Patent ID: 7618134
Filing Date: 2009-11-17
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An image recording apparatus comprising: an apparatus body; a recording head for recording an image by ejecting ink droplets to a recording medium that is conveyed in a predetermined conveying direction; a carriage carrying the recording head thereon and reciprocating inside the apparatus body in a direction crossing the conveying direction; and a plurality of flexible ink tubes, for supplying ink to the recording head, whose one end portions are fixed to the carriage and the other end portions are fixed to a fixing portion of an apparatus body such that the ink tubes extend from the carriage and from the fixing portion in one direction along the reciprocating direction of the carriage and form, at their intermediate portions, a curved portion reversing from one direction to the other direction along the reciprocating direction of the carriage, the carriage including: a carriage body having: a joint portion to which the plurality of ink tubes are connected in a state of being arranged in a first direction parallel to the conveying direction and the reciprocating direction of the carriage; and a flat plane protruding in an extending direction of the plurality of ink tubes from the joint portion, and carrying extending portions of the plurality of ink tubes from the joint portion slidably in the first direction; and a carriage cover having a pressing member for maintaining an arrangement state of the extending portions of the plurality of ink tubes in the first direction, by pinching the extending portions of the plurality of ink tubes against the flat plane slidably in the first direction.