Inkjet recording apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsYasutaka Inui, Shuhei Kawamata
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an inkjet head, a blade and a cleaning liquid supply member. The inkjet head is provided with a nozzle surface on which ink ejection ports of a plurality of nozzles are opened. The blade is movable in contact with the nozzle surface. The cleaning liquid supply member supplies a cleaning liquid to at least one of the nozzle surface and the blade. The cleaning liquid supply member has a lower surface. On the lower surface, an opening through which the cleaning liquid is discharged and a protrusion with which the cleaning liquid discharged through the opening can be in contact are formed.
Claims7
An ink jet recording apparatus comprising:
- an inkjet head provided with a nozzle surface on which ink ejection ports of a plurality of nozzles are opened;
- a blade which is movable in contact with the nozzle surface in a moving direction from a moving start position to a moving end position;
- and
- a cleaning liquid supply member which stores a cleaning liquid and supplies the cleaning liquid to the blade moving in the moving direction from the moving start position, wherein
- the cleaning liquid supply member has a lower surface, and
- the lower surface has at least one opening through which the cleaning liquid is discharged and at least one protrusion which is disposed on an upstream side of the opening in the moving direction and to which the cleaning liquid leaked through the opening and flowed through the lower surface gathers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.