Seiko Epson Corporation

Yugo Ishikawa

Junya Kato

Tsuneyuki Sasaki

A printing apparatus includes an ejecting head that ejects ink droplets onto a surface of a printing medium (paper roll), a carriage on which the ejecting head is mounted, a platen that faces the ejecting head and supports the printing medium, a detector plate provided in the carriage and is displaced in accordance with an external force applied in response to contact with the printing medium, and an encoder that measures a displacement amount of the detector plate and outputs an output value corresponding to the displacement amount.

Printing apparatus

A printing apparatus includes a discharging unit configured to discharge ink on a medium; a drive circuit configured to drive the discharging unit; a carriage configured to reciprocate in a scanning direction X while supporting the discharging unit and the drive circuit; and a blowing unit capable of blowing air toward the drive circuit supported on the carriage. The carriage includes a shielding member that partitions a discharging unit housing room from a drive circuit housing room. The discharging unit is disposed in the discharging unit housing room, and the drive circuit is disposed in the drive circuit housing room.

Liquid discharging apparatus

A liquid discharging apparatus enhances a detection accuracy of a contact state when a recording medium and a liquid discharging unit come into contact, and suppresses contact between the recording medium and the liquid discharging unit, which may cause damage. The liquid discharging apparatus includes a transport unit, a liquid discharging unit, a skirt provided to the liquid discharging unit in a position that faces the recording medium transported to the recording region, a piezoelectric film sensor adhered to an adhering surface of the skirt and configured to generate an output in accordance with a degree of deformation of the adhering surface, and a control unit configured to control the liquid discharging unit and/or the transport unit on the basis of the output of the piezoelectric film sensor. The adhering surface of the skirt includes a slit formed around the periphery thereof.

A liquid discharging apparatus is provided with a liquid discharging section that discharges a liquid onto a medium, and a transport section that transports the medium, and a piezoelectric film sensor is provided in the liquid discharging section. Due to a liquid discharging apparatus having such a configuration, it is possible to suppress a circumstance in which at least one of the medium and the liquid discharging section become damaged due to contact between the medium and the liquid discharging section.

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Shiojiri, Japan

Yugo Ishikawa