US 12,030,309 B2
Printing apparatus, carriage apparatus, and control method
Naoaki Wada, Kanagawa (JP); Daigo Kuronuma, Kanagawa (JP); Masakazu Nagashima, Kanagawa (JP); Tomohito Abe, Kanagawa (JP); Ryohei Maruyama, Kanagawa (JP); Kenta Iimura, Kanagawa (JP); Hiromasa Yoneyama, Kanagawa (JP); Kichinosuke Hirokawa, Tokyo (JP); Akira Fujikake, Kanagawa (JP); Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Tokyo (JP); and Hideyuki Nozawa, Tochigi (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/742,545.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-082601 (JP), filed on May 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0363079 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 19/00 (2006.01); B41J 19/20 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 19/202 (2013.01) [B41J 19/005 (2013.01); B41J 29/38 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a carriage mounted with a printing unit configured to perform printing on a print medium;
a first motor used to move the carriage;
a second motor used together with the first motor to move the carriage; and
a control unit configured to control the first motor and the second motor,
wherein when moving the carriage, the control unit controls the first motor with a first control amount and controls the second motor with a second control amount,
the first control amount and the second control amount are different from each other, and a ratio therebetween is a predetermined ratio, and
the predetermined ratio is set so that an output difference between the first motor and the second motor is less than that in a case in which the first control amount and the second control amount are the same control amount.