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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2007
Tadanobu Chikamoto, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroshi Taira, Ichinomiya, JP;
Tadanobu Chikamoto, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroshi Taira, Ichinomiya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A head cap for protecting an ink ejecting face of an ink-jet head may be provided with a plate member. The plate member may be opposed to the ink ejecting face. The head cap may include a flexible, continuous lip, which projects from one surface of the plate member. Recesses may be formed in the one surface of the plate member. Through-holes may be formed through the bottom walls of the recesses, respectively. Films may further be used where each covers the associated through-hole and is joined partially to a circumferential edge portion of the associated recess.