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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2013
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Narita, Nagano-ken, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printer has a pair of frame panels that support the ends of a carriage guide shaft, a carriage that carries a print head, a carriage drive motor, and first and second pulleys on which a belt connected to the carriage is mounted. The first and second pulleys limit the range of bidirectional carriage movement so that the maximum width of carriage movement is substantially equal to the width between the pair of frame panels. A tube that carries ink to the print head is disposed curving in a U-shape in the direction of the width between the pair of frame panels. The carriage drive motor is disposed in the space in which the tube is located in the space on the opposite side as the direction in which the tube curves, and the drive shaft of the carriage drive motor is perpendicular to the scanning plane of the carriage.