Liquid ejection apparatus, mist collecting mechanism and mist collection method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9199472-B2
Application number	US-201414484447-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 12, 2014
Priority date	Sep 20, 2013
Publication date	Dec 1, 2015
Grant date	Dec 1, 2015

Abstract

There are provided a mist collecting mechanism capable of efficiently sucking and collecting an air blown out from a blow-out unit and a liquid ejection apparatus including the mist collecting mechanism. The mist collecting mechanism includes a suction port configured to suck an air containing mists. Moreover, the mist collecting mechanism includes a first blow-out port that blows out an air in order to guide the air containing mists to the suction port. Moreover, the mist collecting mechanism includes a second blow-out port that blows out an air in order to adjust a position, toward which the air blown out from the first blow-out port flows, so that the air blown out from the first blow-out port is appropriately sucked by the suction port.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A liquid ejection apparatus comprising a liquid ejection head having an ejection port array, in which ejection ports configured to eject liquid are arranged in a predetermined direction, the liquid ejection apparatus applying the liquid ejected from the ejection ports to a medium, the liquid ejection apparatus further comprising:
a first blow-out port configured to blow out air toward the medium;
a suction port configured to suck air containing mists that…

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Ishida Koichi
• Arimizu Hiroshi
• Miyakoshi Arihito
• Itoh Yoshinori
• Yamaguchi Nobuhito
• Kubota Masahiko

Classifications

• B41J2/1714 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic