Seiko Epson Corporation

Inoac Corporation

Hisashi Koike

Satoshi Shinada

Yukiharu Suda

Takao Kobayashi

Masahide Matsuyama

Hisashi Miyazawa

Yasuhiro Ogura

Takahiro Naka

Michinari Tsukahara

Takeo Seino

Minoru Usui

Mutsuhiko Ota

Yuichi Seki

Chiaki Miyajima

Tomio Yokoyama

Seiji Mochizuki

Yoshinori Miyazawa

Shuichi Yamaguchi

Yuichi Nakamura

Masanori Kamijo

Toshio Ito

Fuminori Doi

Takeo Yamaguchi

Hideo Fujimori

Hitoshi Matsumoto

Yasuto Sakai

Noriaki Okazawa

Masahiro Kanai

Koichi Toba

Yasushi Akatsuka

Yasuko Hirano

Kazunori Ito

Yasuhiko Kamijo

Taku Ishizawa

Koichi Otsuki

Noboru Asauchi

Takayuki Iijima

Takayoshi Katsumura

Satomi Yoshioka

Morio Sato

Takayuki Aizawa

Taeko Nishimura

Tadatoshi Honzawa

Takashi Hara

Seiichi Takada

Masakazu Sato

Kazuo Yamada

Masahiko Fukazawa

Shinichi Yanagisawa

Kiyoshi Kitahara

Tadahiro Mizutani

Hitoshi Igarashi

Masaru Takahashi

Nobutaka Urano

Takashi Suzuki

Kazumichi Shimada

Masanori Yoshida

Akio Ito

Hideki Oikawa

Kazuo Koshino

Minoru Tanaka

Tsukasa Ota

Hiroyuki Nishimura

Takayuki Iljima

Ikuyoshi Ochiai

Shinsuke Yamada

Yoshie Kumagai

Tanaka Minoru

Satoshi Sinada

A web forming apparatus includes a drum portion and a second web forming unit. The drum portion has an accommodating chamber capable of accommodating fragments, and accommodating powder supplied from a first supplying unit. The second web forming unit forms a second web by letting a mixture containing the fragments and the powder falling from the drum portion accumulate. The first supplying unit includes a storing chamber for storing the powder and an outlet portion provided below the storing chamber. The powder goes out of the storing chamber via the outlet portion. The drum portion has meshes formed in a net demarcating the accommodating chamber. The powder is able to pass through the meshes. The outlet portion is provided vertically over the net of the drum portion.

Web forming apparatus and molded body manufacturing apparatus

A speaker diaphragm includes a cone formed of a first material including first fibers derived from a plant and a first resin for binding the first fibers together, and an edge portion which is positioned at an outer peripheral portion of the cone and formed of a second material including a second resin, in which the cone and the edge portion are integrally formed. In addition, at least one of the content and the composition of the first resin and the second resin is different.

Speaker diaphragm including cone formed of material including fibers derived from plant and resin, speaker unit, speaker, and method for manufacturing speaker

An electronic instrument is adapted to communicate with another electronic instrument. The electronic instrument includes an acquisition section, a storage section, an inquiry section and a processing section. The acquisition section is configured to acquire identification information from a managed article used by the electronic instrument, the identification information being read-only information uniquely assigned to the managed article. The storage section is configured to store the identification information acquired by the acquisition section. The inquiry section is configured to inquire another electronic instrument as to whether the identification information acquired by the acquisition section is already stored in another electronic instrument. The processing section is configured to perform processing in response to a result of inquiry by the inquiry section.

Electronic instrument and management method

A management system includes an electronic instrument that uses a managed article, and a management server. The electronic instrument is configured to acquire identification information from the managed article used by the electronic instrument with the identification information being read-only information, and to transmit information including the identification information to the management server. The management server is configured to reference registered database, in which information corresponding to the identification information of a plurality of managed articles is registered in advance, using the identification information transmitted from the electronic instrument to determine whether identification information database is required to be updated by the information transmitted from the electronic instrument, and to record at least a portion of the information transmitted from the electronic instrument in the identification information database as being associated with the identification information when it is determined that the identification information database is required to be updated.

Management system, electronic instrument, and management method

A method of manufacturing a liquid container, the liquid container including a liquid containing chamber in which a liquid can be contained, an air communicating passage allowing the liquid containing chamber to communicate with the air, a liquid supply port for supplying the liquid contained in the liquid container to an outside, a liquid flow passage allowing the liquid container and the liquid supply port to communicate with each other, a valve accommodating chamber disposed in the liquid flow passage, a differential pressure valve which is disposed in the valve accommodating chamber, which is normally urged to a closed state, and which is changed from the closed state to an opened state when a differential pressure of a side of the liquid supply port and a side of the liquid containing chamber is equal to or more than a predetermined value, and a film member forming a part of the valve accommodating chamber, the method includes: pressing a valve body of the differential pressure valve in a direction in which the differential pressure valve is opened; and injecting the liquid from the liquid supply port to the liquid containing chamber via the liquid flow passage while maintaining the opened state of the differential pressure valve.

Method of manufacturing liquid container and liquid container

A method of injecting a liquid into a liquid container detachably mounted on a liquid consuming device, the liquid container including: a liquid containing chamber in which the liquid can be contained; a liquid supply hole connectable to the liquid consuming device; a liquid guide passage for guiding the liquid contained in the liquid containing chamber to the liquid supply hole; an air communicating passage communicating the liquid containing chamber with an air; and a liquid residual quantity sensor provided in the liquid guide passage and for outputting different signals between in a case where the liquid guide passage is filled with the liquid and in a case where the liquid guide passage includes air entered thereinto, wherein the liquid containing chamber including at least three liquid containing chambers, and wherein the liquid containing chambers are mutually connected so as to have a descending connection where a pair of the liquid containing chambers are mutually connected so that a liquid flow in the liquid guide passage is a descending flow from above to below and an ascending connection where a pair of the liquid containing chambers are mutually connected so that the liquid flow in the liquid guide passage is an ascending flow from below to above, the method includes: forming an injection port, which communicates with the liquid containing chamber, in the air communicating passage; injecting a predetermined amount of liquid through the injection port; and sealing the injection port after injecting the liquid.

Liquid injecting method and liquid container

A method of injecting a liquid into a liquid container detachably mounted on a liquid consuming apparatus, the liquid container including a liquid containing portion, a liquid supply portion connectable to a liquid ejecting portion of the liquid consuming apparatus, a liquid guide passage for guiding the liquid stored in the liquid containing portion to the liquid supply portion, an air communicating passage communicating the liquid containing chamber with air, a liquid detection unit provided in the liquid guide passage and for outputting different signals between in a case where the liquid guide passage is filled with the liquid and in a case where the liquid guide passage includes air entered thereinto, and a bubble trapping passage provided in the liquid guide passage between a detection position of the liquid detection unit and the liquid containing portion to trap bubbles in the liquid, the method includes: forming an injection port communicating with the liquid containing portion in the air communicating passage; injecting a predetermined amount of the liquid through the injection port; and sealing the injection port after injecting the liquid.

A method of injecting a liquid into a liquid container detachably mounted on a liquid consuming device, the liquid container comprising: a liquid containing chamber containing the liquid; a liquid supply port connectable to the liquid consuming device; a liquid guide path for guiding the liquid contained in the liquid containing chamber to the liquid supply port; an air communicating path communicating the liquid containing chamber with air and having a communicating passage portion that is narrower than at least a part of other communicating paths in the air communicating path and can store some liquid contained in the liquid containing chamber by a meniscus; and a liquid residual quantity sensor provided in the liquid guide path for outputting different signals in accordance with a residual amount of the liquid in the liquid containing portion, wherein the liquid contained in the liquid containing chamber can be blocked from the air by the liquid stored in the communicating passage portion, the method comprising: forming an injection port on a more upstream side than an upstream end of the communicating passage portion; injecting a predetermined amount of liquid from the injection port; and sealing the injection port after injecting the liquid.

A method of manufacturing a liquid container, the liquid container including a liquid containing chamber in which a liquid can be contained, an air communicating passage allowing the liquid containing chamber to communicate with air, a liquid supply port for supplying the liquid contained in the liquid container to an outside, a liquid flow passage allowing the liquid container and the liquid supply port to communicate with each other, a differential pressure valve which is disposed in the liquid flow passage, which is normally urged to a closed state, and which is changed to an opened state when a differential pressure between a side of the liquid supply port and a side of the liquid containing chamber is equal to or more than a predetermined value, and a blocked portion formed by closing a bypass flow passage allowing a supply port side flow passage that is closer to the liquid supply port than the differential pressure valve to communicate with a containing chamber side flow passage that is closer to the liquid containing chamber than the differential pressure valve, so as to bypass the differential pressure valve, the method includes; opening at least a part of the blocked portion so as to form the bypass flow passage; injecting the liquid into the liquid containing chamber from the liquid supply port via the supply port side flow passage, the bypass flow passage, and the containing chamber side flow passage; and blocking the bypass flow passage after injecting the liquid.

An ink cartridge for an ink jet printer having a housing having at least one wall. The ink cartridge further has at least two ink chambers for containing different ink accommodated in the housing. Ink supply ports are formed in one wall of the housing within each of the ink chambers. Each of the ink supply ports has an inner opening and an outer opening. The distance from the inner opening of a first ink supply port to that of a second ink supply port adjacent to the first ink supply port is different from a second distance from the outer opening of the first ink supply opening to that of the second ink supply port.

Ink cartridge for ink-jet printing apparatus

A method of manufacturing a liquid container, the liquid container including a liquid containing chamber in which a liquid can be contained, an air communicating passage allowing the liquid containing chamber to communicate with air, a liquid supply port for supplying the liquid contained in the liquid container to an outside, a valve mechanism disposed in the liquid supply port, a liquid flow passage allowing the liquid container and the liquid supply port to communicate with each other, and a differential pressure valve which is disposed in the liquid flow passage, which is normally urged to be a closed state, and which is changed from the closed state to an opened state when a differential pressure between a side of the liquid supply port and a side of the liquid containing chamber is equal to or more than a predetermined value, the method includes: removing at least a part of the valve mechanism; inserting a jig from the liquid supply port; forcibly opening the differential pressure valve using the jig against an urging force for urging the differential pressure valve to the closed state; and injecting the liquid from the liquid supply port to the liquid containing chamber through the liquid flow passage while forcibly maintaining the opened state of the differential pressure valve.

Method of manufacturing a liquid container

An ink cartridgeis detachably connected to a head of a record apparatus and has a container main bodyhaving an ink tank chamberopened to the atmosphere in a state in which the head and the cartridge are connected and a first openingthrough which ink can be injected into the ink tank chamber (second ink storage chamber, etc.,). Such an intermediate wallpartitioning the ink tank chamberinto two space partsandplaced side by side in an ink injection direction is disposed in the ink tank chamberand is formed with a through partthrough which ink can be injected.

Ink cartridge and method of ink injection thereinto

An ink cartridgeis detachably connected to a head of a record apparatus and has a container main bodyhaving an ink tank chamberopened to the atmosphere in a state in which the head and the cartridge are connected and a first openingthrough which ink can be injected into the ink tank chamber (second ink storage chamberetc.,). Such an intermediate wallpartitioning the ink tank chamberinto two space partsandplaced side by side in an ink injection direction is disposed in the ink tank chamberand is formed with a through partthrough which ink can be injected.

An ink filling apparatus is constituted by an access unit () for reading an amount of ink consumed in an ink cartridge () which needs to be refilled from a storage unit () provided on the relevant cartridge and a filling controlling unit () for determining an amount of ink on the basis of the data. Ink in an amount corresponding to the amount of ink consumption stored in the storage unit of the ink cartridge () is filled by a filling apparatus ().

Method of filling recording material in recording material container and filling apparatus

A method of refilling an ink bag that is used in an ink jet recorder, the ink bag is initially filled with ink through an opening in the bag, and is sealed after the ink bag is initially filled. The method comprises the steps of removing the ink bag from the ink jet recorder, positioning the ink bag, inserting an ink needle into a separate opening in the ink bag that is different than the first opening through which the ink bag is initially filled with ink, discharging ink from the ink bag through the second opening, and charging the ink bag through the second opening with a specified quantity of ink.

Method of refilling an ink cartridge for use in ink jet recorder

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Hisashi Koike