Patent ID: 7410167

Claim:
A method for feeding a recoding medium for use in an image recording apparatus including a sheet-feeding path, a feeding device disposed at an upstream side of the sheet-feeding path and having a rotation sensor, a pair of rollers for nipping the recording medium and a recording device disposed at a downstream side of the sheet-feeding path to record an image on the recording medium to be fed, the method comprising the steps of: feeding the recording medium along the sheet-feeding path by a unit feeding amount; detecting an entrance of a rear end of the recording medium into a jumping alarm area; dividing the unit feeding amount into minute divisional feeding amounts such that the recording medium is fed by each minute divisional feeding amount when the rear end of the recording medium enters the jumping alarm area; detecting a jumping amount of the recording medium according to the rotation sensor when a jumping phenomenon occurs in the recording medium; and adjusting the minute divisional feeding amount to cancel the jumping amount.