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US 8,801,138 B2Granted
Liquid ejection apparatus having fan for cooling the liquid ejecting head
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsYasuhide Torigoe, Hiroshi Miyazawa, Takayuki Iijima
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Abstract
A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head that ejects a liquid onto a target; a carriage that is moved to scan in a direction perpendicular to a transportation direction of the target with the liquid ejecting head being mounted on the carriage; a fan that blows gas toward a scanning area of the carriage; and a partition member that is positioned so as to separate the scanning area of the carriage from the fan and block the gas blown from the fan toward the scanning area of the carriage.
Claims4
A liquid ejection apparatus comprising:
- a liquid ejecting head that ejects a liquid onto a target;
- a carriage that is moved to scan in a direction perpendicular to a transportation direction of the target with the liquid ejecting head being mounted on the carriage;
- a fan that blows gas toward a scanning area of the carriage;
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- a partition member that is disposed so as to separate the scanning area of the carriage from the fan and block the gas blown from the fan toward the scanning area of the carriage,
- wherein the partition member has a cooling fin that is positioned on a flow path of the gas blown from the fan and wherein the cooling fin is formed by cutting and bending up from the partition member which is plate-shaped.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.