Patent ID: 6726316
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An ink jet recording apparatus, comprising:a scanning carriage that is movable in a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of a recording medium; a recording head with nozzles that is detachably mounted to the scanning carriage; an ink supply source that is provided outside the scanning carriage and supplies ink to the recording head via a supply tube; a joint member that is provided in the scanning carriage and connected to the supply tube of the ink supply source; an ink inlet that is provided in the recording head; an ink outlet that is provided in the joint member; and an engaging device that fixes the recording head to the scanning carriage, wherein the recording head is detachable from the scanning carriage in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which ink is ejected from the nozzles with respect to the recording medium, and the ink inlet is detachable from the ink outlet along the direction where the recording head is detachable from the scanning carriage.