Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Disco Corporation

Hiroyuki Hiraga

Yoshitaka Watanabe

Yoshiyuki Mizoguchi

Shigeru Fukuyama

Hisashi Arakida

A cutting apparatus includes a cutting unit that cuts a workpiece included in a frame unit, an ultraviolet ray irradiation unit that irradiates the frame unit with ultraviolet rays, and a control unit. The control unit includes a processing mode registration section in which commands to be output to components. The processing mode registration section registers therein a command in a cutting apparatus mode that causes the cutting unit to cut the workpiece and a command in an ultraviolet ray irradiation apparatus mode that causes the ultraviolet ray irradiation unit to irradiate the frame unit with ultraviolet rays.

Cutting apparatus

An ink jet recording apparatus having a conveying unit for conveying a recording medium to be recorded on, a body unit including an ink containing unit mounting section for mounting an ink containing unit for containing ink to be supplied to a recording head and a cassette mounting section for mounting a cassette for supplying the recording medium. Also provided are a recording unit including a recording head mounting section for mounting the recording head, a carriage unit for moving the recording unit in a predetermined direction, a recovery unit for restoring an ink discharge function, an electrical power source unit for actuating the ink jet recording apparatus, and an electrical circuit unit for controlling the conveying unit, the recording unit, the carriage unit and the recovery unit. The recording head mounting section and electrical circuit unit are provided within the body unit and the ink containing unit mounting section is provided at a position lower than the recording head mounting section and below the electrical circuit unit.

Ink jet apparatus including ink containing unit provided lower than

A recording apparatus comprises a sheet feed roller, a sheet guide member, movably arranged on an outer surface of the feed roller, for guiding a sheet to be printed around the outer surface of the feed roller and drive means for reciprocating the sheet guide means between a first portion for guiding the sheet to a print position and a second position for guiding the sheet during a printing operation.

Recording apparatus having a movable sheet guide member

An ink jet printer has a recovery system for sucking ink from nozzle orifices together with air bubbles stagnant in orifices so as to recover the normal state in the orifices. The recovery system has a vacuum generating device, a capping device and a valve mechanism for controlling the vacuum generated in the vacuum generating device to the capping device. The recovery system further has a temperature detector for detecting the temperature of the ink. The operation timing of the valve mechanism is controlled in accordance with the temperature of the ink detected by the temperature detecting means, so that the amount of ink sucked by the recovery system is regulated in accordance with the temperature of the ink.

Ink jet printer

A recording apparatus for recording on a sheet with a recording device includes a sheet conveying device, a bipositional sheet guiding member and independently operable driving mechanisms for the sheet conveying device and the bipositional sheet guiding member, so that a sheet is properly fed to a recording position when the sheet guiding member is in one position, and the sheet is properly guided during recording when the guiding member is in another position.

Recording apparatus with bipositional sheet guiding member

A low cost, compact ink jet recording apparatus effectively uses a single drive source for controlling paper feed and discharge operations. The apparatus comprises a feed mechanism for feeding a sheet to be printed, discharge rollers for discharging the printed sheet, a moving mechanism for engaging and disengaging the discharge rollers, and a single drive source for operating the feed mechanism, the discharge rollers and the moving mechanism. The apparatus increases sheet feeding reliability by disengaging the discharge rollers during printing. Because the sheet feed mechanism, moving mechanism and discharge rollers are operated by a single drive source, a simpler structure is possible.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Hiraga