Recovery system for recording head, ink-jet recording apparatus including the same, and recovery method for the recording head

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9475293-B2
Application number	US-201615017139-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 5, 2016
Priority date	Feb 19, 2015
Publication date	Oct 25, 2016
Grant date	Oct 25, 2016

Abstract

A recovery system for a recording head of the present disclosure includes a wiper, a drive mechanism, a first rotary mechanism, and a control portion. The first rotary mechanism causes the wiper to rotate. The control portion is capable of executing the recovery operation of a recording head including an ink push-out operation in which ink is forcibly pushed out, a first wipe-off operation in which purged ink is wiped off, a rotary moving-away operation in which, while being caused to move in a first direction, the wiper is caused to rotate toward an obliquely lower side in a second direction opposite to the first direction, thus moving away from the ink discharge surface, and a second wipe-off operation in which ink is wiped off by causing the wiper to move in the second direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A recovery system for a recording head that has a nozzle region in which a discharge nozzle that discharges ink onto a recording medium is open, comprising:
a wiper that wipes off purged ink forcibly pushed out from the discharge nozzle;
a drive mechanism that drives the wiper to reciprocate along an ink discharge surface including the nozzle region;
a first rotary mechanism that causes the wiper to rotate in such a direction as to move away from the ink…

Assignees

• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Tanda Tetsuo

Classifications

• B41J2/16535 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/16508 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/16544

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/16585

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/16538

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic