US 12,269,255 B2
Printing device
Yuta Watanabe, Matsumoto (JP); and Yoshitsugu Tokai, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/341,274.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-103232 (JP), filed on Jun. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0415497 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/14 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/00224 (2021.01) [B41J 2/14201 (2013.01); B41J 11/00214 (2021.01); B41J 2/21 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing device comprising:
a carriage configured to move in a first direction along a first axis;
a head configured to eject ink onto a medium; and
an irradiation section that is provided alongside the head in the first direction and that is configured to irradiate ultraviolet light toward the medium, wherein
the irradiation section has a cooling unit that cools the irradiation section by airflow,
in a plan view facing the medium, the head is disposed in a first region of the carriage and the irradiation section is disposed in a second region of the carriage, and
in the second region, at least one lid section is provided to block an airflow from a side in which the carriage faces the medium to the irradiation section.