Head cleaning device for ink jet printer, and printer provided with the same
US7244012B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 28, 2004 |
| Grant date | Jul 17, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 3, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB41J2/16552
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A Cleaning fluid discharge openings capable of supplying a cleaning fluid is provided around a suction port mounted in opposition to a nozzle hole. A negative pressure generating source performs suction from the suction port to take out the cleaning fluid from the cleaning fluid discharge openings and to contact the cleaning fluid, thus taken out, with a neighborhood of the nozzle hole, and the cleaning fluid thus contacted is sucked and recovered from the suction port. A member of the suction port is made of a porous resin and the cleaning fluid discharge openings comprise pores formed on a surface of the porous resin. A cleaning fluid supplied to the porous resin is taken out from the pores formed on the surface of the porous resin to clean the neighborhood of the nozzle holes and to simultaneously clean the suction port as a wiping member.
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