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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2000
Ravi Sharma, Fairport, NY (US);
Todd R. Griffin, Rochester, NY (US);
Charles F. Faisst, Avon, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A self-cleaning printer system ( ) with cleaning liquid ( ) and cleaning mechanism ( ) with a rotating disk cleaning assembly ( ) can be used to remove contaminants from a print head ( ) in the self-cleaning ink jet printer system ( ). A rotating disk cleaning assembly ( ) is disposed relative to the surface ( ) of a print head ( ) for directing a flow of cleaning liquid ( ) along the surface ( ) and to direct sliding contact of a disk ( ) to clean the contaminants from the surface ( ). The rotating disk cleaning assembly ( ) is configured to introduce cleaning liquid ( ) to the print head surface ( ) to facilitate and augment cleaning by the disk ( ). Flow of the cleaning liquid ( ) is facilitated by vacuum pump ( ) which directs cleaning liquid ( ) from a cleaning liquid reservoir ( ) to the rotating disk cleaning assembly ( ).