US 7,594,720 B2
Recording apparatus
Kazuhisa Kawakami, Yokohama (Japan); Shinya Sonoda, Yokohama (Japan); Tetsuhiro Nitta, Yokohama (Japan); Toshihide Wada, Yokohama (Japan); and Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kawasaki (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jun. 07, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/145,981.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-175115 (JP), filed on Jun. 14, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0280684 A1, Dec. 22, 2005
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01); B41J 2/01 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 347—104  [347/42; 358/1.15; 358/296; 399/107; 399/110; 399/119; 399/306; 399/385; 399/91; 399/400; 399/401; 400/624] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording apparatus in which a recording medium is fed from one side of the recording apparatus, and the recording medium on which a recording head has recorded is ejected from the one side of the recording apparatus, the recording apparatus comprising:
a feed tray on which the recording medium is stacked and which is rotated to move between an in-use position and a stowed position;
an eject tray on which the recording medium on which the recording head has recorded is stacked, and which moves between an in-use position and a stowed position in a substantially horizontal direction, wherein said eject tray is arranged over said feed tray when said eject tray is in the in-use position; and
an eject tray holding portion which guides a movement of said eject tray in a substantially horizontal direction,
wherein when said eject tray is situated in the stowed position, said eject tray is not arranged over said feed tray, and said eject tray does not prevent the recording medium from being ejected.