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US 6,793,303 B2Granted
Recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasuhiko Ikeda
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Abstract
A recording apparatus is provided with a damper that attenuates vibrations from a driving source and a driving power transmission mechanism when the vibrations are transmitted to a carriage. The damper is structured to make the attenuation effect larger in the direction other than the traveling direction of the carriage so as to attenuate the vibrations from the driving source and the driving power transmission mechanism mainly in the direction other than the traveling direction of the carriage.
Claims11
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a conveying mechanism for conveying a recording material;
- a carriage for holding a recording head portion for recording on the recording material, said carriage being movably provided to reciprocate in a direction intersecting with a direction in which the recording material is conveyed by said conveying mechanism;
- a driving source for generating driving power to enable said carriage to reciprocate;
- a driving power transmission mechanism for transmitting the driving power from said driving source;
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- a damper for attenuating vibrations transmitted to said carriage through said driving power transmission mechanism,
- wherein said damper is structured to make an attenuation effect larger in a direction at right angles to a traveling direction of said carriage than in the traveling direction of said carriage.
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