Patent ID: 7806510

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising: a carriage carrying a recording head for recording an image on a recording medium transported in a predetermined direction; first and second support members, disposed on an upstream side and a downstream side, respectively, in a transport direction of the recording medium, for supporting said carriage slidably by support surfaces thereof facing said recording head, wherein said first and second support members are joined with a pair of side plates extending in the transport direction, and at least one side of said second support member is extended to an outside of said side plate along a moving direction of said carriage; and an endless belt, joined to said carriage, for moving said carriage reciprocally in a direction substantially orthogonal to the transport direction, wherein said carriage comprises a first contact section that comes into contact with the support surface of said first support member, and a second contact section that comes into contact with the support surface of said second support member, and a height position of a joint section of said endless belt and said carriage is at substantially the same height as a position of center of gravity of said carriage.