Patent ID: 8205882

Claim:
A recording apparatus, comprising: a recording head configured to form an image on a recording medium; a conveyor belt configured to convey the recording medium placed thereon in a medium conveyance direction with the recording medium opposed to the recording head; an attraction device which is disposed at a position where the conveyor belt is interposed between the attraction device and the recording head and which includes (a) a first electrode having a plurality of first extending portions each of which extends so as to be longer than the recording head in the medium conveyance direction and (b) a second electrode having a plurality of second extending portions each of which extends so as to be longer than the recording head in the medium conveyance direction, each of the plurality of first extending portions and each of the plurality of second extending portions being alternately arranged in a perpendicular direction that is perpendicular to the medium conveyance direction, the attraction device being configured to permit the conveyor belt to generate an attractive force to attract the recording medium to the conveyor belt by giving mutually different potentials to the first electrode and the second electrode; and, a pressing device including a contact member which has electrical conductivity and which is disposed at a position where the contact member is opposed to respective upstream sections of the plurality of first extending portions and the plurality of second extending portions, which sections are located on an upstream side of the recording head in the medium conveyance direction, the contact member being configured to contact the recording medium placed on the conveyor belt, the pressing device being configured to press the recording medium onto the conveyor belt by the contact member, wherein the contact member extends in the perpendicular direction so as to bridge over at least any adjacent two of the plurality of first extending portions and the plurality of second extending portions.