US 2019/0160825 A1Published application

Liquid ejecting apparatus

AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation

InventorsKazuhisa TAKEDA, Kazuo OTSUKA, Satoshi KAWAMURA

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Abstract

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a carriage unit which is provided with a liquid ejecting head, a liquid storage container which is storing a liquid, a tube which is connected to the carriage unit and which supplies the liquid which is fed from the liquid storage container to the carriage unit, a first driven roller which is provided on a downstream of the liquid ejecting head and which comes into contact with a surface of the medium which faces the liquid ejecting head, and a tube support surface which is positioned closer to a bottom side than the carriage unit in a vertical direction, and supports the tube, in which the tube support surface is at a position which is deviated from the first driven roller in the transport direction of the medium and falls within a height range of the first driven roller in the vertical direction.

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Dependent claims

A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:

a carriage unit which is provided with a liquid ejecting head which ejects a liquid onto a medium, and which moves reciprocally in a scanning direction;
a liquid storage container which is storing the liquid to be ejected from the liquid ejecting head;
a tube which is connected to the carriage unit and which supplies the liquid which is fed from the liquid storage container to the carriage unit;
a first driven roller which is provided on a downstream of the liquid ejecting head in a transport path of the medium and which comes into contact with a surface of the medium which faces the liquid ejecting head;
and
a tube support surface which is positioned closer to a bottom side than the carriage unit in a vertical direction, is provided to extend along the scanning direction of the carriage unit, and supports the tube,
wherein, setting one direction in the scanning directions of the carriage unit to a first direction and the other direction to a second direction, the tube extends along the tube support surface toward the second direction, forms a curved portion which curves vertically upward, turns in the first direction and is connected to the carriage unit, and
wherein the tube support surface is at a position which is deviated from the first driven roller in the transport direction of the medium and falls within a height range of the first driven roller in the vertical direction.

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A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:

a carriage unit which is provided with a liquid ejecting head which ejects a liquid onto a medium, and which moves reciprocally in a scanning direction;
a liquid storage container which is capable of storing the liquid to be ejected from the liquid ejecting head;
a tube which is connected to the carriage unit and which supplies the liquid which is fed from the liquid storage container to the carriage unit;
a tube support surface which is positioned closer to a bottom side than the carriage unit in a vertical direction, is provided to extend along the scanning direction of the carriage unit, and supports the tube;
a curved inversion path which is provided closer to a downstream than the liquid ejecting head in the transport path of the medium and which causes the medium to curve so as to be inverted with a surface of the medium on which recording is recently performed facing an inside;
a discharge roller which discharges the medium which is curved and inverted by the curved inversion path;
and
a medium receiving tray which is inclined to face upward along an discharge direction of the medium by the discharge roller and receives the medium which is discharged by the discharge roller,
wherein, setting one direction in the scanning directions of the carriage unit to a first direction and the other direction to a second direction, the tube extends along the tube support surface toward the second direction, forms a curved portion which curves vertically upward, turns in the first direction and is connected to the carriage unit,
wherein the medium receiving tray is configured to include a first tray which is positioned closer to an upstream in the discharge direction and is provided in a fixed manner, and
wherein a section of the tube which turns in the first direction from the curved portion and is connected to the carriage unit is disposed in an end portion region on a downstream in the discharge direction on a reverse side of the first tray.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.