Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Liquid ejecting apparatus
Provided is a liquid ejecting apparatus including a liquid ejecting head that ejects liquid through nozzle openings, and a wiper that sweeps a liquid ejection surface side of the liquid ejecting head, in which the liquid ejecting head includes a nozzle plate having the liquid ejection surface and a protection member that protrudes further on a liquid discharging side than the nozzle plate, and the wiper sweeps a surface of the protection member, which is an exterior surface of the protection member intended to be swept, toward the nozzle plate side, and then the wiper sweeps the liquid ejection surface so that the wiper moves away from the surface of the protection member and comes into contact with a portion between the nozzle openings on the nozzle plate and an end portion of the nozzle plate, which is located on an opposite side in a sweeping direction.
Seiko Epson Corporation
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Katsumi Shunsuke Hajime
Enomoto Watanabe Nakao