Patent ID: 8439478
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A wiping apparatus comprising: a guide that has a convexly curved surface which has an apex, an injection aperture plate and a suction aperture plate provided near the guide member spaced from each other and configured to have an opening above the apex of the curved surface to expose a top line of the convexly curved surface to the outside through the opening, and parallel portions extending substantially parallel to a nozzle plate are provided near the opening of the surfaces of the injection aperture plate and the suction aperture plate; a gas injection aperture provided between the convexly curved surface of the guide member and the injection aperture plate that injects gas onto the convexly curved surface; and a gas suction aperture provided between the convexly curved surface of the guide section and the suction aperture plate, wherein a foreign substance adhering to the nozzle plate of an ink-jet head positioned above the guide is blown away by the gas guided along the curved surface of the guide.