Patent ID: 6568788
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An ink jet recording apparatus including:a carriage reciprocating in the apparatus; a recording head mounted on the carriage and discharging ink from a nozzle forming surface; a cleaner disposed in a vicinity of a movement path of the recording head so as to advance and retreat, and having a cleaning member to wipe off the nozzle forming surface; and a driving mechanism for the cleaner including a drive shaft provided with a sun gear rotatably disposed on a fixing base, a gear holding lever pivotally and rotatably supported on the drive shaft between two rotation stop positions and rotatably holding a planet gear engaging with the sun gear, and a cleaner drive lever juxtaposed to the gear holding lever, rotatably and pivotally supported at the drive shaft, and having inner teeth engageable with the planet gear; wherein the cleaner drive lever is rotated by a rotation of the sun gear through engagement of the inner teeth with the planet gear in a rotation stop state of the gear holding lever, so that a driving force is applied to the cleaner.