US 12,441,111 B2
Recording device
Yuta Kawaguchi, Shiojiri (JP); and Shoji Akatsu, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/162,070.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-014209 (JP), filed on Feb. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0241891 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/145 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/145 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17523 (2013.01); B41J 2/17596 (2013.01); B41J 25/001 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording device comprising:
a head configured to discharge ink on a recording medium;
a main body portion provided with a guide shaft;
a carriage provided with the head and configured to reciprocate along the guide shaft;
a transport section that transports the recording medium in a first direction that is a transport direction of the recording medium and that is orthogonal to a second direction along the guide shaft that is a movement direction of the carriage; and
an ink tube having a one-end side coupled to an ink accommodating portion disposed at the main body portion, the ink tube being configured to supply ink to the head, wherein
the carriage includes:
a guided portion supported by the guide shaft;
a tube holding unit attached to the guided portion and configured to hold another-end side of the ink tube; and
a head placement portion at which the head is disposed, the head placement portion being attached to the guided portion, and
an attachment portion where the tube holding unit is attached to the guided portion includes a displacement portion configured such that the tube holding unit is displaced relative to the guided portion in the first direction when external force equal to or greater than a threshold value acts on the tube holding unit.