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US 8,944,547 B2Granted
Recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorEtsushi Fukunaga
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorEtsushi Fukunaga
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A recording apparatus has a carriage, a carriage rail, a guide rail, an adjusting member and a support base. A first adjusting mechanism displaces the guide rail in a direction crossing the main-scanning direction relatively to the adjusting member and adjusts the position of the guide rail. A second adjusting mechanism displaces the adjusting member in a direction crossing the main-scanning direction relatively to the support base and adjusts the positions of the guide rail and the adjusting member. The first adjusting mechanism has a plurality of guide rail adjusted portions for displacing the guide rail with respect to the adjusting member and the second adjusting mechanism has a plurality of adjusting member adjusted portions for displacing the adjusting member with respect to the support base.
A recording apparatus comprising:
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Actions or mechanisms not otherwise provided for: bodily-movable mechanisms for print heads or carriages movable towards or from paper surface
Character- or line-spacing mechanisms
Typewriters
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and specifically to an ink jet recording apparatus that performs recording using liquid ink.
2. Description of the Related Art
FIG. 1 is a perspective view schematically illustrating an embodiment of a recording apparatus according to the invention.
FIG. 2 is a side elevation view schematically illustrating an example of a rail configuration that supports a carriage.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view schematically illustrating an example of a configuration of a guide rail adjusting mechanism.
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail in accordance with the accompanying drawings.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Also, configurations having similar functions in the drawings are assigned similar reference numerals, and thus the description thereof will be omitted.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view schematically illustrating an embodiment of a recording apparatus according to the invention. The transportation direction of the recording medium is the Y direction, the vertical direction (movement direction of a carriage 52) to the transportation direction of the recording medium is the X direction and the vertical direction to a recording surface of the recording medium is Z the direction. Also, in following description, a roll paper 82 is used as the recording medium, however the invention is not limited to the configuration and a cut paper may be also used.