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US 9,434,188 B2Granted
Liquid discharging apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorJun Ushiama
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Abstract
A liquid discharging apparatus includes a feeding unit that feeds a medium, a feeding driving unit that drives the feeding unit, a liquid discharging unit that performs a discharging operation of discharging a liquid to the medium, and a controller that controls the feeding driving unit to start to operate in synchronization with a timing when the liquid discharging unit finally discharges the liquid in the discharging operation.
Claims7
A liquid discharging apparatus comprising:
- a feeding unit that feeds a medium;
- a feeding driving unit that drives the feeding unit;
- a liquid discharging unit that performs a discharging operation of discharging liquid to the medium;
- a carriage that moves the liquid discharging unit in a scan direction orthogonal to a feeding direction of the medium during the discharging operation;
- a reach detecting unit that detects that the liquid discharging unit reaches a position that is a set distance from a final discharging position where the liquid discharging unit finally discharges the liquid in the discharging operation;
- a holding unit that holds a roll body around which the medium is wound;
- a rotation driving unit that rotates the roll body through the holding unit so that the medium is pulled out from the roll body;
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- a controller that controls the feeding driving unit, on the basis of a reach detection by the reach detecting unit, to start to operate in synchronization with a timing when the liquid discharging unit finally discharges the liquid in the discharging operation, which is performed while the carriage is moved at a constant speed, wherein the controller, on the basis of the reach detection by the reach detecting unit, controls the rotation driving unit to start to operate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.