Patent ID: 7703880

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus which discharges ink to perform recording on a recording material, comprising: a carriage unit, including a carriage and a recording head mounted thereon, which reciprocates in a first direction intersecting a second direction, which is a direction of an arrangement of a discharge port array formed on the recording head, wherein said carriage unit has slide surfaces; a slide member which moves by following the movement of said carriage unit; a wiper which wipes a discharge port surface of the recording head, the discharge port array being provided in the discharge port surface; a wiper holder which holds said wiper, said wiper holder being held on said slide member so as to be displaceable relative to said slide member both in the second direction and in a third direction intersecting the first and the second directions; a first spring which displaceably supports said wiper holder in the second direction relative to said slide member; and a second spring which displaceably supports said wiper holder in the third direction relative to said slide member; wherein, when said carriage unit moves in the first direction relative to said wiper to wipe the discharge port surface with said wiper, predetermined portions of said wiper holder abut onto the slide surfaces of said carriage unit so as to maintain a relative position between said wiper and the discharge port surface in the second and the third directions, while the predetermined portions are slidable on the slide surfaces in the first direction.