US 9,067,419 B2Granted

Recording apparatus

AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation

InventorsYoshiyuki Tanaka, Takaichi Wada, Tetsuya Takamoto, Katsumi Okamoto, Yasuhiro Matsuo, Isao Momose, Yoshisada Aoki, Tomohiro Yasufuku

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Abstract

There is provided a recording apparatus including a recording head that can eject an ink onto a sheet, a transport unit that transports the sheet to the recording head, a housing that contains the recording head and the transport unit, a case that is arranged on an outer surface of the housing so that the bottom portion thereof is positioned higher than a bottom surface of the housing, and that serves as a holder which holds an ink container containing an ink, and a supply unit that supplies the ink from the ink container to the recording head.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A recording apparatus comprising:

a recording head that can eject a liquid onto a recording medium;
a recording medium holding unit that holds the recording medium;
a transport unit that transports the recording medium to the recording head;
a housing that contains the recording head and the transport unit, and into which the recording medium holding unit is inserted;
an insertion port that is formed on an outer surface of the housing and into which the recording medium holding unit is inserted;
a liquid container that contains the liquid;
a holder that is arranged on at least one outer side surface adjacent to an outer surface having the insertion port of the housing, and that holds the liquid container;
a supply unit that supplies the liquid into the housing from the liquid container;
and
an external recording medium holding unit that is arranged below the housing and is different from the recording medium holding unit,
wherein the holder has a bottom portion, and is arranged so that the bottom portion is positioned lower than a bottom surface of the housing.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.