Patent ID: 7494205

Claim:
A maintenance/recovery device for a liquid discharge device, comprising: a cap member covering a surface of a nozzle of a liquid discharging head, the liquid discharging head discharging a droplet of a recording liquid from the nozzle; a resilient contact member provided in the cap member to come in contact with the surface of the nozzle; a recess-forming member provided in the cap member to form a recess for receiving the recording liquid attracted from the nozzle, wherein the contact member and the recess-forming member are integrally formed by molding, the recess-forming member is made of a water-repellant resin material containing a water repellent agent, and the recess-forming member comprises a plurality of slopes providing respective inclined surfaces extending to an outlet at a bottom of the recess from an entire circumference of an opening part of the cap member, each of the inclined surfaces forming an inclination angle equal to or larger than 20 degrees with respect to a horizontal plane.