| US 7,540,587 B2 | ||
| Liquid passage forming member guiding device | ||
| Atsushi Kobayashi, Nagano-ken (Japan); Shinya Yamagata, Nagano-ken (Japan); Kiyoshi Mukaiyama, Nagano-ken (Japan); and Steven Chen, Taipei (Taiwan) | ||
| Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Apr. 26, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/411,746. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005-133445 (JP), filed on Apr. 28, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0284945 A1, Dec. 21, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. B41J 23/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 347—37 [347/84; 347/85] | 8 Claims |
| 1. A guiding device that guides, in a main body of a liquid ejection apparatus having a carriage that reciprocates in a direction
of reciprocation along a left-right direction relative to the main body, the carriage having an upper surface, a flexible
passage forming member having a passage therein in a predetermined routing direction while curving the passage forming member,
comprising:
a holding member, the holding member being engaged with a curved section of the passage forming member, and holding the curved
section in an undeformable manner in the apparatus main body, wherein the holding member guides the passage forming member
in the routing direction,
wherein the holding member, when installed, is supported by the carriage, and
wherein the holding member curves the passage forming member upward from a front-rear direction so that the passage forming
member, when installed, is directed toward the upper surface of the carriage.
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