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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kaneji Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Edamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 ;
Abstract
In a pre-ejected ink receiving device including a waste ink absorber for receiving ink dropped from a pre-ejection as waste ink, since ink mist flows are not controlled properly, the conventional ink-jet recording apparatus has a big problem of contamination, caused by flown up ink mist from a pre-eject port and flown out ink mist from a gap between the pre-eject port and the waste ink absorber, which is accumulated in the recording apparatus by repeated recording operation. A waste ink absorber with rough density to which an ink droplet ejected by the pre-ejection directly collides, solves the above-mentioned problem.