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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2006
Kenji Samoto, Nagoya, JP;
Noriyuki Kawamata, Nagoya, JP;
Shuichi Tamaki, Nagoya, JP;
Toshio Sugiura, Anjo, JP;
Kenji Samoto, Nagoya, JP;
Noriyuki Kawamata, Nagoya, JP;
Shuichi Tamaki, Nagoya, JP;
Toshio Sugiura, Anjo, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
An image-recording device including a carriage, a recording head, a guide rail, a flexible flat cable, a flexible ink supply tubes, and a top cover. The recording head is provided at the carriage. The guide rail extends in a widthwise direction of a recording medium fed in a feeding direction perpendicular to the widthwise direction. The flat cable has a broad surface extending in a horizontal direction and bent into U-shape so that an upper region of the flat cable faces the top cover whereas a lower region of the flat cable faces the base. The carriage is reciprocally movable in the widthwise direction. The flat cable is oriented upward from the carriage at a prescribed angle with respect to a horizontal plane and extends in the widthwise direction, so that at least the U-shaped bent portion of the flat cable is in continuous contact with the top cover.