Patent ID: 8506043
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An inkjet recording apparatus, comprising: a plurality of recording heads each including a nozzle face in which inkjet nozzles are formed and recording an image on a recording medium by ink ejected from the inkjet nozzles; and a plurality of wiper members, each arranged corresponding to each recording head, and performing cleaning of the nozzle face of each recording head by moving relative to each recording head, wherein the wiper members move in a wiping direction along nozzle faces after respective front ends of the wiper members abut against the recording heads, and timing at which at least one of the wiper members abuts against one recording head is different from another timing at which another wiper member differing from the one wiper member abutting against the one recording head abuts against another recording head, and wherein the plurality of recording heads are formed to extend in a width direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of the recording medium and are arranged sequentially in the conveying direction, and the plurality of wiper members move in the conveying direction.