US 12,113,943 B2
Image reading and printing apparatus
Kazuyuki Morinaga, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/523,848.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-218726 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0210282 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 29/13 (2006.01); B41J 29/38 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 1/028 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00525 (2013.01) [B41J 29/38 (2013.01); H04N 1/00557 (2013.01); H04N 1/00559 (2013.01); H04N 1/0057 (2013.01); H04N 1/04 (2013.01); H04N 1/02895 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus having a housing including a printing device and a reading device placed on an upper side of the printing device in a vertical direction,
the printing device comprising:
a carriage mounted with a printing unit capable of printing an image and configured to move reciprocally over a print medium conveyed in a first direction in a second direction crossing the first direction;
a flexible member configured to move and follow the carriage; and
a tank for containing a printing agent to be used by the printing unit, the reading device comprising:
a sensor unit configured to read an image of an original copy; and
a driving unit configured to move the sensor unit relative to the original copy,
wherein the driving unit occupies an accommodating region protruding from a bottom surface of the reading device toward the printing device,
part of the flexible member overlaps with the accommodating region in the first direction on a lower side of the accommodating region in the vertical direction, and
part of the tank is located within the housing and overlaps with the accommodating region in the second direction on a lower side of the accommodating region in the vertical direction.