US 12,070,936 B2
Image recording apparatus with heating of recording medium on which recording has been performed and with branched conveying path
Takashi Abe, Kanagawa (JP); Tetsuya Ishikawa, Kanagawa (JP); Tsuyoshi Saeki, Kanagawa (JP); Yoshiyuki Kurita, Saitama (JP); and Yumi Mukoyama, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/336,426.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-100439 (JP), filed on Jun. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0379909 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/10 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/0024 (2021.01) [B41J 11/002 (2013.01); B41J 11/0022 (2021.01); B41J 11/007 (2013.01); B41J 13/0036 (2013.01); B41J 13/009 (2013.01); B41J 13/103 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image recording apparatus comprising:
a recording unit, including an ejecting orifice face provided with an ejecting orifice that ejects liquid, that records an image on a recording medium at a recording region by ejecting liquid from the ejecting orifice on the recording medium;
a cap unit that includes a cap for capping the ejecting orifice face by moving toward the ejecting orifice face;
a discharge unit configured to discharge the recording medium on which recording has been performed by the recording unit;
a first conveying path for conveying the recording medium from the recording region to the discharge unit, the first conveying path including a first section which overlaps with the recording unit in a case of being viewed from a horizontal direction;
a heating unit configured to heat the recording medium on which recording has been performed by the recording unit and disposed in the first section;
a second conveying path configured to branch off from the first conveying path at a branching portion between the heating unit and the discharge unit and configured to merge with the first conveying path between the recording region and a stacking unit on the first conveying path; and
an opening/closing unit configured to expose externally the first conveying path at least from the recording region to the heating unit in a case of a maintenance of the first conveyance path,
wherein the recording unit moves between (a) a first position in which the ejecting orifice face faces the recording region and (b) a second position in which the ejecting orifice face is capped by the cap.