Patent ID: 8147157
Filing Date: 2012-04-03
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An integrated cartridge configured to contain recording sheets and be detachably mountable in a main body of a recording apparatus, the integrated cartridge comprising: a recording sheet container having a recording sheet container compartment that is configured to contain the recording sheets; and an ink sheet container integrated with the recording sheet container, wherein the ink sheet container includes an ink sheet having ink, an ink cartridge frame, a first bobbin supported to the ink cartridge frame, and a second bobbin supported to the ink cartridge frame, wherein the ink sheet is wound about the first bobbin and the second bobbin is configured to rotate to pull the ink sheet from the first bobbin, wherein the first bobbin and the second bobbin are spaced apart to allow ink from that portion of the ink sheet residing between the first bobbin and the second bobbin to be transferred onto a recording sheet conveyed from the recording sheet container and positioned between the first bobbin and the second bobbin in an image forming section, wherein the recording sheets are contained in the recording sheet container so that an orientation of recording sheets in the recording sheet container is generally perpendicular to an orientation of a recording sheet positioned in the image forming section, wherein the recording sheets is turned around an axis parallel to a normal line to the recording surface of the recording sheet when being conveyed from the recording sheet container to the image forming section, wherein the ink sheet container includes a length and a width, wherein the width of the ink sheet container is measured parallel to the first bobbin axis, wherein the recording sheet container includes a length and a width, wherein the width of the recording sheet container is measured parallel to the first bobbin, and wherein the width of the ink sheet container is smaller than the width of the recording sheet container.