Image recording device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKan Ishikawa
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Abstract
An image recording device includes: a carriage; a recording head mounted on the carriage and discharges ink to form an image on the recording medium; first and second guide plates formed in flat-shape on which the carriage is slidably provided and extend in a main scanning direction to be parallel with each other; a drive motor mounted at one end of the second guide plate; a drive pulley fixed on a drive shaft of the drive motor; a driven pulley disposed on the second guide plate at other end opposite to the one end where the drive motor is mounted; and a timing belt that is wound around a pulley portion of the drive pulley and a pulley portion of the driven pulley, the timing belt being fixedly attached to an attachment portion of the carriage.
Claims19
An image recording device comprising:
- a carriage that moves reciprocally in a main scanning direction that is perpendicular to a sub scanning direction in which a recording medium is transported;
- a recording head mounted on the carriage and discharges ink to form an image on the recording medium;
- first and second guide plates formed in flat-shape on which the carriage is slidably provided and extend in the main scanning direction to be parallel with each other;
- a drive motor mounted at one end of the second guide plate;
- a drive pulley fixed on a drive shaft of the drive motor;
- a driven pulley disposed on the second guide plate at other end opposite to the one end where the drive motor is mounted;
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- a timing belt that is wound around a pulley portion of the drive pulley and a pulley portion of the driven pulley, the timing belt being fixedly attached to an attachment portion of the carriage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.