US 9,315,048 B2Granted

Liquid ejecting apparatus

AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation

InventorsSatoru Katagami, Jun Yamada, Motoharu Habata

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Abstract

A target supporting apparatus includes a first supporting member having a plurality of first suction holes open to the front surface of the member and the rear surface thereof; a second supporting member having a plurality of second suction holes formed therein and being stacked on and fixed to the first supporting member, the cross-sectional area of each of the plurality of second suction holes being smaller than the cross-sectional area of each of the plurality of first suction holes; and a sucking unit that sucks in the plurality of first suction holes and hence sucks in the plurality of second suction holes communicating with the plurality of first suction holes. Here, a target which is supported in order for a liquid to be adhered thereto is sucked and held onto a supporting face of the second supporting member due to the driving of the sucking unit.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:

a liquid ejecting unit that ejects a liquid onto a target;
a first supporting member having a plurality of first penetrating holes;
a second supporting member having a plurality of second penetrating holes formed therein and being stacked on and fixed to the first supporting member, the cross-sectional area of each of the second penetrating holes being smaller than the cross-sectional area of each of the first penetrating holes, wherein intervals between neighboring first penetrating holes are larger than diameters of the first penetrating holes;
a heating unit having a heater buried in the first supporting member;
with a portion of the first supporting member disposed between the heating unit and the second supporting member and
a sucking unit that sucks in the plurality of first penetrating holes and hence sucks in the plurality of second penetrating holes communicating with the plurality of first penetrating holes;
wherein the target is sucked and held onto the second supporting member due to the driving of the sucking unit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/073,720Filed 6 Nov 2013 · continuation
Priority: JP 2008-24143819 Sep 2008
Published: US 2014/0063164 A16 Mar 2014
Granted: 19 Apr 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

B41J 11/0024
Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating: using conduction means, e.g. by using a heated platen
B41J 11/0085
Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in…:…
B41J 11/58
Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in…:…
B41J 15/165
Means for tensioning or winding the web: for tensioning continuous copy material by use of redirecting rollers or redirecting nonrevolving guides

Family

Application12/562,365Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Sep 2009
US 2014/0063164 A1Pre-grant publication · published 6 Mar 2014
US 8,636,355 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2010/0073450 A1Published application
US 9,315,048 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.