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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021

Filed:

May. 27, 2020
Applicant:

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Noriaki Furukawa, Osaka, JP;

Takashi Somete, Osaka, JP;

Chikara Ishihara, Osaka, JP;

Hiroyuki Ueda, Osaka, JP;

Hiroomi Nakatsuji, Osaka, JP;

Issei Nakano, Osaka, JP;

Aiichiro Otana, Osaka, JP;

Jun Nakano, Osaka, JP;

Yasutaka Inui, Osaka, JP;

Takuma Araki, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/16552 (2013.01); B41J 2002/16555 (2013.01); B41J 2002/16558 (2013.01); B41J 2002/16591 (2013.01);
Abstract

An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a wiper member, a cleaning liquid supply device, a cleaning liquid flow path, and a controller. The cleaning liquid flow path includes a vertical tubular member connected to the cleaning liquid supply device and extending upward, and a horizontal tubular member connected to an upper end of the vertical tubular member and extending in a horizontal direction. The controller extrudes a cleaning liquid in at least a part of the cleaning liquid flow path from a cleaning liquid supply port before control of a cleaning operation for wiping an ink ejection surface of the recording head, thereby performing control of an air bubble release operation of the cleaning liquid flow path.


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