US 12,269,280 B2
Nail printing apparatus and control method of nail printing apparatus
Soma Nakai, Tokyo (JP); Toshiaki Tokisawa, Kanagawa (JP); and Yuka Tani, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/706,728.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-064094 (JP), filed on Apr. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312929 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 3/407 (2006.01); A45D 29/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 3/40731 (2020.08) [B41J 3/4073 (2013.01); A45D 2029/005 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A nail printing apparatus that prints an image on a nail, the nail printing apparatus comprising:
a finger placement unit capable of lifting and lowering on which a finger corresponding to the nail is placed, with the finger placement unit having a fixing unit configured to fix the finger, and the fixing unit including:
a pressing unit configured to cover at least a part of the finger; and
a pushing-up unit configured to push up the finger until the finger comes into contact with the pressing unit; and
an adjustment unit configured to adjust an inclination in a height direction of a tip side and a bottom side of a surface of the nail corresponding to the finger placed on the finger placement unit, with the adjustment unit including:
a fingertip placement unit arranged on a side closer to a fingertip than the fixing unit; and
a fingertip lifting/lowering unit configured to lift/lower the fingertip placement unit.