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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently and quickly perform the elimination of ink received by an ink receiving member along with recovery processing. SOLUTION: A vertically split and elongated flow path-forming member 216a with a hollow cylindrical shape is arranged on the bottom face of the ink receiving member 211 in a turned-down form. A plurality of openings as an ink suction port 216b made to communicate with a flow path are provided to the flow path-forming member 216a along the longitudinal direction. The ink suction ports 216b are formed into a notched shape provided to the edge part in the longitudinal direction of the flow path-forming member 216a abutting onto the bottom face of the ink receiving member 211. By this, suction efficiency of the ink from the ink receiving member 211 can be enhanced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid discharger constituted to discharge a liquid appropriately and inhibiting liquid from fixing. SOLUTION: The liquid discharger 100 includes: a movable discharge electrode 117; a counter electrode 120 located opposite to the discharge electrode 117; a driving device 122 of the discharge electrode 117 constituted to move the discharge electrode 117 between the standby position and the flight position; and a power supply for applying a predetermined voltage between the discharge electrode 117 and the counter electrode 120. When the discharge electrode 117 is in the standby position, the tip of the discharge electrode is located in the interior of liquid IN in the liquid chamber 114. When the discharge electrode 117 is in the flight position, the tip of the discharge electrode 117 is located in the exterior of liquid IN. The driving device 122 moves the discharge electrode 117 from the standby position to the flight position whenever the liquid is discharged. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing method for quickly solidifying resin with fixer and preventing an image degradation. SOLUTION: Only an inner layer part I of a liquid ultraviolet-curing resin D, which is in contact with a toner image T, is solidified (or, the viscosity of only the inner layer part I is increased) and an outer layer part O is still in a liquid state by irradiating the toner image T on a recording medium P from a first ultraviolet ray irradiation source 54 with the ultraviolet rays (within the range of frequency from 220 to 260 nm). Then, the ultraviolet-curing resin D whose inner layer part I is solidified (or the viscosity is increased) is irradiated with the ultraviolet rays (within the range of frequency from 365 to 400 nm) from the second ultraviolet ray irradiation source 56. Thus, only the outer layer part O on the outside of the inner layer part I is solidified, and the fixing of the toner image T is completed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inkjet recording apparatus which can remove an ink droplet adhering onto an ink ejection port-formed surface of a recording head for ejecting ink to a recording medium, and the inside of which can be prevented from being polluted with the adhering ink droplet. SOLUTION: The ink droplet, which is to spread over the ink ejection port-formed surface, is made to adhere to an ink removing member by utilizing capillarity. The ink droplet, which may be transferred onto the ink ejection port-formed surface and discharged out of a cap, is surely guided into the cap by making a flat plate serve as a wall This enables the removal of the ink droplets remaining on the ink ejection port-formed surface. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inkjet image forming apparatus which is equipped with a degasifier that reduces dissolved oxygen from used ink by a simple constitution, and which is stable in printing quality. SOLUTION: The inkjet recorder comprises an ink tank 1, a sub tank 4 which temporarily stores the ink before supplying to a printing head 6, the degasifier 3 which degasifies the ink in an ink passage that links the ink tank and the sub tank, a detecting part which detects a concentration of the dissolved oxygen of the ink, and a control part which operates the degasifier by the detected value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image formation device which makes a throughput improved while removing the unevenness of density. SOLUTION: A distance (drying distance) L1 from the first pre-treatment liquid applicator group 30A to the first printing head group 20A is equal to the distance L2 from the second pre-treatment liquid applicator group 30B to the second printing head group 20B. Accordingly, the time until the sections P1, P2 and P3 (the first section) of a recording medium P to which the pre-treatment liquid is applied by the first pre-treatment liquid applicator 30A reach the first printing head group 20A is equal to the time until the sections P4, P5 and P6 (the second section) of the recording medium P to which the pre-treatment liquid is applied by the second pre-treatment applicator group 30B reach the second printing head group 20B. Namely, the time until printing after applying the pre-treatment liquid becomes constant. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a capping mechanism which can cut bridging of ink in a short time. SOLUTION: After a recovery action ends, a printing head 22K moves up and a head face surface 22Ks starts moving away from an ink removing member 72. In this case, a retainer 70 and the ink removing member 72 are urged towards the head face surface 22Ks by a pair of urging springs 76, and therefore the retainer 70 and the ink removing member 72 follow the upward movement of the printing head 22K by only a small distance. During the following, first, one end side retainer stopper 52a of a cap holder 52 secures a protrusion 70a of the retainer 70. In consequence, one longitudinal end (part of the protrusion 70a side) of the ink removing member 72 becomes unable to follow the upward movement of the printing head 22K. The one longitudinal end starts moving away from the printing head 22K more than the other longitudinal end (part of a protrusion 70b side). COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exposure device which suppresses the occurrence of uneven exposure and can record a high-quality image, and a recording device using the same.SOLUTION: From among plural light emitting elements corresponding to a unit exposure portion, a light emitting element identified as a light emitting target is selected on a random basis.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive conveyance roller with sufficient conveyance durability. SOLUTION: In a roller member structuring the conveyance roller, the ratio of an area S1 where a protruding part 10 is arranged to an area S2 where a recessed part 11 is arranged is set to be within an appropriate range and a rigidity in at least a surface part of the roller member is set to be in an appropriate range. Even when a general material except for polyurethane, for example, a rubber material including olefinic rubber such as EPDM, natural rubber, Norsorex, urethane rubber or urethane foam is used, excellent conveyance function can be obtained. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain a variation in the discharge performance (ink discharge quantity and discharge speed) of a print head occurring due to an increase in viscosity of ink supplied to the print head in a structure to recover and reuse ink discharged with the recovery of the print head in an inkjet printer. SOLUTION: The inkjet printer is provided with a means to sense the viscosity of ink (electrodes 331 and 333) is provided and urges the injection of a viscosity regulator by announcing that viscosity has increased when detecting an increase in viscosity from the preset viscosity of the ink. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI