Patent ID: 11964501
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A printing device comprising:
a housing;
a head arranged inside the housing and configured to eject a liquid;
a fan arranged inside the housing;
a humidifier configured to supply humidified air to a supply port arranged at an exhaust port side of the fan;
a filter arranged at a fan side of the supply port;
a conveyance mechanism configured to convey a platen on which a medium is arranged between an internal position of the housing and outside of the housing through a platen opening provided on a sub-scanning direction side of the housing;
a pair of inner walls arranged to face each other in a direction intersecting the sub-scanning direction at the internal position; and
a maintenance mechanism configured to maintain the head,
wherein the fan is arranged at an ejection direction side of the liquid from the head, and
wherein in a main scanning direction perpendicular to the sub-scanning direction,
the supply port is positioned between the maintenance mechanism and one of the pair of inner walls,
the exhaust port of the fan is positioned between the supply port and the one of the pair of inner walls, and
the exhaust port is configured to exhaust air therethrough toward the maintenance mechanism to allow the humidified air to be supplied to the maintenance mechanism.