US 10,766,262 B2 · Liquid ejecting apparatus and cleaning device

Abstract

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head which ejects liquid from a nozzle that is disposed on a nozzle surface, a first wiping portion which is able to wipe away the liquid that is adhered to the nozzle surface, and a second wiping portion which is able to hold the liquid that is adhered to the nozzle surface by contacting the nozzle surface, wherein it is possible to perform a first maintenance operation in which the nozzle surface is wiped using the first wiping portion and a second maintenance operation in which the second wiping portion is caused to contact the nozzle surface due to the second wiping portion being biased by the first wiping portion.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:

a liquid ejecting head configured to eject a liquid from a nozzle disposed on a nozzle surface;
and
a wiper unit configured to wipe the nozzle surface, the wiper unit including:
a first wiping mechanism including a first wiping member configured to wipe the nozzle surface by movement in a wiping direction;
and
a second wiping mechanism including a second wiping member configured to wipe the nozzle surface by movement in the wiping direction, the second wiping member being a long shaped absorption member capable of absorbing the liquid, and
the first wiping member contacts the second wiping member, and the liquid attached to the first wiping member is collected by the second wiping member.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/419,269Filed 22 May 2019 · continuation

Priority

JP 2015-1974015 Oct 2015

Published

US 2019/0270309 A15 Sep 2019

Granted

8 Sep 2020

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

B41J 2/16535
Cleaning of print head nozzles: using wiping constructions
B41J 2/16538
Using wiping constructions: with brushes or wiper blades perpendicular to the nozzle plate
B41J 2/16508
Caps, spittoons or covers for cleaning or preventing drying out: connected with the printer frame
B41J 2002/1655
Using wiping constructions: with wiping surface parallel with nozzle plate and mounted on reels, e.g. cleaning ribbon cassettes

Family

Application15/285,293Parent of this continuation · filed 4 Oct 2016

Application15/860,448Parent of this continuation · filed 2 Jan 2018

US 9,889,669 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Feb 2018

US 10,357,973 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Jul 2019

US 2019/0270309 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Sep 2019

US 2017/0096008 A1Published application

US 2018/0126736 A1Published application

US 10,766,262 B2This patent

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Abstract

Claims19