US 12,434,498 B2
Printing apparatus
Atsushi Kohnotoh, Tokyo (JP); Takashi Abe, Kanagawa (JP); Ken Takenaga, Kanagawa (JP); Yusuke Naratani, Tokyo (JP); and Kousuke Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/377,494.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-162666 (JP), filed on Oct. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0116302 A1, Apr. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. B41J 29/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 13/03 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 29/00 (2013.01) [B41J 2/175 (2013.01); B41J 13/03 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a support member configured to support a printhead that performs printing by discharging liquid;
a rotating member configured to be supported by the support member so as to be rotatable and capable of rotating to an open position at which the printhead is capable of being attached to or detached from the support member and a closed position at which the printhead is not capable of being attached to or detached from the support member;
a shaft portion arranged on one of the rotating member and the support member, and being a rotation center of the rotating member;
a shaft supporting portion arranged on the other of the rotating member and the support member, the shaft portion being inserted into the shaft supporting portion in an axial direction so as to be supported by the shaft supporting portion; and
a displacement regulation structure configured to
regulate displacement of the rotating member in the axial direction with respect to the support member in a predetermined rotation range of the rotating member, and
permit displacement of the rotating member in the axial direction at a rotation position outside the predetermined rotation range.