Cleaner of liquid discharger head and liquid discharger
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsShota Nishi, Yuji Yakura, Masayuki Takakura, Shinichi Horii
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Abstract
A cleaner of a liquid discharge head having a nozzle surface provided with a liquid discharge nozzle for discharging a predetermined liquid cleans the nozzle surface by moving relative to the liquid discharge head. It includes a cleaning roller for wiping the nozzle surface, the surface of the cleaning roller which comes into contact with the nozzle surface being formed of a fibrous absorbing member.
Claims8
A cleaner of a liquid discharge head having a nozzle surface provided with a liquid discharge nozzle for discharging a predetermined liquid, the cleaner cleaning the nozzle surface by moving relative to the liquid discharge head, the cleaner comprising:
- a cleaning roller for wiping the nozzle surface, the surface of the cleaning roller which comes into contact with the nozzle surface being formed of a fibrous absorbing member.
A liquid discharger for discharging a predetermined liquid from a liquid discharge nozzle, the liquid discharger comprising:
- a liquid discharge head having a nozzle surface provided with the liquid discharge nozzle for discharging the predetermined liquid;
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- a cleaner for cleaning the nozzle surface by moving relative to the liquid discharge head,
- wherein the cleaner includes a cleaning roller for wiping the nozzle surface, the surface of the cleaning roller which comes into contact with the nozzle surface of the liquid discharge head being formed of a fibrous absorbing member, and
- wherein the cleaning roller moves in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the nozzle surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.