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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2018
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yugo Ishikawa, Shiojiri, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 3/28 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/04503 (2013.01); B41J 2/04581 (2013.01); B41J 11/0095 (2013.01); B41J 2002/14193 (2013.01);
Abstract
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.