Title:
【発明の名称】連続印刷インク噴射ノズルの洗浄流体装置および方法
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH11505481
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
A fluid (liquid or water) wash is used to clean the front surface of an ink jet printer cartridge. In addition, a nozzle plate that overlies the nozzle shields the nozzle array from the splatter of ink. In ink jet printers, ink droplets are propelled from an array of orifices in a nozzle plate in the printer head. During the ink droplet ejection, ink is sprayed or deposited around the orifices. The ink droplets are deposited on a paper web adjacent the nozzle and mist from the droplets drifts back to coat the face of the nozzle plate. Some ink seeps behind the nozzle plate onto the array of nozzle orifices. The ink coating attracts particles that tend to clog the nozzle orifices. The ink coating is washed away by fluid streams that flow over the nozzle surface and in some embodiments flow over the nozzle orifices themselves. The fluid may be water, ink or other liquid that is channelled across the nozzle surface, or the fluid may be an air stream that blows across the nozzle surface.
Inventors:
Hahn, henk
Rowland, Roger Jay.
Moschato, Anthony Vie.
Chapin, Kenneth See..
Grazano, Mike Ray.
Parov, Paul Jay.
Rowland, Roger Jay.
Moschato, Anthony Vie.
Chapin, Kenneth See..
Grazano, Mike Ray.
Parov, Paul Jay.
Application Number:
JP53406296A
Publication Date:
May 21, 1999
Filing Date:
April 09, 1996
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Moore Business Forms Incorporated
International Classes:
B41J2/165; (IPC1-7): B41J2/165
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hidekazu Miyoshi (1 outside)