Printing apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorRie HIGUCHI
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes: a platen having a supporting surface configured to support a recording medium; a liquid droplet jetting head having a nozzle surface on which nozzles are open; a head moving unit configured to move the liquid droplet jetting head in a head movement area including a first area and a second area which is adjacent to the first area; a maintenance mechanism including a cap member configured to be movable in a cap movement area which includes a retracted position and a capping position and to cover the nozzles; a cap moving mechanism configured to move the cap member by utilizing movement of the liquid droplet jetting head form the first area to the second area; and a cap guiding mechanism configured to guide movement of the cap member in the cap movement area in an inclined direction.
Claims6
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a platen configured to support a recording medium;
- a liquid droplet jetting head having a nozzle surface on which nozzles are open, the nozzle surface facing the platen in a first direction orthogonal to the nozzle surface;
- a head moving unit connected to the liquid droplet jetting head configured to move the liquid droplet jetting head in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction;
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- a maintenance mechanism comprising:
- a cap configured to cover the nozzle surface;
- a wiper configured to wipe the nozzle surface;
- a cap moving mechanism that is connected to the cap, and that is configured to move the cap, by transmitting motive power from a driving source to the cap, between a capping position at which the cap comes into close contact with the nozzle surface and a first retracted position at which the cap is separated from the nozzle surface in the first direction;
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- a wiper moving mechanism connected to the wiper configured to move the wiper, by transmitting the motive power from the driving source to the wiper, between a wiping position at which the wiper wipes the nozzle surface and a second retracted position at which the wiper is separated from the nozzle surface in the first direction;
- wherein the maintenance mechanism partially overlaps the platen in the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.