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Both-side recording apparatus

US7033014B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 15, 2004
Grant dateApr 25, 2006
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Expiry dateApr 15, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41J3/60
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

To enable selective use of a sheet path for sheet inversion and a substantially linear sheet path for a recording medium of a high rigidity, thereby enabling to pass a recording medium of a large thickness or a high rigidity in a simple configuration without an increase in the dimension of the apparatus and in an attached state of a sheet inversion unit. A first sheet path extending from a 21 sheet conveying roller through a sheet inversion unit 2 and returning to the sheet conveying roller, and a second sheet path 131 extending substantially linearly at an upstream side of the sheet conveying roller are provided, a part of the first sheet path and the second sheet path is formed by a common sheet path, and a movable flap 104 for switching the sheet paths is provided in the shared sheet path.

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