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Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 26, 2020
Applicant:

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;

Inventors:

Yasuhiro Nakano, Nagoya, JP;

Zenichiro Sasaki, Nagoya, JP;

Yuta Toda, Nagoya, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/165 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/0451 (2013.01); B41J 2/16579 (2013.01);
Abstract

A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a liquid discharging head having nozzles; a purge mechanism which performs purge of discharging liquid from the nozzles; a signal outputting circuit which outputs signals depending on whether each of the nozzles is a failure nozzle which does not satisfy a predetermined discharging performance; a memory which stores, with respect to each of the nozzles, a value of an failure parameter regarding a number of times each of the nozzles is continuously determined to be the failure nozzle; and a controller. The controller performs failure nozzle determination with respect to at least a part of the nozzles as to whether each of at least the part of the nozzles is the failure nozzle, based on a signal from the signal outputting circuit, and updates the value of the failure parameter in the memory, based on a result of the failure nozzle determination.


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