Liquid ejecting apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Nakamura, Izumi Nozawa
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Abstract
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a first tank that stores liquid to be supplied to a liquid ejecting head, a second tank that receives liquid that has not been ejected by the liquid ejecting head, a circulation path that circulates liquid. The second tank separately has a first opening that communicates with a second pressure adjusting unit that can depressurize the second tank and a second opening that communicates with a second atmosphere opening valve that switches the second tank between a sealed state and an atmosphere opening state. The second opening is arranged at a position lower than the first opening in a vertical direction.
Claims13
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:
- a liquid ejecting head that ejects liquid from nozzles formed in a nozzle surface;
- a recording unit having a first tank that stores the liquid to be supplied to the liquid ejecting head, a second tank which receives the liquid that has not been ejected by the liquid ejecting head and whose lower surface is arranged vertically lower than the nozzle surface, a circulation path that circulates the liquid among the first tank, the liquid ejecting head, and the second tank, and a pump that sends the liquid from the second tank to the first tank;
- a first atmosphere opening valve that switches the first tank between a sealed state and an atmosphere opening state;
- a second atmosphere opening valve that switches the second tank between a sealed state and an atmosphere opening state;
- a first pressure adjusting unit that can pressurize the first tank;
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- a second pressure adjusting unit that can depressurize the second tank,
- wherein the second tank has a first opening that communicates with the second pressure adjusting unit and a second opening that communicates with the second atmosphere opening valve, and
- the second opening is arranged at a position lower than the first opening in a vertical direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.