CN1331677C

CN1331677C - Ink box cleaning machine

Info

Publication number: CN1331677C
Application number: CNB031141986A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 黎翔; 刘广南
Original assignee: Print Rite Unicorn Image Products Co Ltd
Current assignee: Print Rite Unicorn Image Products Co Ltd
Priority date: 2003-04-11
Filing date: 2003-04-11
Publication date: 2007-08-15
Anticipated expiration: 2023-04-11
Also published as: CN1535829A

Abstract

The present invention discloses an ink box cleaning machine which relates to the ink box cleaning machine for an ink box of an ink jet printer in the cleaning working procedure in the renewing technology. The present invention comprises a machine casing and a cleaning room in the machine casing, wherein an ink box fixing base, a suction head, a water filling cleaning device and a control system are arranged in the cleaning room. A base is positioned below the machine casing, and the base and the machine casing can be mutually connected in a rotary form on a horizontal plane. 2 to 4 independent cleaning rooms are arranged in the machine casing. The present invention adopts a rotary type main machine and removes the spatial distance in two existing cleaning working procedures. The proposal that a plurality of cleaning rooms are built in a machine body is adopted, so the site occupying area of the device is correspondingly reduced, and the work environment is improved. By the rotary form on the original place, the working position of an operator is reached. The operator can operate a plurality of cleaning rooms.

Description

Print cartridge washer

Technical field

The print cartridge washer that the special equipment, particularly matting that the present invention relates to use in the cartridge of ink-jet printer renewing technology uses.

Background technology

The structure of the used print cartridge of ink-jet printer is varied, wherein a class print cartridge and printhead are integrated, it comprises a housing that black chamber is arranged, the China ink chamber is by being located at printhead on the housing to printer ink-providing, also has the refilling fabrication hole on the housing, China ink chamber negative-pressure balancing pore etc., this class print cartridge is compared with the print cartridge that printhead is arranged on the printer, have such as the maintenance cost that can reduce printer, prolong many advantages such as service life of printer, one of shortcoming is integrated behind the printhead, and the cost of print cartridge is higher relatively, for addressing this problem, people adopt this class print cartridge are reclaimed, the way of reforming and regenerating reduces its use cost.

The print cartridge that reclaims cleans earlier usually, on a liquid cleaning machine from the refilling fabrication hole to the continuous water filling in black chamber (or water filling repeatedly, draw water), black chamber is cleaned up, deliver to another negative pressure cleaning machine afterwards again, printhead is aspirated repeatedly, with residual China ink in all spray orifices of printhead and cleaning fluid sucking-off, after this deliver to down the road and irritate black operation.

The cleaning equipment that uses in the above-mentioned matting makes that the production line floor space is bigger, has used two equipment of ink wash chamber and printhead; The operating personnel that use are more, and every equipment should be equipped with operating personnel, and production efficiency is not high.

Main purpose of the present invention provides the less print cartridge washer of a kind of floor space, improves working environment;

Another object of the present invention provides the higher relatively print cartridge washer of a kind of automaticity, is suitably increasing under the prerequisite of labor intensity of operating staff, reduces the quantity of operating personnel in the existing matting.

Summary of the invention

For achieving the above object, the cleaning machine that the present invention provides has a housing, and sealable purge chamber is arranged in the housing, and print cartridge holder, suction nozzle, water filling cleaning device and control system are housed in the purge chamber, can finish the cleaning of black chamber and printhead in the purge chamber.Design feature of the present invention is, also has a base that is positioned at the housing below, and base can be connected at horizontal plane mutually rotationally with housing, like this, when base placed on the workbench, operating personnel can rotate cleaning machine on demand, made it 360 degree rotation arbitrarily in horizontal plane.Another characteristics of the present invention are, separately purge chamber independently of 2-4 is arranged in the housing, fixedly station, the injector that cleans black chamber of fixing two print cartridges, the negative pressure suction nozzle that cleans printhead are arranged in each purge chamber, like this, can in a purge chamber, finish two procedures of cleaning, in addition, a plurality of purge chambers uniform around horizontal plane are independent separately, separately branch's pipe blow-through, gas circuit, control system etc. are promptly arranged, one people promptly is rotated operation successively, also can many people be operated by different purge chambers simultaneously.

By above scheme as seen, the present invention has adopted the main frame of rotary type, has saved the space length in the existing two road mattings, has adopted a plurality of purge chambers to build the interior organization plan of a housing in simultaneously, the area that this has all reduced the hold facility place has relatively improved working environment.Utilize cleaning process to need the characteristics at a period of time interval (as 3 minutes), the present invention is built in a plurality of purge chambers in the housing, and arrive a certain operator's station by the mode that rotate in the original place, making this operator one people utilize this time that other purge chambers are operated becomes possibility.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the stereo appearance figure of one embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 2 is the upward view of this embodiment;

Fig. 3 is the front view of this embodiment;

Fig. 4 is the A-A cutaway view of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is the B-B cutaway view of Fig. 3.

This embodiment and the accompanying drawing thereof that provide below in conjunction with the present invention are described further.

Embodiment

Referring to Fig. 1, this example is an embodiment that two purge chamber's cleaning machines are arranged, therefore, the horizontal cross-section of host shell 1 is a rectangle, a technology hand hole 2, cable aperture 3, tracheal orifice 4, water pipe hole 5 are arranged at the top, there is a fan double door 12 each purge chamber, double door is provided with transparent glass window, be used to observe the cleaning situation, the fixedly station that two print cartridges are arranged in the purge chamber, two

stations Pressure gauge

6,7 and action button 8,9 separately is housed on the panel, also has the power supply indicator 10 of this purge chamber.Base 11 is shelved on the workbench, with hand propelled housing 1 main frame is horizontally rotated on base 11.

Referring to Fig. 2, there is central siphon lid 13 at the base middle part, on the central siphon lid 13 outlet pipe 15 is housed, and it makes the cleaning fluid in each purge chamber derive cleaning machine.Four screws 14 are used for central siphon lid 13 central siphons that are fixed under the housing 1.

Referring to Fig. 3, this is a front view, and the door of another purge chamber, Pressure gauge, button etc. are positioned on the rearview, rearview and Fig. 3 symmetry, as previously mentioned, the fixed bit of two print cartridges is arranged in each purge chamber, every fan windowpane that can see through bivalve door is seen accordingly.The print cartridge of a model can respectively clean in two purge chambers of this example, and the print cartridge of each model is finished cleaning on two stations of a purge chamber.Each purge chamber is followed successively by first station and second station from left to right, and every print cartridge cleans printhead more earlier in the first station supernatant ink wash chamber on second station.

Referring to Fig. 4, have in the housing 1 about first purge chamber 16,17 distributions of second purge chamber, central space is installed the water, electricity and gas pipeline.First station in first purge chamber 16, print cartridge holder 22 and spring compression means 24 are being fixed print cartridge 23 to be washed, pump nozzle 21 by the infusing ink in ink box hole inject repeatedly, the sucking-off cleaning fluid, black chamber is cleaned, print cartridge 23 cleans at this station and reaches next station after finishing.Second station in second purge chamber, another print cartridge 19 that cleaned black chamber through this purge chamber's first station is fixed on the print cartridge holder 20, the cleaning of spraying of nozzle 18 align printhead, thereby, finish the whole cleaning of this print cartridge 19.

Referring to Fig. 5, in first purge chamber 16, the print cartridge 26 that cleaned black chamber through this purge chamber's first station is fixed on 25 of print cartridge holder 27 and spring compression means, and suction nozzle 28 is finished cleaning after with the raffinate sucking-off in the printhead.In second purge chamber 17, there is a cylinder 34 to be fixed on indoor, cylinder rod 33 promotes portable plate 32, fixing syringe needle 31 on the portable plate 32, syringe needle 31 can enter the black chamber of print cartridge 30 from pouring ink hole, print cartridge 30 is fixed on the first station print cartridge holder 29, can clean black chamber by syringe needle 31 continuous water fillings, reaches next station after finishing.

The aforesaid operations process can be rotated main frame repeatedly by operating personnel, and first and second purge chambers are entered cleaning operation.

Main design of the present invention is the multicell cleaning machine of a mobile purge chamber of design, the cleaning machine that particularly has rotation formula, be not limited in the foregoing description that provides, according to the present invention numerous embodiments can be arranged, the main frame of three purge chambers, four purge chambers for example, the design that can provide according to the present invention easily draws equally.

Claims

1, print cartridge washer comprises the purge chamber in housing, the housing, and print cartridge holder, suction nozzle, water filling cleaning device and control system are housed in the purge chamber;

It is characterized in that:

Also have a base that is positioned at lower housing portion, base can be connected at horizontal plane mutually rotationally with housing;

Separately purge chamber independently of 2-4 is arranged in the housing;

Two of two print cartridges fixedly stations are arranged in each purge chamber.

2, print cartridge washer according to claim 1 is characterized in that:

Described separately independently chamber, purge chamber door be distributed on around the housing.