Patent ID: 11872825
Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A head cooling device comprising:
a refrigerant supplying portion supplying a refrigerant to each of a plurality of recording heads through a corresponding supplying path, the plurality of recording heads each ejecting ink;
a switching portion switching a corresponding supplying path of at least one of the plurality of recording heads; and
a switch processing portion controlling the switching portion to switch the supplying path so as to reduce temperature difference among the plurality of recording heads,
wherein the refrigerant supplying portion collects the refrigerant from each of the plurality of recording heads through a corresponding collecting path,
wherein the switching portion is able to switch a corresponding supplying path and another switching portion is able to switch a corresponding collecting path of each of the recording heads, and
wherein the switch processing portion controls the another switching portion of a recording head to switch the collecting path to be shorter when a corresponding supplying path is switched to be longer.