US 9,751,309 B2Granted

Liquid ejecting apparatus

AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation

InventorsHaruki Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Okazawa

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Abstract

A liquid ejecting head including a head which discharges ink from a nozzle surface on which a nozzle is included based on data, a signal line which sends data to the head via a connector, a carriage on which the head is mounted, and a first concave section and second concave section which accommodate the signal line and are included toward the outside of the carriage, in which the signal line is connected to the connector lined up with a terminal in the Y direction, and a position of a folded portion of the signal line which is accommodated in the first concave section and the second concave section overlaps with a fourth portion to a fifth portion which are a section of the carriage, and overlaps with a first portion to a second portion which are a section of the head in the X direction.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:

a head that is configured to discharge liquid from a nozzle toward a recording medium, the head having a rigid substrate for receiving head data;
a signal line that is configured to send the head data via the rigid substrate;
a carriage on which the head is mounted, the carriage being configured to move from a first region to a second region adjacent to the first region in an X direction via a boundary, the first region representing a maximum printable size of the recording medium, the second region being laterally shifted from an area of the maximum printable size of the recording medium;
and
a cap that is configured to seal the nozzle and that is positioned in the second region,
wherein at least part of the rigid substrate is positioned in the first region directly adjacent to the boundary when the cap seals the nozzle in the second region,
wherein the rigid substrate includes a connector connected to the signal line, and
the connector is positioned in the first region when the cap seals the nozzle in the second region, and the connector is positioned on one side of the head in the X direction.

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Facts

Application: 15/187,094Filed 20 Jun 2016 · continuation
Priority: JP 2014-14654217 Jul 2014
Published: US 2016/0016422 A113 Oct 2016
Granted: 5 Sep 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B41J 2/1433
Structure thereof only for on-demand ink jet heads: structure of nozzle plates
B41J 2/16508
Caps, spittoons or covers for cleaning or preventing drying out: connected with the printer frame
B41J 2/17526
Ink cartridges: electrical contacts to the cartridge
B41J 2/1753
Electrical contacts to the cartridge: details of contacts on the cartridge, e.g. protection of contacts

Family

Application14/800,058Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Jul 2015
US 2016/0297197 A1Pre-grant publication · published 13 Oct 2016
US 9,393,820 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2016/0016422 A1Published application
US 9,751,309 B2This patent

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