US 12,479,220 B2
Recording device
Yusuke Saito, Yamagata-mura (JP); Kenichiro Kaneko, Okaya (JP); and Masaki Kobayashi, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/477,510.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-157667 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0109347 A1, Apr. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 11/06 (2006.01); B41J 25/00 (2006.01); B41J 29/02 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 25/001 (2013.01) [B41J 2/1752 (2013.01); B41J 11/06 (2013.01); B41J 29/02 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording device comprising:
a carriage including a recording head configured to record on medium and movable in a main scanning direction;
an elongated member having one end connected to the recording head or the carriage;
an elongated housing section that houses the elongated member and includes
a fixed end that is fixed to the apparatus side,
a moving end that is fixed to the carriage, and
an elongated variable section that is a variable section extending between the fixed end and the moving end, and
that in which a curved portion, which is a portion where the variable section extending in parallel to the main scanning direction folds back at an intermediate section thereof, moves following movement of the carriage; and
a flexible film member disposed between the elongated member and the housing section in a height direction intersecting with a longitudinal direction of the housing section, wherein
a coefficient of friction between the film member and the elongated member is smaller than a coefficient of friction between the housing section and the elongated member.