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Katsumi Yamada

Keisuke Sasaki

Satoshi Nakata

Nobuhisa Nomoto

Shintaro Miyamoto

Masaharu Nishiura

Makoto Kanno

Kazunori Takabayashi

Akira Morozumi

Atsushi Funada

Masanori Kato

Hisayuki Akahane

Kensuke Tamai

Yoshiyuki Okazawa

Tadashi Miyasaka

Kaoru Sato

Yuji Tanaka

Yoshitaka Nakajima

Takayuki Yazawa

Takeshi Imamura

Hitoshi Igarashi

Takeshi Yokota

Yoshitsugu Suzuki

Koichi Nakagawa

Yoshihiko Oda

Yoshiyasu Kawasaki

Yasushi Tanaka

Seiji Okabe

Eiji Mochizuki

Tomoyuki Nakano

Mitsuo Kimura

Nobuyuki Nakamura

Satoshi Maeda

Yasunori Onishi

Kazuhisa Kawakami

Takaaki Toyooka

Yoshihisa Nakao

Takatoshi Yamazaki

Mitsutoshi Hongo

Daisuke Uchimitsu

Shota Igawa

Kazuo Saito

Shinji Kanemaru

Hiroki Shinagawa

Satoru Orii

Morio Iwata

Katsuhito Suzuki

Masamitsu Shimazu

Akihiro Matsuzaki

Hiroshi Shirotori

Toru Hayashi

Satoshi Kinoshiro

Yoshikazu Nagai

Katsunari Kumagai

Kohei Kozaki

Tomio Shimizu

Sadayuki Tsujino

Tomio Sonehara

Kazuhiro Seto

Yosuke Nakano

Yasuhide Ishiguro

Kazuo Otsuka

Shinichi Kobayashi

Yoichi Makimizu

Minoru Takashima

Hideki Matsuoka

Tatsuya Ito

Yasuhiko Yoshihisa

Masaki Kawano

Matsutaro Naito

Kazuhisa Takeda

Kenichiro Eguchi

Eiko Yanagida

Keita Hanawa

Ryo Fukuno

Katsumi Nakajima

Kan Matsuda

Shigemasa Saito

Yoshiyuki Ozawa

Hisato Noro

Tetsuya Mega

Takatoshi Kobayashi

Haruo Nakamichi

Kenichi Furuya

Tomohiro Yasufuku

Tomoyuki Hamachi

Hidefumi Minemura

Tomoharu Ishida

Nobuo Yamagami

Kanako Ide

Akira Hiura

Tomoko Shirai

Masaaki Kohno

Masahito Tatsumi

Akira Nakahira

Mafumi Kobayashi

Nobutaka Kurosawa

Hakubun Fujisawa

Tadayoshi Ishii

A liquid container is configured to be refilled with a liquid from outside, the liquid container including a containing portion that contains the liquid, an inlet that is in communication with the containing portion and through which the liquid is poured, a lid portion that has an insertion portion to be inserted into the inlet and is configured to turn around a turning axis between a closed state in which the inlet is closed by inserting the insertion portion into the inlet and an open state in which the insertion portion is separated from the inlet, and a cover portion that covers the insertion portion in the open state, in which, when the lid portion is in the open state, the insertion portion does not project further than the cover portion when viewed in an axial direction of the turning axis.

Liquid container and recording device

A recording apparatus includes a first absorbing member (extended absorbing member or the like) that absorbs a liquid discarded from a discharge head to an outer side of an end portion of a medium supported by a support section as a waste liquid. The recording apparatus includes a second absorbing member (waste liquid absorbing member) that absorbs the waste liquid sent from a cap, an accommodating section (waste liquid box) that holds the second absorbing member, and a delivery section that delivers the liquid between the first absorbing member and the second absorbing member. In a state where the accommodating section is inserted into an apparatus main body, the delivery sectionis inclined downward from the first absorbing member toward the second absorbing member, and an inclination of the delivery section when the accommodating section is removed from the apparatus main body varies depending on an inserted state.

Liquid discharge apparatus, waste liquid collecting unit, and waste liquid collecting method

A recording apparatus includes a discard absorbing member (first absorbing member) that absorbs a liquid discarded from a discharge head to an outer side of an end portion of a medium supported by a support section as a waste liquid. Further, the recording apparatus includes: a cap which is an example of a waste liquid receiving section that receives the liquid ejected from the discharge head as a waste liquid; a waste liquid absorbing member (second absorbing member) that absorbs the waste liquid sent from the cap; and a waste liquid box (accommodating section) that holds the waste liquid absorbing member. The discard absorbing member and the waste liquid absorbing memberA are coupled to each other such that the waste liquid can be delivered from the discard absorbing member to the waste liquid absorbing member.

A medium-discharging device includes: a medium-discharging section that discharges a medium; a medium-receiving tray that receives the medium discharged by the medium-discharging section; a light-emitting section that emits light to the medium-receiving tray; and a control section that controls the light-emitting section, in which the medium-receiving tray is configured to switch between a first state in which the medium-receiving tray is stored in an apparatus main body that includes the medium-discharging section and a second state in which the medium-receiving tray protrudes from the apparatus main body, and the control section controls the light-emitting section in accordance with a state or operation of the medium-receiving tray.

Medium-discharging device and recording apparatus

A cassette portion includes a side guide, an end guide, and a paper detection portion. The side guide is movable in X direction and controls a motion of a first end portion of paper. The end guide is provided to the side guide to be movable in Y direction, and restricts a motion of a second end portion of the paper. The paper detection portion detects the first restricting position in the X direction of the side guide and a second restricting position in the Y direction of the end guide in a restricted state of the paper. The end guide includes a detection target portion formed such that detection information to be detected by the paper detection portion varies in the Y direction. The paper detection portion detects the first restricting position and the second restricting position by obtaining detection information from the detection target portion.

Medium loading device, recording apparatus, and medium discrimination

A recording apparatus including a recording head that performs recording, a feed roller that feeds out a set medium, a transport driving roller that transports the medium, which is fed out by the feed roller, towards an opposing position that opposes the recording head, and an auxiliary roller provided between the feed roller and the transport driving roller, the auxiliary roller assisting transportation of the medium. When the apparatus is seen from a side of the apparatus, the auxiliary roller overlaps the feed roller in a height direction of the apparatus.

Recording apparatus

A recording apparatus includes a recording head that performs recording; a feeding roller that feeds out a medium that has been set, a transport roller that transports the medium fed out by the feeding roller toward a facing position facing the recording head; an auxiliary roller that is provided between the feeding roller and the transport roller and that assists in the transport of the medium; a motor that generates a driving force; and a drive train that is configured to transmit the driving force of the motor to the auxiliary roller and the transport roller.

Recording apparatus with motor that drives multiple transport rollers

A recording apparatus includes a carriage having a recording head and an ink tank that stores ink to be supplied to the recording head, which are mounted on the carriage, wherein the ink tank has an inlet port provided in an upper part of the ink tank, and a prism provided in a lower part of the ink tank, the recording apparatus includes a sensor located under the carriage and having a light-emitting portion that emits light toward the prism and a light-receiving portion that receives light reflected by the prism, and, when the carriage is located at an ink replenishment position where the ink in the ink tank is replenished via the inlet port, the sensor is disposed at a position hidden by the carriage in plan view of the carriage as viewed from above the carriage.

A recording device includes a recording unit configured to record on a medium, a transportation unit configured to transport the medium, a driving member, a plurality of gears configured to transmit a driving force of the driving member, and a sound absorber having an opening and a hollow space in communication with the opening. The sound absorber is located between a side end of the medium being transported by the transportation unit and the plurality of gears.

Recording device

A recording device includes a recording unit, a discharge roller unit, a medium receiving tray, a motor serving as a power source of the discharge roller, a power transmission unit that is configured to switch between a power transmission state in which power of the motor is transmitted from the motor to the medium receiving tray, and a power non-transmission state in which the power of the motor is not transmitted from the motor to the medium receiving tray, and a restriction unit that is configured to switch between a restriction state in which the restriction unit restricts displacement of the medium receiving tray when the power transmission unit is in the power non-transmission state, and a non-restriction state in which the restriction unit does not restrict the displacement of the medium receiving tray when the power transmission unit is in the power transmission state.

A developing device includes: a first transport member and a second transport member that are disposed in a first transport path and a second transport path provided at an upper side and a lower side in a gravitational direction and that transport a developer. The developing device also includes an ejecting path that is provided in the first transport path disposed at the upper side in the gravitational direction and that ejects an excess developer. The developing device includes a reverse helical section that is disposed in front of a support that supports the second transport member. The reverse helical section helically extends in a reverse direction relative to a helical section provided for circulating the developer, the developer being transported to the ejecting path by the reverse helical section.

Developing device and image forming apparatus having a reverse helical section

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Katsumi Yamada