US 2020/0369032 A1Published application

Cap, head maintenance device, and liquid discharge apparatus

AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.

InventorsTetsu MORINO, Shingo MASAOKA

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Abstract

A cap for capping a nozzle surface of liquid discharge head, the cap includes a rod in the cap. The rod has a circular outer shape or a polygonal outer shape in a cross-section perpendicular to an axial direction of the rod.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A cap for capping a nozzle surface of a liquid discharge head, the cap comprising a rod in the cap,

wherein the rod has a circular outer shape or a polygonal outer shape in a cross-section perpendicular to an axial direction of the rod.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/846,742Filed 13 Apr 2020
Priority: JP 2019-09631222 May 2019
Published: 26 Nov 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B41J 2/16517
Prevention or detection of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles: cleaning of print head nozzles
B41J 2/16508
Caps, spittoons or covers for cleaning or preventing drying out: connected with the printer frame
B41J 2/16511
Connected with the printer frame: constructions for cap positioning
B41J 2/16523
By driving a fluid through the nozzles to the outside thereof, e.g. by applying pressure to the inside or vacuum at the outside of the print head:…

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