Patent ID: 7600869
Filing Date: 2009-10-13
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A storage housing for storing a recording head of a recording apparatus that is dismounted from a main body of the recording apparatus, the recording head having an inside surface and an outside surface and operable to perform a recording operation by an ink which is to be supplied to the recording head through an ink inlet opening in the inside surface and which is to be ejected toward a recording medium through nozzles opening in the outside surface, said storage housing comprising: a first body and a second body which include a first sealing portion and a second sealing portion, respectively, and which are opposed to each other in an opposed direction, with the inside and outside surfaces of the recording head being interposed between said first and second bodies in said opposed direction, such that the ink inlet opening in the inside surface is sealed by said first sealing portion and such that the nozzles opening in the outside surface are sealed by said second sealing portion, wherein said first and second bodies farther include respective first and second extending portions which extend in said opposed direction and which are positioned outside the interposed recording head as seen in said opposed direction, wherein one of said first and second extending portions provides an arm that is movable to attach and detach one of said first and second bodies that includes said one of said first and second extending portions, to and from the recording head, wherein the other of said first and second extending portions provides a protecting cover that is positioned outside at least a distal end portion of said arm as seen in said opposed direction so as to cover at least said distal end portion of said arms, wherein said arm serves as an engagement establishing arm and includes an engaging portion that is held in engagement with an engaged portion of the recording head interposed between said first and second bodies, wherein said one of said first and second bodies is attached to the recording head by the engagement of said engaging portion with the engaged portion of the recording head such that one of said first and second sealing portions that is included in said one of said first and second bodies is held in contact with a corresponding one of the inside and outside surfaces of the recording head, and wherein said protecting cover includes a pressing portion that presses said arm against the engaged portion of the recording head interposed between said first and second bodies.