US 7,559,641 B2
Image recording apparatus
Toru Nishida, Ebina (Japan); Hiroaki Satoh, Ebina (Japan); Akira Mihara, Ebina (Japan); Kiyoshi Hosoi, Ebina (Japan); Satoshi Mohri, Ebina (Japan); Toyoji Ushioda, Ebina (Japan); Takeshi Zengo, Ebina (Japan); and Koichi Saitoh, Ebina (Japan)
Assigned to Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Aug. 15, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/203,874.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-077908 (JP), filed on Mar. 17, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0209153 A1, Sep. 21, 2006
Int. Cl. B41J 2/01 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 347—104 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium based on image information, comprising:
a liquid droplet ejecting head having an ejection region where liquid-ejecting nozzles are provided;
a first conveyor unit that conveys the recording medium through a recording area which faces the ejecting region and in which an image is recorded on one side of the recording medium;
a paper discharge section to which the recording medium is fed from the first conveyor unit;
a plurality of holding units comprising attracting and supporting members, each holding unit of which receives the one-side-recorded recording medium fed from the first conveyor unit at a receiving position, attaches a non-recorded side of the one-side-recorded recording medium and holds the recording medium by attracting the recording medium, and is aligned each other for substantially vertical direction;
a moving unit comprising a movement mechanism that moves each of the plurality of holding units substantially vertically between the receiving position and a feeding position;
a belt that is circulated vertically in response to movement of the movement mechanism;
a moveable step portion that is mounted to the belt and supports free ends of the attracting and supporting members; and
a second conveyor unit that receives the one-side-recorded recording medium from one of the plurality of holding units positioned at the feeding position and feeds the recording medium to the first conveyor unit so that non-recorded side of the one-side-recorded recording medium faces the ejecting region in the recording area.