Patent ID: 6736486
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A recording apparatus comprising:a carriage unit having an electrical contact; an ink cartridge having an electrical contact, the ink cartridge being mounted so as to be attachable and detachable to the carriage unit in a state where the electrical contacts are kept in press-contact with each other; a cover for opening and closing an attachment/detachment direction of the ink cartridge in the carriage unit; energizing means for generating an energizing force responsive to a deformation amount in the opposite direction to a deformation direction, the energizing means being arranged in the carriage unit so as to be opposed to a wall face on the opposite side to a wall face provided with the electrical contact of the ink cartridge mounted on the carriage unit; and an insertion member which is inserted in or removed from between the energizing means and the wall face on the opposite side to the wall face provided with the electrical contact of the ink cartridge in accordance with a movement of the cover in a closing direction or an opening direction, the insertion member being disposed on the cover so as to be movable in a press-contact direction of the electrical contact of the carriage unit and the electrical contact of the ink cartridge, wherein the insertion member deforms the energizing means in accordance with a movement of the insertion member in an insertion direction so as to gradually move away from the wall face on the opposite side to the wall face provided with the electrical contact of the ink cartridge in the opposite direction to the press-contact direction.