Patent ID: 8128198

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a first carriage including a recording head; a second carriage including one or more electrical components, the first carriage and the second carriage being electrically connected via a flexible cable; an endless belt member extended between a driving pulley and a driven pulley, the first carriage and the second carriage being connected to the endless belt member at diagonally opposed positions; a driving source configured to rotate the driving pulley, moving the belt member to move the first carriage and the second carriages in opposite directions; a controller that controls recording operations of the image forming apparatus; and a second cable including another signal-transmission member electrically connecting an electrical component amongst the one or more electrical components on the second carriage to the controller, the controller being electrically connected to the recording head on the first carriage via the second cable and the first flexible cable, wherein the electrical component on the second carriage is a signal processing circuit that outputs one or more signals through the second cable to the controller.