Maintenance apparatus for vaporizing device
AssigneeFunai Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsSam NORASAK, Michael A. MARRA, III
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Abstract
An apparatus for a fluidic ejection device and a fluidic ejection device containing the apparatus. The apparatus includes a pivot member having at least a first position and a second position, a shaft attached on a first end thereof to the pivot member and on a second end distal from the first end to a capping structure, wherein pivot of the pivot member pivots the capping structure from a first capped position to a second uncapped position adjacent an ejection head of the fluidic ejection device.
Claims16
An apparatus for a fluidic ejection device comprising a pivot member having at least a first position and a second position, a shaft attached on a first end thereof to the pivot member and on a second end distal from the first end to a capping structure, wherein pivot of the pivot member pivots the capping structure from a first capped position to a second uncapped position adjacent an ejection head of the fluidic ejection device.
A fluidic ejection device comprising a fluidic ejection head in fluid flow communication with a fluid reservoir, a heater for vaporizing fluid ejected from the fluidic ejection head, an exit conduit in flow communication from the heater, an ejection head capping structure disposed between the heater and the fluidic ejection head, and a selection device connected to the ejection head capping structure for moving the capping structure from a first capped position to a second uncapped position adjacent the fluidic ejection head.
The fluidic ejection device of 14, wherein the pivot member is pivoted about the exit conduit from the first position to the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.