US 12,404,140 B2
Image recording apparatus
Masatomo Yamaguchi, Inazawa (JP); and Yuya Tatematsu, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Mar. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/181,028.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-037976 (JP), filed on Mar. 11, 2022; and application No. 2023-016784 (JP), filed on Feb. 7, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2023/0286771 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 35/06 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 35/06 (2013.01) [B65H 2402/441 (2013.01); B65H 2407/10 (2013.01); B65H 2601/11 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
7. An image recording apparatus comprising:
a tray configured to accommodate a sheet-like medium;
a conveyer configured to convey the sheet-like medium accommodated in the tray along a conveying path in a conveying direction;
a recorder configured to record an image on the sheet-like medium conveyed by the conveyer; and
a cutter unit including one or more cutters and configured to cut the sheet-like medium in the conveying path,
wherein the conveyer includes:
a feeder configured to feed the sheet-like medium accommodated in the tray in a feeding direction toward the conveying path; and
a pair of path members opposing to each other across the conveying path,
wherein the pair of path members define a portion of the conveying path between the tray and the cutter unit and include a first path member disposed upstream of the portion of the conveying path between the tray and the cutter unit in the feeding direction, and a second path member disposed downstream of the portion of the conveying path between the tray and the cutter unit in the feeding direction,
wherein an angle on an acute side between the first path member and the portion of the conveying path between the tray and the cutter unit is larger than an angle on an acute side between the second path member and the portion of the conveying path between the tray and the cutter unit.