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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2013
Applicant:
Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Inventor:
Shunsuke Akuta, Nagano, JP;
Assignee:
MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Nagano, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/16535 (2013.01); B41J 2/16538 (2013.01); B41J 2/16541 (2013.01); B41J 2/16552 (2013.01); B41J 2002/16558 (2013.01);
Abstract
It is an object of the invention to provide an inkjet recording device that can clean a blade of a wiper to which ink had adhered, whereby nozzle clogging in an inkjet head and ink color mixing are prevented to enable recording with high image quality. As a solution, an inkjet recording device () according to the present invention includes a wiping unit () that wipes off ink by sliding a blade () on a nozzle surface () of an inkjet head (); and a cleaning unit () that performs cleaning by pouring cleaning liquid on the blade ().