US 12,391,047 B2
Inkjet recording apparatus
Yuko Yano, Osaka (JP); Hiroomi Nakatsuji, Osaka (JP); Jun Nakano, Osaka (JP); Issei Nakano, Osaka (JP); Takashi Somete, Osaka (JP); Chikara Ishihara, Osaka (JP); Noriaki Furukawa, Osaka (JP); and Takuma Araki, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 18/553,683
Filed by KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 25, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/014462
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 2, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/215552, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 13, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-065053 (JP), filed on Apr. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0198683 A1, Jun. 20, 2024
Int. Cl. B41J 2/17 (2006.01); B41J 2/165 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/1714 (2013.01) [B41J 2/1652 (2013.01); B41J 2/16552 (2013.01); B41J 2/1707 (2013.01); B41J 2/1721 (2013.01); B41J 2/2103 (2013.01); B41J 2/16585 (2013.01); B41J 2002/16591 (2013.01); B41J 2002/16594 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inkjet recording apparatus, comprising:
a recording head including a plurality of nozzles for ejecting ink;
a conveyance belt that has a plurality of first openings and conveys a recording medium;
a control portion that controls driving of the recording head and the conveyance belt so as to execute flushing in which, at a timing different from a timing contributing to image recording, the ink is ejected through the nozzles of the recording head to pass through any of the plurality of first openings;
an ink receiver that is disposed to be opposed to the recording head via the conveyance belt and receives the ink that has passed through the first openings during execution of the flushing;
an ink discharging flow path connected to the ink receiver; and
a liquid supply mechanism that supplies a liquid capable of dissolving the ink into the ink receiver; wherein
the recording head includes a cleaning liquid supply part that ejects a cleaning liquid to be supplied to and used for cleaning a nozzle surface of the recording head in which the nozzles are open,
the conveyance belt has a second opening for the cleaning liquid ejected from the cleaning liquid supply part to pass through, and
the liquid supply mechanism corresponds to the cleaning liquid supply part that supplies, as the liquid, the cleaning liquid into the ink receiver via the second opening.