Carriage and recording apparatus provided therewith
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorTakayuki SHIOTA
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Abstract
A carriage mounting a head unit having a recording head thereon and reciprocatably supported on a recording apparatus, the carriage includes: a displacement mechanism displacing the head unit in the direction intersecting with a head surface of the recording head; and a tilt angle adjusting mechanism to adjust a tilt angle of the head unit in a rotation direction along the head surface. The tilt angle adjusting mechanism has a slidably contacting member slidably contacting with the head unit in the case of the displacement of the head unit to define the tilt angle of the head unit, and has an adjusting eccentric cam engaging with the slidably contacting member to adjust the position of the slidably contacting member.
Claims5
A carriage mounting a head unit having a recording head thereon and reciprocatably supported by a recording apparatus, the carriage comprising:
- a displacement mechanism displacing the head unit in the direction intersecting with a head surface of the recording head;
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- a tilt angle adjusting mechanism to adjust the tilt angle of the head unit in a rotation direction along the head surface,
- wherein the tilt angle adjusting mechanism has a slidably contacting member slidably contacting with the head unit in the case of the displacement of the head unit to define the tilt angle of the head unit, and has an adjusting eccentric cam engaging with the slidably contacting member to adjust the position of the slidably contacting member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.