US 12,077,006 B2
Carriage apparatus and printing apparatus
Ryutaro Takahashi, Tokyo (JP); Daigo Kuronuma, Kanagawa (JP); Naoaki Wada, Kanagawa (JP); Tomohito Abe, Kanagawa (JP); Kenta Iimura, Kanagawa (JP); Ryohei Maruyama, Kanagawa (JP); Masakazu Nagashima, Kanagawa (JP); and Toshiaki Yamaguchi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/489,282.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-166110 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0097429 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 25/00 (2006.01); B41J 19/20 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 25/006 (2013.01) [B41J 19/202 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a print head configured to print an image on a sheet;
a carriage, on which the print head is mounted, configured to reciprocally move in a first direction;
a first motor arranged on a side of one end of a range of movement of the carriage and configured to drive the carriage;
a second motor arranged on a side of the other end of the range of movement of the carriage and configured to drive the carriage;
a first pulley configured to be driven by the first motor through a first rotation shaft;
a second pulley configured to be driven by the second motor through a second rotation shaft;
a frame configured to fix the first motor;
a carriage belt suspended between the first pulley and the second pulley, attached with the carriage, and configured to move the carriage in the first direction; and
a support member configured to be arranged between the second pulley and the second motor, and to fix the second motor,
wherein the second motor is displaceable in the first direction with respect to the first motor before the support member is fixed to the frame.