18930412. MAINTENANCE METHOD FOR DISCHARGE UNIT (SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION)
MAINTENANCE METHOD FOR DISCHARGE UNIT
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Inventor(s)
Tatsuya Teramoto of SHIOJIRI-SHI JP
Taki Hashimoto of SHIOJIRI-SHI JP
MAINTENANCE METHOD FOR DISCHARGE UNIT
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18930412 titled 'MAINTENANCE METHOD FOR DISCHARGE UNIT
Original Abstract Submitted
Provided is a maintenance method for a discharge unit which has a nozzle hole and plasticizes a material containing a thermoplastic resin to generate a plasticized material. This maintenance method includes a heating step of heating a material or a plasticized material present in a flow path which communicates with a nozzle hole and through which the material or the plasticized material passes at a temperature equal to or higher than the thermal decomposition temperature of the material or the plasticized material, and a releasing step of releasing the material or the plasticized material thermally decomposed in the heating step from the flow path.