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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Hiroaki Shirakawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuhei Oikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Satoshi Hayashi, Yokohama, JP;
Taku Yokozawa, Yokohama, JP;
Masaki Nitta, Yokohama, JP;
Yosuke Ishii, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/165 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17569 (2013.01); B41J 2002/16573 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17589 (2013.01); B41J 2/17566 (2013.01);
Abstract
An inkjet recording apparatus predicts the volume of air bubbles generated in a storage section of a recording head based on an input recording job. When the volume of the amount of ink in the storage section of the recording head is less than the predicted volume of air bubbles, a recovery operation is performed.