Patent ID: 7275882

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising: a first guide member disposed at an upstream side in a transportation direction of a recording medium, the first guide member having a substantially horizontal upper surface that includes a first sliding surface; a second guide member disposed at a downstream side in the transportation direction, the second guide member having a substantially horizontal upper surface that includes another first sliding surface; and a carriage on which a recording head capable of recording an image on the recording medium is mounted and which reciprocates in a main scanning direction, the carriage being supported by the first sliding surfaces of the first and second guide members which are parallel to a head surface of the recording head, the carriage including first sliding convex parts protruding from a lower surface side thereof and coming in contact with the first sliding surfaces of the first and second guide members, and a coming-out preventing pawl disposed to hold at least one of the first and second guide members in cooperation with the first sliding convex part; wherein at least one of the first and second guide members includes a notch part at a specified position, and the carriage is detachable from the first and second guide members by causing the coming-out preventing pawl to pass through the notch part.