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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1999
Yoshitaka Okamura, Fukushima, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording apparatus mounts an ink jet recording head for discharging ink from an ink discharging port and has a carriage moved to a recording position opposed to a recording medium and a capping position opposed to a cap for covering the ink discharging port. The ink jet recording apparatus comprises a cap holder for holding the cap for covering the ink discharging port, a cap slider which holds the cap holder and a resilient member for resiliently biasing the cap to a side of the ink jet recording head in the capping position, and is moved in the same direction as a moving direction of the carriage together with the movement of the carriage in accordance with the movement of the carriage to the capping position, and a slider holding mechanism which movably supports the cap slider in the moving direction and has a mechanism for displacing the cap holder to the ink jet recording head side in the capping position in accordance with the movement of the cap slider.