Liquid ejecting apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKeiji Hara, Isamu Togashi
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Abstract
A liquid ejecting apparatus is provided which can suppress bubbles from remaining in liquid flow paths. The liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head that includes a flow path member in which a plurality of ink flow paths are formed, a head main body to which ink is supplied form the flow path member and which ejects the ink to a recording sheet, and a moving element that causes the head to perform a reciprocating moving motion on the recording sheet in the X direction. In the plurality of ink flow paths, the longest ink flow path has the smallest Y direction component on an XY surface (a horizontal surface) of the plurality of ink flow paths.
Claims6
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:
- a flow path member that includes a plurality of liquid flow paths through which liquid is circulated;
- a liquid ejecting head that includes a head main body to which the liquid is supplied from the flow path member and which ejects the liquid to a recording medium;
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- a moving element that causes the liquid ejecting head to perform a main scan of the recording medium,
- wherein, when a main scanning direction is a first direction, a liquid ejection direction is a third direction, and a direction perpendicular to both the first direction and the third direction is a second direction,
- the plurality of liquid flow paths include substantially horizontal flow paths, and
- a longest one of the horizontal flow paths has a smallest dimension in the second direction from among the horizontal flow paths.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.