Image recording apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorEtsuyasu KONDO
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus includes a recording section having a head holding member holding a plurality of head units ejecting ink, and a position adjusting mechanism including position adjusting members, each being provided for each head unit, for adjusting a position of the head unit relative to the head holding member according to movement thereof, a driving mechanism for generating a force moving the position adjusting member, and transmission mechanisms, each being provided for each position adjusting member, for transmitting the force generated by the driving mechanism to the position adjusting member, the driving mechanism selecting the transmission mechanism to be transmitted with the force from the plurality of transmission mechanisms to supply the force to only the selected transmission mechanism.
Claims20
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording section having a head holding member holding a plurality of head units ejects inks;
- and
- a position adjusting mechanism including position adjusting members, each being provided for each head unit, for adjusting a position of the head unit relative to the head holding member according to movement thereof, a driving mechanism for generating a force which moves the position adjusting member, and transmission mechanisms, each being provided for each position adjusting member, for transmitting the force generated by the driving mechanism to the position adjusting member,
- the driving mechanism selecting the transmission mechanism to be transmitted with the force from the plurality of transmission mechanisms to supply the force to only the selected transmission mechanism.
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording section including a head holding member having a plurality of head units ejecting ink arranged in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of a recording medium;
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- a position adjusting mechanism including position adjusting members, each being provided for each head unit, for adjusting a position of the head unit relative to the head holding member according to movement thereof, a driving mechanism for generating a force which moves the position adjusting member, and transmission mechanisms, each being provided for each position adjusting member, for transmitting the force generated by the driving mechanism to the position adjusting member,
- the driving mechanism selecting the transmission mechanism to be transmitted with the force from the plurality of transmission mechanisms according to movement in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of the recording medium, thereby supplying the force to only the selected transmission mechanism.
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording section including a head holding member having a plurality of head units ejecting ink arranged in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of a recording medium;
- a position adjusting mechanism including position adjusting members, each being provided for each head unit, for adjusting a position of the head unit relative to the head holding member according to movement thereof, a driving mechanism for generating a force which moves the position adjusting member, and transmission mechanisms, each being provided for each position adjusting member, for transmitting the force generated by the driving mechanism to the position adjusting member;
- an imaging section which images an image recorded on the recording medium by the recording section;
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- a control section calculating adjusting amounts of the head units from the image imaged by the imaging section to control the position adjusting mechanism based upon the calculated adjusting amounts, wherein
- the driving mechanism selects the transmission mechanism to be transmitted with the force from the plurality of transmission mechanisms according to movement in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction of the recording medium based upon the adjusting amounts calculated by the control section, thereby supplying the force to only the selected transmission mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.