US 11,655,115 B2
Image recording apparatus
Shohei Ichikawa, Niwa-gun (JP); Tsuyoshi Ito, Nagoya (JP); Masatake Sato, Ichinomiya (JP); Keisuke Wakakusa, Nagoya (JP); and Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Tajimi (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Mar. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/206,990.
Claims priority of application No. JP2020-052680 (JP), filed on Mar. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0300701 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. B65H 7/08 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 11/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 7/08 (2013.01) [B65H 5/068 (2013.01); B41J 11/0095 (2013.01); B41J 11/04 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image recording apparatus comprising:
a recording unit configured to perform recording on a sheet-shaped recording medium;
an accommodation part configured to accommodate therein a plurality of recording media and having a support surface on which the plurality of the recording media is supported in a stacked manner, the plurality of the recording media including a first recording medium and a second recording medium, and the first recording medium being stacked on the second recording medium;
a conveying path along which the plurality of the recording media is conveyed from the accommodation part to the recording unit;
a feeder roller pivotally supported so as to contact the plurality of the recording media accommodated in the accommodation part from above, the feeder roller being configured to sequentially feed the plurality of recording media in a conveying direction of the plurality of the recording media;
a reversing path configuring at least a part of the conveying path between the accommodation part and the recording unit, the reversing path being configured to convey the plurality of the recording media while reversing front and rear surfaces of the plurality of the recording media;
a recording medium detection unit located above the support surface and between the feeder roller and a downstream end of the support surface in the conveying direction, the recording medium detection unit being configured to detect the plurality of the recording media fed by the feeder roller; and
a controller configured to control the feeder roller so as to feed the second recording medium in a manner that a front end portion of the second recording medium overlaps a rear end portion of the first recording medium, the control being performed by the controller in response to the recording medium detection unit detecting the rear end portion of the first recording medium fed by the feeder roller.