Image Forming Apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorSatoru OSAWA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a main tank that stores ink; a first storage tank that stores the ink supplied from the main tank; an ink head that ejects the ink; a first supply channel for supplying the ink from the main tank to the first storage tank; a second supply channel for supplying the ink from the first storage tank to the ink head; a heating section that is provided in the first supply channel and heats the ink; and a circulation channel for returning the ink in the second supply channel to a part, located between the main tank and the heating section, of the first supply channel.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main tank that stores ink;
- a first storage tank that stores the ink supplied from the main tank;
- an ink head that ejects the ink;
- a first supply channel for supplying the ink from the main tank to the first storage tank;
- a second supply channel for supplying the ink from the first storage tank to the ink head;
- a heating section that is provided in the first supply channel and heats the ink;
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- a circulation channel for returning the ink in the second supply channel to a part, located between the main tank and the heating section, of the first supply channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.