US 12,280,599 B2
Recording apparatus
Takuto Tanaka, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/149,731.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-001048 (JP), filed on Jan. 6, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0211611 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/165 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/16588 (2013.01) 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording apparatus comprising:
a recording section configured to record by ejecting liquid onto a medium;
a maintenance section configured to move along a movement path, the movement path including a maintenance position at which maintenance of the recording section is performed and a retreat position retreated from the maintenance position; and
a guide unit configured to guide the maintenance section along the movement path, wherein
the maintenance section is configured to be removable from the guide unit,
the maintenance section includes
a first guided section which is guided by the guide unit and
a second guided section which is guided by the guide unit, the second guided section being positioned in a first movement direction with respect to the first guided section, the first movement direction being a direction from the retreat position toward the maintenance position,
when the maintenance section moves from the maintenance position in the first movement direction, the guide unit allows pivoting of the maintenance section with the first guided section as a pivot axis, the pivoting being accompanied by separation of the second guided section from the guide unit, and
the first guided section is configured to separate from the guide unit, by moving in the first movement direction after the pivot of the maintenance section is allowed.