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US 2007/0176963 A1Published application
Liquid ejection apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorKoji Morikoshi
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Abstract
A liquid ejection apparatus includes: an ejection head that ejects a liquid from a nozzle; a cap that can seal an opening of the nozzle; an absorber disposed in the cap; a first ejection unit that allows to perform a first ejection operation toward the cap for maintenance of the nozzle; a suction unit that sucks the liquid from the cap; a second ejection unit that allows to perform a second ejection operation for replenishing the cap with a liquid before the suction, and a capping unit that covers the opening of the nozzle by the cap after the second ejection operation is performed.
Claims12
A liquid ejection apparatus comprising:
- an ejection head that ejects a liquid from a nozzle;
- a cap that can seal an opening of the nozzle;
- an absorber disposed in the cap;
- a first ejection unit that allows to perform a first ejection operation toward the cap for maintenance of the nozzle;
- a suction unit that sucks the liquid from the cap;
- a second ejection unit that allows to perform a second ejection operation for replenishing the cap with a liquid before the suction, and
- a capping unit that covers the opening of the nozzle by the cap after the second ejection operation is performed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.