream of the discharge roller pair in a direction in which the recording medium is discharged by the discharge roller pair and is rotatable between a first position where a discharging slot of the recording medium discharged by the discharge roller pair is closed and a second position where the discharging slot is open; and a restricting mechanism configured to restrict the rotation of the opening-closing member from the second position to the first position.

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