Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Printing device, and printing device maintenance method
- Patent Title (中): 打印设备和打印设备维护方法
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Application No.: US14045142Application Date: 2013-10-03
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Publication No.: US09126412B2Publication Date: 2015-09-08
- Inventor: Nobuaki Kamiyama
- Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Global IP Counselors, LLP
- Priority: JP2012-225277 20121010
- Main IPC: B41J2/175
- IPC: B41J2/175 ; B41J2/165

Abstract:
A printing device includes a first ink reservoir unit configured and arranged to store a first ink having sedimentary properties, a head provided with nozzles, a plurality of first ink supply paths configured and arranged to supply the first ink to the head from the first ink reservoir unit, a stirring unit configured and arranged to stir the first ink existing inside an upstream region in a supply direction of the first ink supply paths, and a control unit configured to execute again an again stirring process after a prescribed time has elapsed from a previous stirring process of the first ink by the stirring unit, and, after execution of that the again stirring process, to eject from the nozzles the first ink that is unstirred existing inside the region further downstream in the supply direction than the upstream region of the first ink supply paths, and inside the head.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140098146A1 PRINTING DEVICE, AND PRINTING DEVICE MAINTENANCE METHOD Public/Granted day:2014-04-10
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