Patent ID: 8226220
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A liquid discharge apparatus which discharges liquids, comprising: a liquid discharge head which reciprocates in a first direction on a predetermined plane and which discharges the liquids from nozzles; liquid supply sources which store the liquids to be supplied to the liquid discharge head; a plurality of flexible tubes which are arranged in a state of being bent and separated from each other and each of which constructs a part of a liquid flow passage from one of the liquid supply sources to the liquid discharge head; and a regulating member which is arranged on an outer circumferential side of the bent tubes and which regulates a movement of the tubes, wherein a plurality of connecting ports, of the liquid discharge head, to which first ends of the flexible tubes are connected respectively, are arranged in a second direction on the predetermined plane; wherein the tubes are fixed to the liquid discharge apparatus at fixed portions of the tubes in a state that the tubes are arranged in a third direction intersecting the predetermined plane, the fixed portions being located at positions different from positions of the connecting ports of the liquid discharge head in relation to a direction which is perpendicular to the first direction and parallel to the predetermined plane; wherein the regulating member has a plurality of accommodating sections each of which accommodates one of the flexible tubes; and wherein the accommodating sections are defined by an opposing surface which extends in the first and third directions, and which is opposed to portions of the flexible tubes extending from the fixed portions toward the first ends, and a plurality of ribs which protrude from the opposing surface.