Facsimile and static presentation processing – Facsimile – Recording apparatus
Patent
1992-09-24
1994-10-25
Reinhart, Mark J.
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Facsimile
Recording apparatus
346160, H04N 121
Patent
active
053594258
ABSTRACT:
An image recording apparatus for selectively performing a document reading mode and an image printing mode, which includes a scanner unit for reading an image from a document sheet, an image forming part for forming a latent image on a photosensitive medium with a light beam, a transfer part for transferring the latent image of the photosensitive medium to a copy sheet as a visible image, a fixing part for producing an image recorded on the copy sheet by fixing the visible image to the copy sheet, a first transporting part for transporting a sheet to a registration roller through a common sheet transport path, the common sheet transport path usable for transporting either a document sheet passed through the scanner unit or a copy sheet fed by a paper feeding cassette, and a second transporting part for transporting a sheet from the registration roller to a paper ejection part through a second sheet transport path. In this image recording apparatus, the image forming part, the transfer part and the fixing part are not driven when a document sheet is transported through the second sheet transport path during the document reading operation.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5038228 (1991-08-01), Takada
patent: 5095370 (1992-03-01), Takada et al.
Maehara Hidejirou
Nukaya Yasuyuki
Reinhart Mark J.
Ricoh & Company, Ltd.
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