CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This patent application is based on and claims priority pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 119(a) to Japanese Patent Application No. 2019-113309, filed on Jun. 19, 2019, in the Japan Patent Office, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein.

BACKGROUND

Technical Field

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a suction device, a printer, and a conveyance device.

Related Art

A printer attracts a printing object on a bed (also referred to as a stage or table, for example) and the like and prints an image on the object while moving and scanning a printing unit such as a liquid discharge head in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction.

A printer detects an air pressure inside the bed with a sensor and controls an operation of a suction pump according to a detection result of the sensor. The bed vacuums a printing object to fix the printing object on the bed.

SUMMARY

In an aspect of this disclosure, a suction device includes a suction hole member including a plurality of suction holes, a suction pump connected to each of the plurality of suction holes, the suction pump configured to suction an air through the plurality of suction holes of the suction hole member to suction a suction target to the suction hole member, and a suction state detector configured to detect a suction state of at least one of the plurality of suction holes corresponding to an end of the suction target suctioned to the suction hole member.

