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US 10,207,526 B2Granted
Recording apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKazutoshi Matsuzaki, Tetsuya Miyagawa, Shota Mizuno
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Abstract
A recording apparatus has a carriage in which a head unit including a recording head is disposed. By turning the head unit within the carriage about a pivot that extends in a direction intersecting a head surface, the angle of the recording head is adjusted while maintaining good contact between a data storage unit included in an ink cartridge and a contact terminal included in the carriage.
Claims6
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a carriage guided by a guiding device and being configured to move in a reciprocating movement direction;
- a head unit held by the carriage and including a recording head that records onto a medium;
- a contact terminal included in the carriage and configured to be brought into contact with a data storage unit that is mounted on a liquid cartridge that is installable into to the carriage, the data storage unit configured to store information about the liquid cartridge;
- a positioner portion included in the carriage and configured to maintain contact between the contact terminal and the data storage unit while the liquid cartridge is installed into the carriage;
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- an adjustment mechanism that adjusts the position of the head unit with respect to the carriage, within a range in which the receiving portion included in the head unit can be connected to a supply portion included in the liquid cartridge, by turning the head unit about a pivot that extends in a direction intersecting a head surface of the recording head, the head surface having a nozzle for ejecting liquid,
- wherein the adjustment mechanism includes a turning device formed as a disc-shaped eccentric cam in which a radial distance between a rotation center and a peripheral surface of the cam varies in a peripheral direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.