Patent ID: 7874642

Claim:
A recording apparatus, comprising: a recording head including an actuator which has connecting terminals and operable to perform recording by an operation of the actuator; a flexible wiring member which is electrically connected at one end thereof to the connecting terminals of the actuator and at the other end thereof to an external signal source and which includes conductor wires through which drive signals are inputted to the actuator, wherein the actuator includes a first group of connecting terminals as a part of the connecting terminals and a second group of connecting terminals as a part of the connecting terminals, the first group of connecting terminals and the second group of connecting terminals being arranged in a first direction, wherein the flexible wiring member is branched so as to include a first band-like region and a second band-like region that correspond to the first group of connecting terminals and the second group of connecting terminals, respectively, wherein the conductor wires of the flexible wiring member include: (a) a first group of conductor wires which constitute a part of the conductor wires and which are disposed on the first band-like region so as to be connected to the first group of connecting terminals; and (b) a second group of conductor wires which constitute a part of the conductor wires and which are disposed on the second band-like region so as to be connected to the second group of connecting terminals, wherein the first band-like region and the second band-like region respectively include at said one end of the flexible wiring member a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion which are connected to the first group of connecting terminals and the second group of connecting terminals, respectively, wherein each of the first band-like region and the second band-like region extends generally in the first direction respectively from the first group of connecting terminals and the second group of connecting terminals, and wherein at least a portion of one of the first band-like region and the second band-like region which extends from one of the first group of connecting terminals and the second group of connecting terminals which is more distant from the other end of the flexible wiring member is disposed so as to overlap (a) the other of the first group of connecting terminals and the second group of connecting terminals which is nearer to the other end of the flexible wiring member and (b) the other of the first band-like region and the second band-like region which extends from the other of the first group of connecting terminals and the second group of connecting terminals.