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US 10,377,129 B2Granted
Printing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorYugo Ishikawa
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes an ejecting head that ejects ink droplets onto a surface of a printing medium (paper roll), a carriage on which the ejecting head is mounted, a platen that faces the ejecting head and supports the printing medium, a detector plate provided in the carriage and is displaced in accordance with an external force applied in response to contact with the printing medium, and an encoder that measures a displacement amount of the detector plate and outputs an output value corresponding to the displacement amount.
Claims5
A printing apparatus comprising:
- an ejecting head that ejects droplets onto a surface of a printing medium;
- a carriage on which the ejecting head is mounted;
- a printing medium supporting section that faces the ejecting head and supports the printing medium;
- a displacement section that is provided in the carriage and is displaced in accordance with an external force applied in response to contact with the printing medium;
- an encoder that measures a displacement amount of the displacement section and outputs an output value corresponding to the displacement amount;
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- a control section that counts a number of contacts between the displacement section and the printing medium and stores the number of contacts.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.