| 摘要 |
An ink jet recording apparatus mounts an ink jet recording head for discharging ink from an ink discharging port and has a carriage moved to a recording position opposed to a recording medium and a capping position opposed to a cap for covering the ink discharging port. The ink jet recording apparatus comprises a cap holder for holding the cap for covering said ink discharging port, a cap slider which holds said cap holder and a resilient member for resiliently biasing said cap to a side of said ink jet recording head in said capping position, and is moved in the same direction as a moving direction of said carriage together with the movement of the carriage in accordance with the movement of said carriage to said capping position, and a slider holding mechanism which movably supports said cap slider in said moving direction and has a mechanism for displacing said cap holder to said ink jet recording head side in said capping position in accordance with the movement of said cap slider.
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