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US 11,230,106 B2Granted
Printing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsJunya Kato, Akira Mashima
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Abstract
A printing apparatus is a serial-type printing apparatus including a discharge head configured to discharge a liquid (ink) toward a medium, a carriage configured to reciprocate in a scanning direction in a state of supporting the discharge head, and a platen configured to guide transport of the medium, and a maintenance unit is installed sandwiching the platen from both sides in the scanning direction and configured to maintain performance of the discharge head.
Claims6
A printing apparatus that is a serial-type printing apparatus, comprising:
- a discharge head configured to discharge a liquid toward a medium;
- a carriage configured to reciprocate in a scanning direction in a state of supporting the discharge head;
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- a platen configured to guide transport of the medium, wherein
- a maintenance unit is installed sandwiching the platen from both sides thereof in the scanning direction and configured to maintain performance of the discharge head,
- wherein a scanning start region that serves as a base point of scanning of the carriage is set on one side the maintenance unit sandwiching the platen in the scanning direction,
- wherein the maintenance unit includes
- a capping unit configured to cover the discharge head to suppress drying of the liquid, installed on one of the sides sandwiching the platen,
- a wiping unit configured to wipe the liquid adhering to the discharge head, installed on the other of the sides sandwiching the platen, and
- a flushing reception unit configured to receives the liquid discharged from the discharge head by performing a flushing operation, installed between the scanning start region and the platen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.