Image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorYoichi KAWABATA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes an ejecting head including a nozzle from which an ink is ejected; a wiper member configured to wipe ink from a surface of the nozzle of the ejecting head; a wiper cleaning portion configured to remove an ink attached to the wiper member when the wiper member is pressed against the wiper cleaning portion, a scraping member actuated in a longitudinal direction of the wiper cleaning portion reciprocatively, and configured to scrape ink attached to the wiper cleaning portion; and a cleaning member configured to remove ink accumulated on the top portion of the scraping member.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an ejecting head including a nozzle from which an ink is ejected;
- a wiper member configured to wipe ink from a surface of the nozzle of the ejecting head;
- a wiper cleaning portion configured to remove an ink attached to the wiper member when the wiper member is pressed against the wiper cleaning portion,
- a scraping member actuated in a longitudinal direction of the wiper cleaning portion reciprocatively, and configured to scrape ink attached to the wiper cleaning portion;
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- a cleaning member configured to remove ink accumulated on the top portion of the scraping member.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an ejecting head including a nozzle from which an ink is ejected;
- a wiper member configured to wipe ink from a surface of the nozzle of the ejecting head;
- a wiper cleaning portion configured to remove an ink attached to the wiper member when the wiper member is pressed against the wiper cleaning portion,
- a scraping member actuated in a longitudinal direction of the wiper cleaning portion reciprocatively, and configured to scrape ink attached to the wiper cleaning portion;
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- a cleaning means for removing ink accumulated on the top portion of the scraping member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.