Patent ID: 7318638

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus, comprising: a liquid ejecting head having nozzle openings for ejecting liquid drops; capping means for sealing a nozzle forming face of said liquid ejecting head to form a closed space; a tube pump for discharging a fluid in said capping means sealing said nozzle forming face, said tube pump having a flexible tube member having a curved part and a roller member rolling on an inner periphery of said curved part while pressing and deforming said tube member, wherein there exists a leak point where a pressing deformation amount of said curved part by said roller member becomes insufficient; phase detection means for detecting a phase of a rotational motion of said roller member along said inner periphery of said curved part; and control means for controlling an operation of said tube pump, said control means having a function for stopping said roller member at a predetermined position based on an information on said phase of said rotational motion of said roller member detected by said phase detection means, wherein said predetermined position is a position other than said leak point, wherein said curved part of said tube member is in a circular ring shape, and wherein both ends of said tube member are pulled out in a same direction and bundled together in a same plane, and wherein said leak point is positioned at an area where said ends of said tube member are bundled.