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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2023
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Aiichiro Otana, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a conveyance belt, a control portion, an ink collector, and a suction portion. The ink collector includes a plurality of ink receivers that receives ink that has passed through openings of the conveyance belt during execution of flushing and a suction path leading from each of the ink receivers to the suction portion. The suction path includes a plurality of first flow paths each connected to each of the plurality of ink receivers, a merging chamber in which the plurality of first flow paths merges together and that is linked to the suction portion, and ink separation walls that are provided in the merging chamber and are impinged on by airflows that have passed through the first flow paths so that the ink contained in the airflows is separated from the airflows.