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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2024
Takeyuki Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeyuki Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A wiping device includes a web, multiple pressing mechanisms, and circuitry. The web is windable in a winding direction and a rewinding direction, to wipe nozzle faces of multiple liquid discharge heads arranged in a width direction. The multiple pressing mechanisms are arranged in the width direction corresponding to the multiple liquid discharge heads. Each of the multiple pressing mechanisms is movable between a wiping position and a retracted position. The circuitry stores unused portion of the web at which a part of the multiple pressing mechanisms is at the retracted position during wiping, rewinds the web in the rewinding direction to cause the unused portion to face a part of the nozzle faces unwiped, and causes the part of the multiple pressing mechanisms corresponding to the unused portion to move to the wiping position to bring the unused portion into contact with the part of the nozzle faces unwiped.