发明名称 Recording Apparatus
摘要 In a recording apparatus, a first path and a module path of a first recording module for conveying and recording of a recording medium are formed such that a distance between the most downstream ejection opening and a joining position of the first path and a second path is less than a length of a recording medium. The controller executes: a first determination processing for determining whether there is a recording medium which should be conveyed through a join determination position before the recording medium having been supplied to the first recording module; and a wait processing for causing the recording medium having been supplied to the first recording module to wait in a state in which its leading edge is located upstream of the most upstream shared conveyor on the first path, when the controller determines that there is a recording medium.
申请公布号 US2015183245(A1) 申请公布日期 2015.07.02
申请号 US201414580725 申请日期 2014.12.23
申请人 Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 发明人 SHIKAMA Yasuhito;Terada Kohei;Yamamoto Shinya;Kobayashi Akihito
分类号 B41J13/00 主分类号 B41J13/00
代理机构 代理人
主权项 1. A recording apparatus, comprising: a plurality of recording modules each comprising (i) a head formed with a plurality of ejection openings and configured to eject liquid from the plurality of ejection openings and (ii) an individual conveyor configured to convey a recording medium along a module path, the plurality of recording modules comprising a first recording module and a second recording module different from the first recording module; a receiver configured to receive the recording medium on which recording is performed by any one of the plurality of recording modules; a first path through which the recording medium is to be conveyed from the module path of the first recording module toward the receiver; a second path through which the recording medium is to be conveyed from the module path of the second recording module toward the receiver, the second path comprising, at a downstream portion thereof, a shared portion extending to the receiver from a joining position at which the first path and the second path merge with each other; at least one shared conveyor configured to convey the recording medium in the shared portion; and a controller configured to control the plurality of recording modules, the controller being configured to store information about a join determination position located upstream of a most upstream shared conveyor of the at least one shared conveyor, the first path and the module path of the first recording module being formed such that a distance between a position opposite a most downstream one of the plurality of ejection openings formed in the first recording module and the joining position along the first path and the module path of the first recording module is less than a length of a specific recording medium along the module path of the first recording module, the specific recording medium being one of recording media receivable in the receiver, the controller being configured to: execute a first determination processing in which the controller determines whether there is a recording medium which should be conveyed through the join determination position before the recording medium having been supplied to the first recording module; andexecute a wait processing in which the controller causes the recording medium having been supplied to the first recording module to wait in a state in which the leading edge of the recording medium is located on the first path at a position located upstream of the most upstream shared conveyor, when the controller determines, in the first determination processing, that there is a recording medium which should be conveyed through the join determination position before the recording medium having been supplied to the first recording module.
地址 Nagoya-shi JP