Patent ID: 7244013

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus for ejecting a liquid toward a target, the liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a liquid ejecting head including a nozzle surface that has a plurality of nozzles for ejecting the liquid; a cap including an outer wall that defines an opening, the opening being closed by the nozzle surface, wherein the outer wall comes into contact with the nozzle surface and the plurality of nozzles are covered by the cap when the nozzle surface closes the opening; and an aspiration mechanism, connected to the cap, for aspirating fluid in an inner space of the cap and draining the fluid from the inner space of the cap, wherein the cap includes a partition wall that comes into contact with the nozzle surface and defines a plurality of chambers together with the nozzle surface and the outer wall when the nozzle surface closes the opening, and wherein the outer wall is formed to receive a first stress when coming into contact with the nozzle surface, and the partition wall is formed to receive a second stress less than the first stress when coming into contact with the nozzle surface.