CLEANING METHOD AND FLUID JETTING APPARATUS

Title:

CLEANING METHOD AND FLUID JETTING APPARATUS

Document Type and Number:

Japanese Patent JP2011161687

Kind Code:

A

Abstract:

To provide a cleaning method capable of discharging air bubbles while suppressing consumption of a fluid, and to provide a fluid jetting apparatus.

The cleaning method for a printer includes: a fluid jetting head 24 provided with a plurality of nozzle openings for jetting ink; an ink feeding tube for feeding the ink toward the fluid jetting head 24 side; an opening/closing valve provided on the ink feeding tube; and a capping apparatus 41 for pressure-reducing a space region R outside a nozzle opening. The cleaning method includes: a valve closing process for making the opening/closing valve under a valve closing condition; and a vacuum process in which after the valve closing process, a negative pressure is generated in the space region R by a capping apparatus 41, to expand and making out the ink from the nozzle 25.

Inventors:

MATSUMOTO DAISUKE
YAMADA YOICHI
KOBASHI MASARU

Application Number:

JP2010024817A

Publication Date:

August 25, 2011

Filing Date:

February 05, 2010

Export Citation:

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Assignee:

SEIKO EPSON CORP

International Classes:

B41J2/18; B05C5/00; B05C11/10; B41J2/185

Domestic Patent References:

JP2009148928A	2009-07-09
JPH05517A	1993-01-08

Attorney, Agent or Firm:

Hironobu Onda
Makoto Onda

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