Patent ID: 8752929

Claim:
An image recording apparatus, comprising: a supply tray configured to support a sheet; a supply roller rotatable to supply the sheet supported by the supply tray to a conveyance path; a conveyor roller rotatable to convey, in a conveying direction, the sheet supplied by the supply roller to the conveyance path; a manual tray configured to support a sheet that is to be supplied to a manual-tray path merged with the conveyance path at a position located upstream of the conveyor roller in the conveying direction; a recording device disposed downstream of the conveyor roller in the conveying direction and configured to record an image on the sheet; a motor rotatable to produce a driving power, wherein the motor is configured to produce a forward rotational driving power when the motor rotates forwardly and produce a reverse rotational driving power when the motor rotates reversely; a supply driving power transmitter configured not to transmit the forward rotational driving power to the supply roller and configured to transmit the reverse rotational driving power to the supply roller to cause the supply roller to supply the sheet supported by the supply tray; a conveyance driving power transmitter configured to transmit the forward rotational driving power to the conveyor roller to cause the conveyor roller to rotate in a first rotational direction to convey the sheet in the conveying direction, the conveyance driving power transmitter being configured to transmit the reverse rotational driving power to the conveyor roller to cause the conveyor roller to rotate in a second rotational direction that is reverse to the first rotational direction; a switcher configured to switch between a first power transmission state in which the driving power is transmitted from the motor to the supply driving power transmitter and a second power transmission state in which the driving power is not transmitted from the motor to the supply driving power transmitter; and a controller configured to, when an image is to be recorded on the sheet supported by the manual tray by the recording device and when the switcher is in the first power transmission state, execute a switching control for switching the switcher from the first power transmission state to the second power transmission state and thereafter execute a reverse-rotation control for causing the motor to rotate reversely to rotate the conveyor roller in the second rotational direction.