US 11,738,583 B2
Image recording apparatus
Satoshi Miyase, Nagoya (JP); Yoshinori Osakabe, Seto (JP); Tsuyoshi Kuwayama, Kasugai (JP); Jun Morikawa, Nagoya (JP); Haruka Azechi, Nagoya (JP); Yasuo Ono, Nagoya (JP); and Yuto Chiba, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Sep. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/939,242.
Application 17/939,242 is a continuation of application No. 17/210,968, filed on Mar. 24, 2021, granted, now 11,465,429.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-056705 (JP), filed on Mar. 26, 2020; and application No. 2020-056707 (JP), filed on Mar. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0001719 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 29/13 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 29/13 (2013.01) 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image recording apparatus comprising:
a housing having one end and an other end spaced apart from each other in a particular direction, a first conveyance path for a first sheet being formed in the housing, a second conveyance path for a second sheet being formed in the housing;
a first tray configured to support the first sheet;
a second tray configured to support the second sheet;
a first print engine, the first conveyance path beginning at the first tray and continuing past the first print engine and ending at a first discharge tray, the first conveyance path including a first portion;
a second print engine, the second conveyance path beginning at the second tray and continuing past the second print engine and ending at a second discharge tray, the second conveyance path including a second portion, wherein the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path do not merge;
a first cover configured to:
cover the first portion when the first cover is located at a first closed position, the first closed position being a position at which the first cover is located at the other end of the housing; and
open the first portion by separating from the first closed position;
a second cover configured to:
cover the second portion when the second cover is located at a second closed position, the second cover being located closer to the one end than the first cover is when the first cover is located at the first closed position and the second cover is located at the second closed position, the first portion being formed between the first cover and the second cover when the first cover is located at the first closed position and the second cover is located at the second closed position, the second portion being formed at a side of the second cover facing the one end when the second cover is located at the second closed position; and
open the second portion by separating from the second closed position; and
a roller pair provided at the first conveyance path and at a position not interfering with the second cover, the roller pair being configured to convey the first sheet in a conveyance direction along the first conveyance path.