US 12,138,929 B2
Recording apparatus
Takeshi Aoki, Matsumoto (JP); and Yusaku Amano, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/955,850.
Application 17/955,850 is a division of application No. 17/164,223, filed on Feb. 1, 2021, granted, now 11,485,140.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-014900 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0035955 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/165 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/16505 (2013.01) [B41J 2/16517 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording apparatus, comprising:
a support portion having a support surface that configures a transport route and transports a medium supported by the support surface in a transport direction which is an inclined direction between a horizontal direction and a vertical direction;
a recording head having an ejecting surface that faces in the support portion and is provided with a nozzle configured to eject liquid to the medium to be transported in the transport direction;
a cap portion configured to cover the ejecting surface;
a movement mechanism configured to move the recording head in a moving direction which is orthogonal to the transport direction; and
a cap moving portion configured to support the cap portion and move the cap portion between a cap position where a cap surface of the cap portion covers the ejecting surface and a standby position where the cap surface does not cover the ejecting surface, wherein
the cap moving portion moves the cap portion in the transport direction with the cap surface faces the ejecting surface,
the standby position is apart from the cap position in the transport direction, and
when the cap portion is viewed from a direction which is orthogonal to the transport direction, a dimension of the cap surface in a width direction which is orthogonal to the transport direction is larger than a dimension of the cap surface in the transport direction.