Inkjet recording device
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorSatoru Nakamura
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Abstract
An inkjet recording device includes a conveying unit, a recording unit, a device main body, and a control unit. The conveying unit includes an endless conveyor belt having many air holes for sucking air, and a sheet sucking unit. The sheet sucking unit is disposed inside a loop of the conveyor belt, and includes a fan for sucking air through the air holes and a fan drive motor. The recording unit includes a recording head disposed to face an outer circumference surface of the conveyor belt, so as to eject ink from ink ejection nozzles to the paper sheet sucked and held on the conveyor belt. The control unit executes a paper dust removing mode during image non-recording time, in which it rotates the fan drive motor by a power higher than that when conveying the paper sheet, so as to remove paper dust in the device main body.
Claims8
An inkjet recording device comprising:
- a conveying unit to convey a paper sheet, including an endless conveyor belt with many air holes for sucking air, and a sheet sucking unit disposed inside a loop of the conveyor belt, the sheet sucking unit having a fan for sucking air through the air holes and a fan drive motor for rotating the fan so as to suck and hold the paper sheet on the conveyor belt;
- a recording unit including a recording head disposed to face an outer circumference surface of the conveyor belt, so as to eject ink to the paper sheet sucked and held on the conveyor belt, from ink ejection nozzles of the recording head;
- a device main body accommodating the conveying unit and the recording unit;
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- a control unit for controlling the conveying unit and the recording unit, wherein
- the control unit executes a paper dust removing mode during image non-recording time, so as to remove paper dust in the device main body by rotating the fan drive motor by a power higher than that when conveying the paper sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.