Patent ID: 8727490
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A fluid discharging apparatus comprising: a nozzle for discharging fluid onto a medium; and a rotating body that has a holding region for holding the medium and a non-holding region on its peripheral surface and that rotates while facing a peripheral surface toward the nozzle, wherein the rotating body includes: the receiving member is a belt that rotates in response to the driving force in a state where the belt is looped between two rollers inside the rotating drum while receiving fluid discharged from the nozzle for flushing and passing through the opening on the peripheral surface, and the removing member includes a scraping member that scrapes the fluid received by the belt in such a manner that the scraping member contacts an outer peripheral surface of the rotating belt, wherein the fluid is an ultraviolet curable ink, the fluid discharging apparatus further comprises an irradiation unit that faces the peripheral surface of the rotating drum at a position downstream of the nozzle in a direction in which the rotating drum rotates and that is used for irradiating ultraviolet ray to the ultraviolet curable ink that has adhered to the medium, the belt moves from a position facing the nozzle through the opening to a position facing the irradiation unit through the opening in accordance with rotation of the rotating drum, the irradiation unit irradiates ultraviolet ray to ultraviolet curable ink, received by the belt when the belt is located at the position facing the nozzle, at the time when the belt is moved and located at a position facing the irradiation unit, and the scraping member scrapes the ultraviolet curable ink to which the ultraviolet ray is irradiated.