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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1986
Kiyoshi Yamamori, Yokohama, JP;
Shigeyoshi Hasegawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuuji Mogi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tamotsu Kojima, Ibaraki, JP;
Sadashi Higuchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An ink ejection recording apparatus is disclosed which comprises a plurality of ink ejection heads commonly connected to an ink tank, each of the ink ejection heads having an ink nozzle through which minute ink droplets are discharged in accordance with an electric signal and an air nozzle opposing to the ink nozzle and adapted for forming an air stream which accelerates the ink droplets towards a recording medium so as to record an image on the recording medium by means of the droplets. The ink ejection heads are arranged at different heights and the ink ejection heads have different levels of balance pressure so that the levels of the ink pressure acting on the ink nozzles of the ink ejection head are equalized in the operating state of the apparatus. Pressure relieving means are provided for relieving pneumatic pressure applied to the ink ejection heads and to the ink tank and being arranged such that relief of pressure from said ink tank is conducted after relief of pressure from said ink ejection heads.