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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2010
Yoichiro Shimizu, Kasugai, JP;
Masahiro Nishizaki, Iwakura, JP;
Yoshitsugu Morita, Nagoya, JP;
Tomoyuki Kubo, Nagoya, JP;
Yoichiro Shimizu, Kasugai, JP;
Masahiro Nishizaki, Iwakura, JP;
Yoshitsugu Morita, Nagoya, JP;
Tomoyuki Kubo, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a head having a nozzle surface having a plurality of nozzles which are open in the nozzle surface and through which a liquid is discharged toward an object; a transporting device which transports the object relative to the nozzle surface in a transporting direction and which positions the object to face the nozzle surface; a platen having a flexibility or bendability and provided with an attachment portion to which the object is attached; and a platen moving device which moves the platen in a direction orthogonal to the transporting direction to position the attachment portion at a nozzle facing position facing the nozzle surface under the condition that the liquid is discharged toward the object.