Patent ID: 7524049

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a plurality of feeder rollers including a drive roller; an endless feeder belt which is wound around the feeder rollers in order to be circulated around the feeder rollers by operation of the drive roller such that a path of circulation of the feeder belt includes a feeder-belt straight travel zone at which the feeder belt travels straight, the feeder belt feeding a recording medium; a plurality of detection rollers; an endless detection belt which is a member formed separately from the feeder belt and wound around the detection rollers such that the detection belt is circulated with the feeder belt by contacting the circulated feeder belt at at least a part of the feeder-belt straight travel zone which part constitutes an overlapping zone, the detection belt having a plurality of detection marks arranged at constant intervals along an extending direction of the detection belt; at least one pair of nip rollers, each pair cooperating with each other to nip the feeder belt and the detection belt together, at at least a part of the overlapping zone; a detecting device which detects the detection marks in the detection belt; and a recording portion which records an image on the recording medium as fed by the feeder belt, according to a result of the detection by the detecting device.