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Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 23, 2019
Applicant:

Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;

Inventor:

Hiroshi Kobayashi, Nagano, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/16511 (2013.01); B41J 2/17563 (2013.01);
Abstract

An inkjet printing device includes: an ink head, having a nozzle hole opened in a nozzle surface; a carriage, being movable in a main scanning direction and in which multiple ink heads being arranged in the main scanning direction; and a capping mechanism. When the ink head is disposed at a standby position set within a movement range of the carriage, the capping mechanism brings the cap portion into contact with the nozzle surface to cover a region where the nozzle hole opened in the nozzle surface. The cap portion includes: an annular wall, surrounding a region where the nozzle hole opened in the nozzle surface; and a bottom wall portion, sealing an opening of the annular wall and being disposed with an interval from the nozzle surface. On an inner periphery of the annular wall, a slit directed toward the bottom wall portion is provided over the entire periphery.


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