The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

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:
Aug. 02, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 29, 2021
Applicant:

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;

Inventors:

Yuta Toda, Nagoya, JP;

Zenichiro Sasaki, Nagoya, JP;

Yasuhiro Nakano, Nagoya, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/135 (2006.01); B41J 2/125 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/0451 (2013.01); B41J 2/135 (2013.01); B41J 2/125 (2013.01);
Abstract

A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection head having an array of nozzles each configured to eject liquid, a storage, and a controller. The storage stores first data including distribution patterns and causes of an ejection failure and second data including causes of an ejection failure and maintenance manners. In a case where the nozzles include a failure nozzle, the controller determines a cause of a currently-occurring ejection failure based on the first data, perform maintenance in a first maintenance manner associated with the cause based on the second data. In a case where the currently-occurring ejection failure due to the cause has been recovered a predetermined number of times by maintenance in the first maintenance manner, the controller is configured to change the first maintenance manner associated with the cause to a second maintenance manner in the second data.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…