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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. 07, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2022
Applicant:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Daihua Zhang, Los Altos, CA (US);

Kang Luo, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Kazuya Daito, Milpitas, CA (US);

Kenneth S. Ledford, San Jose, CA (US);

Elsa Massonneau, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Alexey Stepanov, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ludovic Godet, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Mahendran Chidambaram, Saratoga, CA (US);

Visweswaren Sivaramakrishnan, Cupertino, CA (US);

Bahubali S. Upadhye, Bangalore, IN;

Hemantha Raju, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/1652 (2013.01); B41J 2/16547 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments described herein relate to an inkjet service station and methods of servicing an inkjet printer with the inkjet service station. The inkjet service station is disposed in an inkjet printer of an inkjet chamber. The inkjet service station is operable to perform servicing operations on a processing apparatus of the inkjet printer. The servicing operations include at least one of printhead spitting, printhead purging, printhead flushing, printhead cleaning, printhead drying, or vacuum suction.


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