Patent ID: 9259946
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: B41J,B65H

Claim Text:
1. An ink-jet recording apparatus comprising: a housing defining a first transport path through which a sheet is conveyed in a first transporting direction and a second transport path through which the sheet is conveyed in a second transporting direction, the first transport path and the second transport path intersecting at a first connection position and a second connection position; a pair of first transporting rollers provided in a first transport path, and configured to nip a sheet at a nip point between the pair of first transporting rollers and transport the sheet in the first transporting direction; a recording head provided downstream of the nip point in the first transporting direction, and including nozzles configured to eject ink droplets; a contact portion comprising a protrusion that is configured to contact the sheet from above, the contact portion being disposed along the first transport path between the nip point and the nozzle in the first transporting direction; a pair of second transporting rollers provided downstream, in the first transporting direction, of the second connection position along the first transport path, and configured to transport the sheet in the first transporting direction, or in the second transporting direction toward the second transport path via the second connection position; and a pair of third transporting rollers provided in the second transport path, and configured to transport the sheet in the second transporting direction toward the first connection position by nipping the sheet therebetween; wherein the first connection position between the second transport path and the first transport path is located upstream of the nip point between the pair of first transporting rollers in the first transporting direction, wherein the second connection position between the second transport path and the first transport path is located downstream of recording head in the first transporting direction, and