Liquid discharge apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsTeppei Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Yamashita, Yasunobu Takagi, Nanami Takano, Kaoru Satoh
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Abstract
A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a liquid discharge head having a discharge face having a nozzle from which a liquid is discharged to a medium; a carriage, to which the liquid discharge head is mountable, and reciprocally movable in a main-scanning direction; a guide supporting the carriage to guide the carriage to move in the main-scanning direction; a cap to contact and seal the discharge face of the liquid discharge head; a suction device connected to the cap; and a cap cleaner, supported and guided by the guide to move in the main-scanning direction, to drop a cleaning liquid to the cap.
Claims19
A liquid discharge apparatus comprising:
- a liquid discharge head having a discharge face having a nozzle from which a liquid is discharged to a medium;
- a carriage, to which the liquid discharge head is mountable, and reciprocally movable in a main-scanning direction;
- a guide supporting the carriage to guide the carriage to move in the main-scanning direction;
- a cap to contact and seal the discharge face of the liquid discharge head;
- a suction device connected to the cap;
- and
- a cap cleaner, supported and guided by the guide to move in the main-scanning direction, to drop a cleaning liquid to the cap,
- wherein the cap cleaner includes:
- a dropper to drop the cleaning liquid to the cap;
- a channel connected to the dropper to supply the cleaning liquid to the dropper;
- and
- a holder holding the channel and the dropper.
A liquid discharge apparatus, comprising:
- a liquid discharge head having a discharge face having a nozzle from which a liquid is discharged to a medium;
- a carriage, to which the liquid discharge head is mountable, and reciprocally movable in a main-scanning direction;
- a guide supporting the carriage to guide the carriage to move in the main-scanning direction;
- a cap to contact and seal the discharge face of the liquid discharge head;
- a suction device connected to the cap;
- and
- a cap cleaner, supported and guided by the guide to move in the main-scanning direction, to drop a cleaning liquid to the cap,
- wherein the cap cleaner is detachably attachable to the guide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.