Patent 7384121 was granted and assigned to Sony on June, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A cleaner of a liquid discharge head having a nozzle surface provided with a liquid discharge nozzle for discharging a predetermined liquid cleans the nozzle surface by moving relative to the liquid discharge head. It includes a cleaning roller for wiping the nozzle surface, the surface of the cleaning roller which comes into contact with the nozzle surface being formed of a fibrous absorbing member.