Patent ID: 6493016
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An image recording apparatus in which ink transfer from a donor sheet to an image-receiving sheet is carried out, the donor sheet having a larger size than the image-receiving sheet, the image recording apparatus comprising:a rotating drum around which the image-receiving sheet and the donor sheet are laminatingly wound in this order; a squeeze roller which is disposed to releasably press the donor sheet and the image-receiving sheet against the drum and has a middle portion in an axial direction of the squeeze roller having a substantially constant radius and a smaller diameter portion at at least one end thereof in the axial direction; wherein the drum includes a first protruding mound portion which, when the image-receiving sheet and the donor sheet are wound around the drum, is spaced apart from an edge of the image-receiving sheet substantially by a predetermined distance and is in surface-contact with the donor sheet, and when the squeeze roller is pressing the donor sheet and the image-receiving sheet against the drum, a boundary portion between the smaller diameter portion and the middle portion of the squeeze roller is disposed at a side of the first mound portion at which the image-receiving sheet is disposed.