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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2018
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kyosuke Deguchi, Yokohama, JP;
Toru Yamane, Yokohama, JP;
Atsushi Sakamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Satoshi Masuda, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshiyuki Honda, Yokohama, JP;
Ryosuke Hirokawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Akihiro Mouri, Fuchu, JP;
Toru Ohnishi, Yokohama, JP;
Noboru Toyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording apparatus including: an image forming unit that forms a first image containing a first liquid and a coloring material on a transfer body; and a liquid absorbing device including a liquid absorbing member having a porous body coming in contact with the first image to at least partially absorb the first liquid from the first image, and a cleaning member coming in contact with the porous body to clean the porous body wherein surface free energy Yof the transfer body, surface free energy Yof the porous body, surface free energy Yof the cleaning member, and a dispersion force component Yof surface free energy of the first image satisfy the following Equation (1):||  (1).