Patent ID: 9592681
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B41J,B65H

Claim:
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; a pair of first transporting rollers provided in the first transport path, and which 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 portion provided at a downstream of the nip point in the first transporting direction in the first transport path, and including nozzles configured to eject ink droplets; a platen provided below the recording portion in the first transport path; a contact member including a contact portion configured to contact a upper surface of the sheet, wherein at least a part of the contact portion is positioned at a gap between the recording portion and the platen; and a pair of second transporting rollers provided in the second transport path, the pair of second transporting rollers configured to nip the sheet at a nip point between the pair of second transporting rollers and to transport the sheet in the second transporting direction, wherein the second transport path is further defined by a projection portion projecting into the second transport path, the second transport path intersecting the first transport path at a first connection position and a second connection position, wherein the first connection position is located upstream of the nip point between the pair of first transporting rollers in the first transporting direction, wherein the second connection position is located downstream of the recording portion in the first transporting direction, wherein the second transport path extends toward the first connection position by passing through below the platen from the second connection position, and wherein the second transport path is a sheet return path through which the sheet is returned to the contact portion and the recording portion, wherein, when viewed in a rotational axis direction of the second transporting rollers, the contact member does not extend, in the first transporting direction, past an imaginary line intersecting the nip point of the second transporting rollers and perpendicular to the first transporting direction, and wherein the nip point of the second transporting rollers is disposed closer to the projection portion than to the first connection position in the second transporting direction.