Inkjet recording apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsYasutaka Inui, Shuhei Kawamata
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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 includes a supply hole through which the cleaning liquid is discharged, and a mesh member provided inside an opening of the supply hole and having a mesh size smaller than the opening.
Claims6
An inkjet 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 movable with respect to the nozzle surface while being in contact with the nozzle surface to perform a wiping operation;
- and
- a cleaning liquid supply member which supplies a cleaning liquid to at least one of the nozzle surface and the blade, wherein
- the cleaning liquid supply member includes:
- a supply hole through which the cleaning liquid is discharged;
- and
- a mesh member provided inside an opening of the supply hole and having a mesh size smaller than the opening, wherein
- the mesh member has a size larger than the opening.
An inkjet 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 movable with respect to the nozzle surface while being in contact with the nozzle surface to perform a wiping operation;
- and
- a cleaning liquid supply member which supplies a cleaning liquid to at least one of the nozzle surface and the blade, wherein
- the cleaning liquid supply member includes:
- a supply hole through which the cleaning liquid is discharged;
- and
- a mesh member provided inside an opening of the supply hole and having a mesh size smaller than the opening, wherein
- a plurality of the mesh members is overlapped.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.