Patent ID: 7661789

Claim:
An image recording unit which records an image by ejecting ink drops to a recording medium; a conveyance unit which conveys the recording medium in a conveying direction at a time of image recording; a recording medium feeding unit which feeds the recording medium to the conveyance unit, the recording medium feeding unit being located on an upstream side of the image recording unit in the conveying direction; and a particulate dust preventing unit which includes a partitioning structure that partitions space in the image recording apparatus into an image recording region in which image recording is carried out by the image recording unit, and a paper feeding region in which the recording medium is fed by the recording medium feeding unit such that the partitioning structure prevents particulate dust from entering the image recording region from the paper feeding region; wherein the partitioning structure comprises a partition plate, and the partition plate overlaps a member of the conveyance unit that provides driving force to the recording medium at one of an upstream side and a downstream side of the member, which respect to a center of the member, in a conveying direction of the recording medium by the conveyance unit; and wherein the partitioning structure is located on the upstream side of the image recording unit in the conveying direction wherein the partition plate is spaced apart from the member of the conveyance unit by a predetermined interval.