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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 24, 1995
Koji Terasawa, Mitaka, JP;
Katsuyuki Yokoi, Yokohama, JP;
Makoto Takemura, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Fukazawa, Yokohama, JP;
Tetsuji Kurata, Yokohama, JP;
Koichiro Kawaguchi, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuhiko Shinoda, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording apparatus, for recording information on a recording medium, comprises a recording head having an ink ejection outlet for ejecting ink and an ejection recovery unit for ensuring satisfactory ejection from the ink ejection outlet. The ejection recovery unit has a housing, a cap disposed on one side of the housing for capping the ink ejection outlet, and a pump disposed on the other side of the housing and linked to the cap through a tube for sucking ink. In relation to the position of the ejection recovery unit, the tube is disposed so that it has a part bending upward in a vertical direction, and the pump is disposed so that an ink outlet thereof opens downward in a vertical direction.