Head cap and image recording apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasunori KOBAYASHI
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Abstract
A head cap, including: a bottom plate portion having a bottom surface facing a liquid-droplets ejecting surface of a liquid-droplets ejecting head; a projecting portion which functions as a side wall, which extends from the bottom plate portion so as to define a recessed portion with the bottom plate portion, and whose distal end contacts with a surrounding of a liquid-droplets ejecting area formed in the liquid-droplets ejecting surface so as to enclose the liquid-droplets ejecting area; and an inner plate which is disposed along the projecting portion so as to cover an inner wall surface of the projecting portion.
Claims15
A head cap, comprising:
- a bottom plate portion having a bottom surface facing a liquid-droplets ejecting surface of a liquid-droplets ejecting head;
- a projecting portion which functions as a side wall, which extends from the bottom plate portion so as to define a recessed portion with the bottom plate portion, and whose distal end contacts with a surrounding of a liquid-droplets ejecting area formed in the liquid-droplets ejecting surface so as to enclose the liquid-droplets ejecting area;
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- an inner plate which is disposed along the projecting portion so as to cover an inner wall surface of the projecting portion.
An image recording apparatus, comprising:
- a liquid-droplets ejecting head including a liquid-droplets ejecting surface in which a liquid-droplets ejecting area is formed;
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- a head cap including (a) a bottom plate portion having a bottom surface facing the liquid-droplets ejecting surface of the liquid-droplets ejecting head and (b) a projecting portion which functions as a side wall, which extends from the bottom plate portion so as to define a recessed portion with the bottom plate portion, and whose distal end contacts with a surrounding of the liquid-droplets ejecting area formed in the liquid-droplets ejecting surface so as to enclose the liquid-droplets ejecting area,
- wherein the head cap further includes an inner plate which is disposed along the projecting portion so as to cover an inner wall surface of the projecting portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.