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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2015
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Ozaki, Ashigarakami-gun, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An inkjet head cleaning device for an inkjet head having a nozzle surface on which nozzles for ejecting ink are arranged, includes a wiping member traveling unit allowing a wiping member of elongated shape having absorbency to travel along a conveying path in a longitudinal direction, a cleaning liquid supply unit supplying a cleaning liquid to the wiping member, a pressing unit pressing and bringing the wiping member supplied with the cleaning liquid to and into contact with the nozzle surface, and a sliding unit relatively sliding the wiping member and the nozzle surface, in which the nozzle surface is cleaned by putting a state of a mixed liquid of the ink and the cleaning liquid at a contacting portion between the wiping member and the nozzle surface into a state satisfying a predetermined relationship represented by a relationship between a surface tension and viscosity of the mixed liquid.