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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2013
Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Mamoru Okano, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Miyao, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Arima, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuo Igari, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink that is unused for printing when a supply ink from an ink container is ejected from a nozzle, and printing is conducted on an object to be printed is sucked by a gutter together with an air, and the ink and air are recovered into the ink container. In this situation, the air mixed with an ink solvent and recovered is discharged as an exhaust gas from the ink container by an exhaust path, and at this time, the ink mist is removed from the exhaust gas in which a liquefaction ink solvent liquefied within the exhaust path and the ink mist are mixed together by an ink mist mixture unit. Thereafter, the liquid is held by the aid of a capillary action, and separated from the gas in a gas-liquid separator to recover the separated liquefaction ink solvent.