US 11,712,900 B2
Image recording apparatus
Kousuke Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Koya Iwakura, Kanagawa (JP); Hideaki Matsumura, Kanagawa (JP); Tetsu Hamano, Tokyo (JP); Nobuhiro Toki, Kanagawa (JP); Daiju Takeda, Kanagawa (JP); Fumie Kameyama, Tokyo (JP); Koki Shimada, Kanagawa (JP); Shota Asada, Tokyo (JP); Ken Takenaga, Kanagawa (JP); Yusuke Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Yuta Araki, Chiba (JP); Taiji Maruyama, Kanagawa (JP); Atsushi Matsuyama, Kanagawa (JP); and Yusuke Naratani, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/384,836.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-130026 (JP), filed on Jul. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0032636 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17523 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17513 (2013.01); B41J 2/17596 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image recording apparatus comprising:
a carriage configured to support a recording head that ejects liquid and configured to move in a scanning direction;
a liquid containing portion configured to contain liquid that is supplied to the recording head;
a tube configured to connect the recording head and the liquid containing portion to supply liquid from the liquid containing portion to the recording head, the tube including (1) a first section that extends in the scanning direction and (2) a second section that extends in the scanning direction above the first section;
a support portion configured to support the first section and be secured to an apparatus main body; and
a rotating member provided in the support portion and having a peripheral surface configured to contact the second section of the tube and to rotate in a case where the carriage is moving.