US 12,269,274 B2
Recording apparatus
Takaho Nagumo, Shiojiri (JP); Kazuaki Takahashi, Shiojiri (JP); and Ichiro Yoshioka, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/805,225.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-095670 (JP), filed on Jun. 8, 2021; and application No. 2021-095671 (JP), filed on Jun. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0388311 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/165 (2006.01); B41J 29/13 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17566 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17509 (2013.01); B41J 29/13 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17573 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording apparatus comprising:
a main body including a cover portion;
a liquid storage portion configured to store a liquid, and having a visual check surface through which the stored liquid is visually checkable from outside;
a recording head that ejects liquid supplied from the liquid storage portion onto a medium;
a carriage on which the liquid storage portion and the recording head are mounted, the carriage movable between a visual check position at which the liquid in the liquid storage portion is visually checkable through the visual check surface and a recording position at which the recording head ejects the liquid onto the medium; and
a light emitting unit on a lower surface of the cover portion, wherein the light emitting unit is configured to illuminate an inside of the liquid storage portion at least when the carriage is positioned at the visual check position.