Recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsFumie Kameyama, Motoyuki Taguchi, Akira Kida, Nozomu Nishiberi, Noriyuki Sugiyama, Masayuki Imano
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Abstract
A recording apparatus includes a head set lever which fixes a head cartridge to a carriage section. The head set lever is movable between a first position at which the head cartridge is fixed to the carriage section and a second position at which mounting and removal of the head cartridge on and from the carriage section is permitted. Attachment of an ink tank to the head cartridge is inhibited when the head cartridge is mounted on the carriage section and the head set lever is arranged at a position other than the first position.
Claims6
A recording apparatus comprising:
- an ink tank configured to contain ink;
- a head cartridge, the ink tank being detachably attached to the head cartridge;
- a carriage, the head cartridge being detachably attached to the carriage;
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- a fixing unit being movable between a first position at which the head cartridge is attached to the carriage and an attachment of the ink tank to the head cartridge is permitted and a second position at which the attachment of the ink tank to the head cartridge is inhibited,
- wherein a portion of the fixing unit is located within an attachment locus in which the ink tank is attached to the head cartridge in a case where the fixing unit is arranged at the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.