Printing apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9085178
APP PUB NO 20140192109A1
SERIAL NO

14148070

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A printing apparatus includes a print head that forms an image on a target printing surface of a printing medium by relatively moving with respect to the printing medium, an elastic wave radiation unit that radiates elastic waves, in air toward the target printing surface, a reception unit that receives the elastic waves that are radiated from the elastic wave radiation unit and reflected by the target printing surface, and a control unit which measures the time of arrival taken for elastic waves, and stops relative movement when the time of arrival is shorter than a defined time, in which the defined time is a time of arrival in which a distance from the print head to the printing medium and the distance from the elastic wave radiation unit to the printing medium to an allowable minimum distance between the print head and the printing medium.

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  • SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Endo, Tsunenobu Matsumoto, JP 30 82

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