Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Kengo Noda

Koshiro Yamaguchi

Akira Sago

Teruo Imamaki

Takashi Horiuchi

Yasuhiro Shibata

Tsutomu Kato

Tsuyoshi Nagae

Masato Kato

Yasuhiro Iriyama

Tomohiko Sugino

Tsuyoshi Ito

Masao Mimoto

Satoshi Miyase

Shohei Ichikawa

Yoshimitsu Taniguchi

Gakuro Kanazawa

Yuya Tatematsu

Nao Morimoto

Hirotoshi Maehira

Susumu Murata

Hideaki Yoshimune

Hikaru Tamura

Yuki Tsujimura

Takashi Suzuki

Hiroaki Takahashi

Masatomo Yamaguchi

Yusuke Arai

Yuta Arakawa

Shinji Kobayashi

Asami Yokoe

An image recording apparatus includes a first tray, a second tray overlapping the first tray in the first direction, a first roller configured to feed first sheet media in the first tray in a second direction, a second roller configured to feed second sheet media in the second tray in the second direction, a first separating member extending in a third direction intersecting both the first direction and the second direction, a second separating member extending in the third direction, and a recording unit. The second separating member is longer than the first separating member, and the second roller is positioned at the upstream side of the second tray with respect to the first roller in the second direction in a state where no sheet media are accommodated in the first tray and the second tray.

Image recording apparatus

An image recording apparatus includes: a feed tray; a feed roller configured to feed a sheet medium accommodated in the feed tray; and a recording unit. The feed tray includes: a first accommodating part configured to accommodate a rolled body formed by rolling the sheet medium; a second accommodating part configured to accommodate a plurality of sheet media in a stacked state, each of the sheet media being the sheet medium; a contact surface configured to contact, from below, the sheet medium unrolled from the rolled body accommodated in the first accommodating part; and a support member having a support surface configured to support the sheet media accommodated in the second accommodating part. The feed roller is movable between a contact position at which the feed roller contacts the contact surface and a separation position at which the feed roller is away from the contact surface.

Image recording apparatus and feed tray

A feed mechanism includes: a feed tray accommodating a roll body, a first sheet-shaped medium being rolled in a roll shape as the roll body, the feed tray including: a first accommodation portion accommodating the roll body; a pair of side walls respectively provided on both sides of the first accommodation portion in an axial direction of the roll body that is accommodated in the first accommodation portion; and a side guide disposed inside the pair of side walls.

Feed mechanism, image forming apparatus, and feed tray

An image recording apparatus includes a housing in which a conveyance path is formed, a feed tray insertable into and removable from the housing, configured to accommodate sheet media, and including a first accommodating portion, an image recording portion, a guide member configured to guide one of the sheet media, a stopper movable between a restriction state in which the stopper abuts against a leading end of the sheet medium to prevent the sheet medium from reaching a bank provided and a retraction state in which the stopper is separated from the leading end to allow the sheet medium to reach the guide member, when the feed tray is inserted into the housing, and a flap provided above the sheet media and movable in an up-down direction by pivoting about a given rotation axis.

A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.

Tape cassette

An image forming apparatus includes: a feed tray accommodating a roll body, a first sheet-shaped medium being rolled in a roll shape as the roll body; and a feed roller configured to apply a conveying force to the first sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll body and to feed the first sheet-shaped medium from the feed tray. The feed tray includes: a first accommodation portion accommodating the roll body; a second accommodation portion accommodating a plurality of second sheet-shaped media stacked in a first direction; and a path member located between the first accommodation portion and the feed roller. The path member includes a partition member partitioning the second sheet-shaped medium accommodated in the second accommodation portion and the first sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll body in the first direction.

Image forming apparatus and feed tray

A cassette case includes a bottom case and a top case. A tape is housed in the cassette case. A tape discharge portion discharges, from the cassette case, the tape that has been guided in the cassette case along a predetermined feed path. A first indicator portion indicates a type of the tape. A second indicator portion indicates a type of the tape, which is different from that indicated by the first indicator portion. An indicator member is a member independent from the top case and the bottom case, and is provided with the second indicator portion. An attachment portion is provided on the cassette case. The indicator member is removably attached to the attachment portion.

A feed tray includes a first accommodation part in which a roll body having a configuration where a first sheet-shaped medium is rolled in a roll shape is accommodated, a conveyance guide configured to define a conveyance path for a roll medium which is the first sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll body accommodated in the first accommodation part, and a shutter movable between an intercept position where the shutter is located in the conveyance path and a retreat position where the shutter is further from the conveyance path than the intercept position.

Feed tray and image recording apparatus

An image recording apparatus is provided, including a casing; a tray which is to be installed to the casing by being inserted in a first orientation and which is to be withdrawn from the casing in a second orientation that is opposite to the first orientation; a sheet conveying passage; a platen; a recording part; and an interlock which moves the platen while being interlocked with movement of the tray in the first orientation or movement in the second orientation. The platen is movable to a printing position and a release position. The interlock moves the platen from the printing position to the release position while being interlocked with the withdrawal of the tray from the casing or the insertion of the tray into the casing.

An image forming apparatus includes: a housing; a feed tray insertable into and removable from the housing and accommodating a sheet-shaped medium; a feed roller feeding the sheet-shaped medium; an image forming device; and a movement mechanism. The feed tray includes: a first accommodation portion accommodating a roll body, a first sheet-shaped medium being rolled in a roll shape as the roll body; and a second accommodation portion accommodating a second sheet-shaped medium which is shorter than the first sheet-shaped medium. The movement mechanism moves to a first position where the feed roller contacts the first sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll body accommodated in the first accommodation portion and a second position where the feed roller contacts the second sheet-shaped medium accommodated in the second accommodation portion.

Image forming apparatus

An image recording apparatus includes a feed tray configured to accommodate a sheet-shaped medium, the sheet-shaped medium including at least one of a first sheet-shaped medium or a second sheet-shaped medium, and a recording device configured to record an image on the sheet-shaped medium fed from the feed tray. The feed tray includes a first accommodation portion configured to accommodate a roll, in which the first sheet-shaped medium is rolled in a roll shape, a second accommodation portion configured to accommodate a plurality of the second sheet-shaped media in a stacked state, and a display portion that displays setting information on setting of the sheet-shaped medium.

An image recording apparatus includes a feed tray, a feed mechanism feeding a sheet-shaped medium accommodated in the feed tray, and a recording device recording an image on the sheet-shaped medium fed by the feed mechanism. The feed tray includes a first accommodation portion accommodating a roll, in which the sheet-shaped medium is rolled, a pair of side walls interposing the sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll in a first direction parallel to an axis of the roll, and a side guide disposed inside the pair of side walls and having an inner-side surface contactable with an edge in the first direction of the first sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll. The side guide has a metal portion made of metal, the metal portion forming at least part of the inner-side surface.

Image recording apparatus and feed tray that includes a side guide inside a pair of sidewalls for roll paper

When an image recording apparatus records an specific image over a boundary between a first dot formation range where dots are to be formed in a preceding recording operation of two consecutive recording operations and a second dot formation range where dots are to be formed in a subsequent recording operation of the two consecutive recording operations, the apparatus sets, as a correction portion, an end portion in a scanning direction of a specific region including at least one of a first boundary region adjacent to the second dot formation range and a second boundary region adjacent to the first dot formation range in the specific image, and forms the dot placed at the correction portion by discharging liquid of a discharge amount smaller than the discharge amount set for a dot element corresponding to the dot from nozzles.

A control device for a printing execution unit including a printing head, a head drive unit, and a movement unit, wherein, in a case where a non-character object region is located at an upstream end of a partial region which is configured to be printed by a first partial printing: dots are formed in a first overlap region by both the first partial printing and a second partial printing, the first overlap region including the upstream end of the partial region, wherein, in a case where a character region is located at the upstream end of the partial region, dots are formed in a second overlap region by both the first partial printing and the second partial printing, the second overlap region including the upstream end of the partial region, and wherein a length of the second overlap region is shorter than a length of the first overlap region.

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