Patent ID: 7784900

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a carriage that moves back and forth along a main scanning direction; a plurality of recording heads mounted on the carriage which recording heads discharge recording liquid; a guide that guides the carriage in the main scanning direction; a power source and a drive pulley that drive the carriage to move in the main scanning direction; a driven pulley that transmits drive power from the power source to the carriage; and a motion transmitting element that is arranged over the drive pulley and the driven pulley; wherein the carriage is forced toward the guide by a tension generated by deflecting an extending direction of the motion transmitting element, and a distance between the drive pulley and the guide, denoted as L 1 , a distance between the driven pulley and the guide, denoted as L 2 , and a distance between the guide and a coupling point at which the carriage and the motion transmitting element are coupled, denoted as L 3 , satisfy any one of conditions: L1>L2>L3; L1=L2>L3; L2>L1>L3; L2>L3>L1; L1>L3>L2; L3>L1>L2; and L3>L2>L1.