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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2022
Screen Holdings Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Susumu Takahashi, Kyoto, JP;
Osamu Morizono, Kyoto, JP;
SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
The maintenance unit is configured to be movable in the X direction, and moves between the facing position La facing the ejection head and the separation position Lb away from the ejection head in the X direction. Provided is the imaging part configured to image the imaging range Ri provided on the side of the separation position Lb relative to the facing position La in the X direction and the imaging part images at least part of the maintenance unit which overlaps the imaging range Ri to acquire the unit image I. In other words, the unit image Irepresenting the condition of the maintenance unit can be acquired by the imaging part.