Invention Grant
US08348364B2 Fluid supply device, printing device, and method of cleaning a printing device
有权
流体供应装置,打印装置和清洁打印装置的方法
- Patent Title: Fluid supply device, printing device, and method of cleaning a printing device
- Patent Title (中): 流体供应装置,打印装置和清洁打印装置的方法
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Application No.: US12611404Application Date: 2009-11-03
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Publication No.: US08348364B2Publication Date: 2013-01-08
- Inventor: Susumu Taga
- Applicant: Susumu Taga
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Priority: JP2008-283147 20081104
- Main IPC: B41J2/195
- IPC: B41J2/195

Abstract:
A fluid supply device, a printing device, and a method of cleaning a printing device are disclosed. A fluid supply device includes a main tank, a fluid chamber, a fluid-discharging head, a movable carriage, an expansion mechanism that expands the fluid chamber to draw fluid from the main tank, a suction mechanism, a remaining fluid detection unit, a comparison unit that compares the remaining fluid volume in the main tank with a specified value, and a setting unit that sets a cleaning mode. The expansion mechanism is actuated via a movement of the movable carriage. The setting unit sets a first cleaning mode in which a first amount of fluid is vacuumed from the nozzle or a second cleaning mode in which a second amount of fluid is vacuumed from the nozzle that is less than the first amount. The cleaning mode is selected in response to the amount of fluid remaining in the main tank.
Public/Granted literature
- US08303061B2 Fluid supply device, printing device, and method of cleaning a printing device Public/Granted day:2012-11-06
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