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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2016
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuto Suzuki, Nagano, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2006.01); B41J 2/17 (2006.01); B41J 2/185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/16517 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a printing apparatus, ink mist resulting from ink discharge is suctioned by a fan and moves along a flow path (recovery path) formed by alternating ribs in a recovery unit, and the ribs have a width becoming increasingly smaller as a downstream side of the flow path (recovery path) is approached.