Printing device having guide channel for guiding liquid discharged from housing toward outside of the printing device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTomohiro Wada, Yusuke Ikemoto
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Abstract
A printing device includes a printing head, a housing, a cover, and a guide channel. The housing accommodates therein the printing head. The housing includes a bottom wall formed with a communication hole through which liquid that has entered the housing is to be discharged to an outside of the housing. The cover covers the communication hole in the bottom wall. The guide channel is positioned between the bottom wall and the cover and extends along the bottom wall. The guide channel is in communication with the communication hole and is configured to guide the liquid discharged through the communication hole toward an outside of the printing device.
Claims15
A printing device comprising:
- a printing head configured to perform printing on a printing medium;
- a housing accommodating therein the printing head, the housing having a bottom wall formed with a communication hole through which liquid that has entered the housing is to be discharged to an outside of the housing;
- a cover covering the communication hole in the bottom wall;
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- a guide channel positioned between the bottom wall and the cover and extending along the bottom wall, the guide channel being in communication with the communication hole and being configured to guide the liquid discharged through the communication hole toward an outside of the printing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.