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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2008
Toshihide Nagamine, Toukai, JP;
Akira Miyao, Hitachi, JP;
Seiji Fujikura, Toukai, JP;
Tadayuki Matsuda, Hitachi, JP;
Hiroshi Kotabe, Hitachi, JP;
Tomohiro Inoue, Tsukuba, JP;
Toshihide Nagamine, Toukai, JP;
Akira Miyao, Hitachi, JP;
Seiji Fujikura, Toukai, JP;
Tadayuki Matsuda, Hitachi, JP;
Hiroshi Kotabe, Hitachi, JP;
Tomohiro Inoue, Tsukuba, JP;
Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording device, comprises: a main body equipped with an ink container which accumulate ink, an ink supply pump which supplies the ink, an ink recovery pump which recovers the ink, and a control unit; a printing head equipped with a nozzle which jets the ink supplied from the main body as ink particles, an electrification electrode which electrifies the ink particles, a deflection electrode which deflects the electrified ink particles, and a gutter which collects ink particles which are not used for printing; and a cable in which an ink supply flow path for supplying the ink from the main body to the printing head, an ink recovery flow path for returning the ink particles collected by the gutter into the ink container, an exhaust circulation path which connects the ink container and the gutter, and various signal lines for connecting the control unit and the printing head, are arranged. The gutter comprises two members of an ink flow path block in which ink flows, and exhaust flow path block in which exhaust solvent vapor flows.