Image recording apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenji Samoto
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus has a recording head for recording an image on a recording medium, an ink supply source for supplying an ink to the recording head through an ink tube, a carriage for mounting the recording head thereon reciprocating in a primary scanning direction, and first and second guide members for supporting the carriage thereacross and guiding reciprocating movement of the carriage. The apparatus includes a scale provided on the second guide member along the primary scanning direction, a detector provided on the carriage for detecting a reciprocating position of the carriage in corporation with the scale, and a partition disposed in the vicinity of the scale for separating at least a part of the ink tube from the scale.
Claims17
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording head for recording an image on a recording medium;
- an ink supply source for supplying an ink to the recording head through an ink tube;
- a carriage for mounting the recording head thereon, reciprocating in a primary scanning direction;
- first and second guide members for supporting the carriage thereacross and guiding reciprocating movement of the carriage, the second guide members being disposed downstream from the first guide member in a subsidiary scanning direction perpendicular to the primary scanning direction;
- a scale provided on the second guide member along the primary scanning direction;
- a detector provided on the carriage, for detecting a reciprocating position of the carriage in corporation with the scale;
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- a partition disposed in the vicinity of the scale, for separating at least a part of the ink tube from the scale.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.