Patent ID: 7452054
Filing Date: 2008-11-18
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An image recording device comprising: a carriage that moves reciprocally in a main scanning direction that is perpendicular to a sub scanning direction in which a recording medium is transported; a recording head mounted on the carriage and discharges ink to form an image on the recording medium; first and second guide plates formed in flat-shape on which the carriage is slidably provided and extend in the main scanning direction to be parallel with each other; a drive motor mounted at one end of the second guide plate; a drive pulley fixed on a drive shaft of the drive motor; a driven pulley disposed on the second guide plate at other end opposite to the one end where the drive motor is mounted; and a timing belt that is wound around a pulley portion of the drive pulley and a pulley portion of the driven pulley, the timing belt being fixedly attached to an attachment portion of the carriage.