Recording apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsNobuhiro Katsuta, Hiroaki Satoh, Yoshihira Rai, Akira Mihara, Kenichi Kawauchi, Naoki Morita, Hiroshi Ikeda
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Abstract
A recording apparatus contains a recording head having a liquid droplet ejecting surface and ejecting a liquid droplet to a recording medium, a maintenance device disposed at a position opposite to the liquid droplet ejecting surface of the recording head, and a conveying unit which conveys the recording medium between the recording head and the maintenance device. The maintenance device has a liquid housing unit which houses the liquid droplet from the recording head, and a cleaning unit which cleans the liquid droplet ejecting surface of the recording head.
Claims33
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording head having a liquid droplet ejecting surface, the recording head ejecting a liquid droplet to a recording medium;
- a maintenance device disposed at a position opposite to the liquid droplet ejecting surface of the recording head;
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- a conveying unit which conveys the recording medium between the recording head and the maintenance device,
- the recording head having a printing width larger than a width of the recording medium, and
- the maintenance device comprising a liquid housing unit which houses the liquid droplet from the recording head, and a cleaning unit which cleans the liquid droplet ejecting surface of the recording head.
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording head array comprising a plurality of unit recording heads ejecting liquid droplets and arranged in a width direction of a conveyed recording medium with a constant interval;
- a cleaning unit that cleans a liquid droplet ejecting surface of the unit recording head;
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- a driving unit having a plurality of cleaning units that move integrally the cleaning units in an arranging direction of the plurality of unit recording heads or in a direction perpendicular to the arranging direction.
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording head having a liquid droplet ejecting surface, the recording head ejecting a liquid droplet to a recording medium;
- a maintenance device disposed at a position opposite to the liquid droplet ejecting surface of the recording head;
- a conveying unit which conveys the recording medium between the recording head and the maintenance device, and
- a removing member that removes contamination attached to the cleaning unit by contacting with the cleaning unit, disposed on a moving path of the cleaning unit,
- the maintenance device comprising a liquid housing unit which houses the liquid droplet from the recording head, and a cleaning unit which cleans the liquid droplet ejecting surface of the recording head, and
- the removing member comprising a first gantry shape flame disposed over first support and
- a liquid droplet absorbent attached to a lower surface of a beam of the first gantry shape flame and being in slidably contact with the cleaning unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.