Image recording apparatus for selectively performing a printer mode and a scanner mode
US5359425A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 24, 1992 |
| Grant date | Oct 25, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 24, 2012 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N1/32496
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An image recording apparatus for selectively performing a document reading mode and an image printing mode, which includes a scanner unit for reading an image from a document sheet, an image forming part for forming a latent image on a photosensitive medium with a light beam, a transfer part for transferring the latent image of the photosensitive medium to a copy sheet as a visible image, a fixing part for producing an image recorded on the copy sheet by fixing the visible image to the copy sheet, a first transporting part for transporting a sheet to a registration roller through a common sheet transport path, the common sheet transport path usable for transporting either a document sheet passed through the scanner unit or a copy sheet fed by a paper feeding cassette, and a second transporting part for transporting a sheet from the registration roller to a paper ejection part through a second sheet transport path. In this image recording apparatus, the image forming part, the transfer part and the fixing part are not driven when a document sheet is transported through the second sheet transport path during the document reading operation.
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