Liquid ejecting apparatus and position adjusting method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHirofumi Yanagisawa, Kenichi Miyazaki
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Abstract
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit which can eject liquid; a connection unit to which a liquid container is connected along with a movement of the liquid container which can accommodate the liquid in a connecting direction; and a position adjusting unit which can change a position of the liquid container which is connected to the connection unit in a direction which intersects the connecting direction.
Claims6
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:
- a liquid ejecting unit which can eject liquid;
- a connection unit to which a liquid container that can accommodate the liquid is connected in a connecting direction along with a movement of the liquid container;
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- a position adjusting unit which can change a position of the liquid container which is connected to the connection unit in a direction which intersects the connecting direction with respect to the connecting unit while keeping an orientation of a top and bottom surface of the liquid container with respect to the connecting direction.
A position adjusting method which changes a position of a liquid container which can accommodate the liquid in a liquid ejecting apparatus which includes a liquid ejecting unit which can eject liquid, and the connection unit to which the liquid container is connected, the method comprising:
- connecting the liquid container to the connection unit by moving the liquid container in a connecting direction in which the liquid container goes toward the connection unit;
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- changing a position of the liquid container along a direction which intersects the connecting direction with respect to the connecting unit while keeping an orientation of a top and bottom surface of the liquid container with respect to the connecting direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.