Patent ID: 9120314
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A maintenance unit which maintains a liquid ejecting head in which nozzles for ejecting liquid onto an ejection target member are formed, the maintenance unit comprising: a cap holder that has a cap member capable of abutting against the liquid ejecting head so as to surround the nozzles; a pair of guide pins that are inserted into the cap holder and guide the cap holder in a movable manner in an approaching/separating direction in which the cap member approaches and is separated from the liquid ejecting head; an engagement portion that is capable of being engaged with the cap holder in the approaching/separating direction; and a displacement operating portion that displaces the engagement portion between a restricting position at which the engagement portion restricts drawing of the cap holder out of the guide pins and an allowing position at which the engagement portion is not engaged with the cap holder in the approaching/separating direction and allows the cap holder to be drawn out of the guide pins, wherein the engagement portion is provided at a position at which at least a part of the engagement portion overlaps with the pair of guide pins to be inserted into the cap holder in a direction in which the guide pins are aligned.