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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2020
Keyence Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Mamoru Idaka, Osaka, JP;
Atsushi Kitamura, Osaka, JP;
KEYENCE CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording apparatus I includes a printing headconfigured to house, on the inside, a nozzle, a charging electrode, a deflection electrode, and a gutter, a maintenance-pattern storing unitconfigured to store, respectively in association with types of abnormalities, a plurality of kinds of maintenance operations executable in the ink jet recording apparatus I, a flag storing unitconfigured to store occurrence of an abnormality in the ink jet recording apparatus I as an error flag corresponding to a type of the abnormality, and a control unitconfigured to select, based on the type of the abnormality corresponding to the error flag stored in the flag storing unit, one maintenance operation out of the plurality of kinds of maintenance operations stored in the maintenance-pattern storing unitand execute the maintenance operation.