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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2010
Shunji Yamaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigeyoshi Hirashima, Kanagawa, JP;
Shunji Yamaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigeyoshi Hirashima, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus including nozzles that discharge liquid; a liquid discharge head including nozzle arrays where the nozzles are arranged in one direction; a liquid adsorbent that adsorbs liquid attached to a portion of the liquid discharge head where the nozzle arrays are formed; a moving unit that relatively moves the liquid adsorbent in an arrangement direction of the nozzles; support rollers that support the liquid adsorbent so as to allow the liquid adsorbent to rotate; a rotating shaft corresponding to the axis of rotation of the support roller and rotated in a normal or reverse direction using the relative movement of the liquid adsorbent, which is caused by the moving unit, as a source of power, and a reverse rotation preventing unit that transmits the normal rotation of the rotating shaft to the support roller and does not transmit the reverse rotation of the rotating shaft to the support roller.