US 11,833,836 B2
Printing apparatus
Kenji Soya, Kanagawa (JP); Shingo Horita, Kanagawa (JP); and Atsushi Miyahara, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/670,433.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-020361 (JP), filed on Feb. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0258485 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17596 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17506 (2013.01); B41J 2/17509 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a first tube configured to form a flow channel to supply a liquid to a liquid ejecting unit configured to eject the liquid;
a second tube configured to form a flow channel to supply a liquid to a liquid ejecting unit configured to eject the liquid;
a holding unit configured to hold the first tube and the second tube, wherein the holding unit includes a first auxiliary supporting portion configured to regulate movement in a width direction of the first tube and includes a second auxiliary supporting portion configured to regulate movement in a width direction of the second tube; and
a valve unit configured to close the first tube and the second tube at a closed position by pressing the first tube and the second tube with a pressing portion, and to open the first tube and the second tube at an open position, wherein
the valve unit is pivotally movable about a pivot shaft from the open position to the closed position, and
a direction of extension of the pivot shaft is a direction intersecting with a direction of extension of the tube held by the holding unit.