Patent ID: 9056506
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: a carriage which includes a recording head performing recording on a medium and is movable in a first direction and a second direction that is opposite the first direction, the carriage forming a lubricant storing storage chamber; a smoothed surfaced shaft-shaped guide shaft which guides the carriage in the first and second directions and extends in the first direction; a pair of slide bearings which are arranged on the guide shaft in the carriage, and which are separated from each other in an axial direction of the guide shaft; and a lubricant guiding unit which is arranged on the guide shaft between the pair of slide bearings and which guides a lubricant to a sliding contact portion between the carriage and the guide shaft, wherein the carriage slides on the shaft-shaped guide shaft via the pair of slider bearings, wherein the lubricant guiding unit includes a cylindrical member which is loosely fitted on outside the guide shaft and within the lubricant storing storage chamber and the cylindrical member engages with a portion of the carriage and is rotated when the carriage is moved and an outer surface of the cylindrical member collects lubricant accumulated in the lubricant storing storage chamber.