Cap device and discharge device
AssigneeFuji Corporation
InventorShunji Morikawa
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Abstract
A cap device is used in a discharge device including a discharge head configured to discharge a liquid substance from a nozzle, and the cap device includes a wet cap body including a fixing portion configured to abut on the nozzle in a wet state and cap the nozzle, and a cap support section configured to position the wet cap body and detachably support the wet cap body.
Claims12
A cap device used in a discharge device including a discharge head configured to discharge a liquid substance from a nozzle, the cap device comprising:
- a wet cap body including a fixing portion configured to abut on the nozzle in a wet state, the wet cap body being configured to cap the nozzle;
- a dry cap section disposed to overlap between the nozzle and the wet cap body along a capping direction in which the nozzle is capped, the dry cap section being configured to cap the nozzle;
- a retracting section configured to retract the dry cap section in a direction different from a capping direction;
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- a cap support section configured to position the wet cap body and detachably support the wet cap body.
A cap device used in a discharge device including a discharge head configured to discharge a liquid substance from a nozzle, the cap device comprising:
- a wet cap body including a fixing portion configured to abut on the nozzle in a wet state, the wet cap body being configured to cap the nozzle;
- a dry cap section disposed to overlap between the nozzle and the wet cap body along a capping direction in which the nozzle is capped, the dry cap section being configured to cap the nozzle;
- a moving section configured to move the dry cap section, the wet cap body, and the nozzle along the capping direction so that the dry cap section and the wet cap body are close to and separated from the nozzle;
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- a retracting section configured to retract the dry cap section in a direction different from the capping direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.