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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2020
Applicant:
Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Katsuhiro Umeda, Toyohashi, JP;
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/16538 (2013.01); B41J 2002/16573 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cleaning apparatus carries ink ejected from an inkjet head and cleans a transfer body that transfers the ink onto a recording medium at a transfer nip, and the cleaning apparatus includes: a cleaning rotor that contacts the transfer body and rotates in a counter direction opposite to a moving direction of the transfer body to remove a pre-coating agent and an impurity present on the transfer body after transfer.