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US 10,882,345 B2Granted
Ink-jet recording apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshinori Osakabe, Tomohisa Higuchi
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Abstract
There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus, including: a casing which is box-shaped, and which has an internal space; a recording head arranged in the internal space, and configured to jet ink droplets; a carriage which is movable, and is arranged in the internal space, and on which the recording head is mounted; and a dust-proof portion arranged between a movable space and an exterior of the casing, the movable space being a space, in the internal space, in which the carriage is movable.
Claims13
An ink-jet recording apparatus, comprising:
- a casing which is box-shaped, and which has an internal space;
- a recording head arranged in the internal space, and configured to jet ink droplets;
- a carriage which is movable, and is arranged in the internal space, and on which the recording head is mounted;
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- a dust-proof portion arranged between a movable space and an exterior of the casing, the movable space being a space, in the internal space, in which the carriage is movable,
- wherein the carriage is movable in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction,
- wherein the dust-proof portion is arranged at, at least one of a first arrangement position and a second arrangement position,
- wherein the first arrangement position is located further in the first direction than an end portion of the movable space in the first direction, and is located between the end portion in the first direction and the exterior of the casing, and
- wherein the second arrangement position is located further in the second direction than an end portion of the movable space in the second direction, and is located between the end portion in the second direction and the exterior of the casing.
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An ink-jet recording apparatus, comprising:
- a casing which is box-shaped, and which has an internal space;
- a recording head arranged in the internal space, and configured to jet ink droplets;
- a carriage which is movable, and is arranged in the internal space, and on which the recording head is mounted;
- and
- a dust-proof portion arranged between a movable space and an exterior of the casing, the movable space being a space, in the internal space, in which the carriage is movable,
- wherein the dust-proof portion includes a channel having a labyrinth shape, which connects the movable space and the exterior of the casing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.