Maintenance device and inkjet recording apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsYiquan Nie, Takashi Somete
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Abstract
A maintenance device includes: a cap to be attached to a nozzle surface of an inkjet head; and a supply portion which accumulates a humidifying medium therein, generates humidified air by causing air to pass through the humidifying medium, and supplies the humidified air to the cap via an air supply pipe that is in communication with the cap, and inside the supply portion, the air supply pipe is provided along an up-down direction in a space higher than a fluid level of the humidifying medium and is provided with a cut on at least an inner surface side of a pipe wall of the air supply pipe.
Claims5
A maintenance device, comprising:
- a cap to be attached to a nozzle surface of an inkjet head;
- and
- a supply portion which accumulates a humidifying medium therein, generates humidified air by causing air to pass through the humidifying medium, and supplies the humidified air to the cap via an air supply pipe that is in communication with the cap, wherein
- inside the supply portion, the air supply pipe is provided along an up-down direction in a space higher than a fluid level of the humidifying medium and is provided with a cut on at least an inner surface side of a pipe wall of the air supply pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.