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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2008
Filed:
May. 27, 2005
Applicant:
Toru Mizuno, Nagoya, JP;
Inventor:
Toru Mizuno, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/393 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An ink jet printer is provided with an ink jet head, a recovery device, a timer, and a controller. The ink jet head discharges ink. The recovery device executes a recovery action to recover an ink discharging ability of the ink jet head. The timer measures time since a last recovery action of the recovery device. The controller selects an interval based on a printing history of the ink jet printer and controls the recovery device to execute the recovery action when the time measured by the timer becomes equal to the selected interval. The recovery action is performed at an appropriate timing.