Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fumihiko Watanabe

Atsushi Saito

Takeshi Ono

Akio Okubo

Yasuyuki Shinada

Yasuhiko Ikeda

Akiro Okubo

A recording unit cartridge includes as a unit: a recording head for ejecting ink to effect recording; an ink supply system for supplying the ink to the recording head; a capping member for covering an ink ejection side surface of the recording head; an ink collecting member for the ink discharged to recover the recording head and not used for recording; a cleaning member for cleaning the ink ejection side surface of the recording head; and a casing for containing as a unit the head system and members, wherein the unit cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of a recording apparatus.

Ink jet apparatus having a recording unit cartridge including a

An image communication apparatus includes a communication unit for communicating a procedure signal associated with communication, and image data, a recording unit for ejecting a liquid droplet onto a recording member in accordance with image data received by the communication unit, a recovery unit for performing a predetermined recovery operation of the recording unit, and a control unit for causing the recovery unit to perform the recovery operation in accordance with a predetermined procedure signal communicated before reception of the image data.

Facsimile apparatus with ink ejection recording means recoverable prior

A wiping apparatus for a recording head of an ink jet recording apparatus, which has a recording head including an ink ejection portion, includes a wiping member, and a rotation device for rotating the recording head and/or the wiping member so that the wiping member slides on the ink ejection portion. The apparatus prevents the splash of ink caused when the wiping member leaves the ink ejection portion by using one of the following techniques: First, a wiping speed is decreased at the end of wiping; second, an angle between the wiping member and the ink ejection portion is declined as the wiping proceeds; third, the first and second techniques are combined; and fourth, an approach amount of the wiping member to the ink ejection portion is reduced at least just before the wiping member leaves the ink ejection portion. Using one of these technique enables the wiping member to leave softly the ink ejection portion by weakening the restoring force of the wiping member, thereby preventing ink from splashing into the surroundings during the wiping operation.

Apparatus and method for wiping an ink jet recording head with control

A recording apparatus which records on a recording medium. The recording apparatus includes a recording head which prints on a recording medium, a body of revolution which is rotatably mounted, and a platen roller capable of being displaced in the recording head direction and in the body of revolution peripheral direction. The platen roller is positioned against the recording head.

Recording apparatus

A recovery system comprises a cap means for covering the discharging ports of a recording head to perform recording by discharging ink, and a wiper assembly for wiping the discharging port face of the recording head, the wiper assembly being a large-sized wiping member and a small-sized wiping member, wherein the small-sized wiping member is first in contact with the discharging port face of the recording head. A guide member guides the recording head and the cap at the time of mating and a holder holds the recording head and cap, which holder holds the recording head and said cap in such a manner that they can relatively be displaced in the direction crossing the contacting direction thereof. A cap unit with the cap and wiper assembly can be rotated within a rotational area of the recording head. Wiping by the wiper assembly is performed in such a manner that following the rotation of the recording head, the small-sized wiping member is first in contact therewith and subsequently, the large-sized wiping member is in contact therewith.

Recovery system and ink jet recording apparatus provided with said

A capping device to be used with an ink jet recording apparatus for recording on a recording medium by discharging ink onto the recording medium comprises a capping member for covering a discharge port of an ink jet recording head for discharging ink to effect the recording on the recording medium and a pushing member provided on the capping member at an inner side thereof for pushing with pressure against the discharge port of the ink jet recording head. An ink jet recording apparatus is disclosed using the capping device.

Capping means and ink jet recording apparatus using the same

An image communication apparatus includes a communication unit for communicating a procedure signal associated with communication, and image data, a recording unit for ejecting a liquid droplet onto a recording member in accordance with image data received by the communication unit, a recovery unit for performing a predetermined recovery operation of the recording unit, and a control unit for determining according to a type of procedure signal transmitted from a calling side after reception of image data of one page whether or not the recovery operation by the recovery unit is executed.

Facsimile apparatus with ink ejection recording means recoverable

An image communication apparatus includes a communication unit for communicating a procedure signal associated with communication, and image data, a recording unit for ejecting a liquid droplet to a recording member in accordance with image data received by the communication unit, a recovery unit for performing a predetermined recovery operation of the recording unit, and a control unit for, when reception is successively performed immediately after completion of transmission by the communication unit, driving the recovery unit in accordance with a predetermined procedure signal.

Image communication apparatus

An ink jet recording apparatus includes a full-line type recording head having plural ejection outlets; a shaft for rotatably supporting the recording head between a recording position in which the ink is ejected in a non-vertical direction and a non-recording position in which the ink is ejected substantially vertically; a device, disposed adjacent a recording position of the recording head, contributable to feeding of the recording material; and a positioning plate press-contacted to the contributable device to confine a recording surface of the recording material in cooperation with the contributable device.

Ink jet recording apparatus

An ink jet recording apparatus which records on a recording medium by discharging ink on a recording medium. The ink jet recording apparatus comprises an ink jet recording head which discharges ink to record on a recording medium, a conveyance route which leads the recording medium in the exhaust direction passing above the recording head, and a cap which covers the discharge ports of the recording head provided below the ink jet recording head.

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Yokohama, Japan

Fumihiko Watanabe