Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Ejector mechanism
Patent
1993-06-28
1997-12-16
Tran, Huan H.
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Ejector mechanism
347 32, 347 33, 347 36, B41J 2165
Patent
active
056990928
ABSTRACT:
An ink-jet recording device in which a capping device a and cleaning device can be made as compact as possible. The ink-jet recording device includes a capping device which is disposed out of a printing area and, when pushed by a recording head or a carriage carrying the recording head, can be moved between a non-capping position and a capping position, a cam surface and a cam follower which, in a process where the recording head is moved from the non-capping position to the capping position, shift the capping device to the nozzle surface of the recording head, a cleaning device which is swingably mounted to the capping device by device of shafts and is movable between a non-cleaning position and a cleaning position in accordance with the movement of the recording head, and a suction pump which supplies a negative pressure to the capping device to thereby suck out ink within a cap member into a waste ink tank. In the ink-jet recording device, the capping device and cleaning device can be selectively moved to and from a recording head moving path only by device of the movement of the carriage.
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Fukasawa Shigenori
Iida Katsuhiko
Kawakami Kazuhisa
Oki Narihiro
Takahashi Nobuhito
Seiko Epson Corporation
Tran Huan H.
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