US 11,807,007 B2
Capping device and liquid ejecting apparatus
Hiromichi Takanashi, Shiojiri (JP); Akira Yamagishi, Shiojiri (JP); and Akihiro Toya, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/394,956.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-134457 (JP), filed on Aug. 7, 2020; application No. 2020-134458 (JP), filed on Aug. 7, 2020; and application No. 2020-189453 (JP), filed on Nov. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0040979 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/165 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/16505 (2013.01) [B41J 2/16585 (2013.01); B41J 2/165 (2013.01); B41J 2/16523 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A capping device configured to form a space surrounding an opening of a nozzle by coming into contact with a liquid ejecting head having the nozzle for ejecting a liquid, the capping device comprising:
a cap that includes:
a recess that forms the space;
a humidifying chamber that has an inlet through which a humidifying fluid for humidifying the space flows in and an outlet through which the humidifying fluid flows out; and
a partition wall, having gas permeability, that restricts passage of the liquid from the recess to the humidifying chamber, wherein
the recess has a hole for discharge of the liquid discharged from the liquid ejecting head.