Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Kenji Samoto

Yuji Koga

Wataru Sugiyama

Tsuyoshi Ito

Hirotaka Aoki

Tetsuo Asada

Shota Iijima

Satoru Nakakita

Noriyuki Kawamata

Takashi Omura

Keisuke Wakakusa

Toshio Sugiura

Shuichi Tamaki

Yusuke Arai

Kenta Horade

Masatoshi Izuchi

Masatomo Yamaguchi

Mitsuhiro Nozaki

Masatoshi Yamada

Shunji Murai

Yukio Shiohara

Yuta Uchino

Masaru Takeuchi

Hiroaki Yazawa

Kiyoshi Ueda

Mitsugi Tanaka

Katsuro Miura

Yasuhira Ota

Gakuro Kanazawa

Yoshiyuki Washino

Jun Morikawa

Shohei Ichikawa

Takahiro Kuroki

Peng Zou

There is provided a printing apparatus including a casing; a conveyor; a head; a tank; a passing port; and a cutter. The cutter includes a blade, and a moving mechanism configured to move the blade. In an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction and a cutting direction, at least a part of the passing port is located at a same position as the tank. In the orthogonal direction, at least a part of the cutter is located at a same position as the tank. The tank is positioned to be away from the passing port to one side in the cutting direction. A part of the cutter is positioned to be away from the passing port to the other side in the cutting direction.

Printing apparatus

An image recording device having a recording unit to record an image on a sheet is provided. The image recording unit includes a feed guide defining a first conveying path; an arm disposed between the recording unit and the tray, the arm having a feed roller rotatably disposed at a free end and configured to feed the sheet in the tray to the first conveying path. The arm pivots between a first arm position, and a second arm position. The return guide pivots between a first return guide position, and a second return guide position. A space occupied by the return guide in the first return guide position overlaps a space occupied by the arm in the second arm position. The return guide is in the second return guide position when the arm is in the second arm position which is retracted from an insertion space occupied by the tray.

Image recording device

An image recording device is provided, having a recording unit configured to record an image on a sheet, and a tray disposed below the recording unit. The tray includes a sheet holding surface configured to hold the sheet. Additionally, the image recording device includes a sheet feeder disposed between the recording unit and the tray. The sheet feeder includes a roller for feeding the sheet from the tray. The roller is configured to move between a first roller position in which the roller contacts the sheet holding surface of the tray and a second roller position in which the roller is separated from the sheet holding surface. A return guide, disposed between the recording unit and the sheet feeder, defines a second conveying path to guide the sheet having an image recorded on one side thereof back to the feed guide. The return guide has a first opening configured to accommodate the roller of the sheet feeder when the roller is in the second roller position.

Image recording device having a compact form factor

There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus which includes a recording portion, and a contact portion configured to come into contact with an upper surface of the sheet. The contact portion has a storage portion provided on a side of the recording portion and configured to store an ink, and a protruding portion provided between both ends in a width direction intersecting the transporting direction of the storage portion, and which is protruded toward the recording section, and an upper end of the protruding portion is the highest in the contact portion.

Ink-jet recording apparatus

An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a sheet includes a recording section which records the image on the sheet in a transport passage for transporting the sheet in a transport direction and multiple plates which are spaced apart from each other in a widthwise direction. These multiple plates include a first type of plate and a second type of plate. Plates of a first type of plate are configured to overlap a sheet when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction and the widthwise direction, while plates of the second type of plate do not.

Image recording apparatus

An image forming apparatus may include a mechanism for forming a corrugated shape in a sheet to be conveyed. The mechanism may include various components include one or more pressing portions, one or more ribs, one or more discharge rollers, a switching mechanism and the like. In one arrangement, ribs and pressing portions configured to create the corrugated shape may be disposed at various locations upstream or downstream of the platen, recording portion and/or nozzles thereof. In one example, pressing portions may be disposed both upstream and downstream of the nozzles of the recording portion to maintain a corrugated shape in the conveyed sheet. Various other configurations may be used.

Inkjet recording apparatus

A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a casing provided with a first conveying path and a second conveying path; a first feeding tray provided in the casing and having a first supporting surface that supports a sheet; a supporting member that supports the first feeding tray from below in the casing; a first feeding section provided above the first supporting surface; a first guide member having a first guide surface to guide the sheet fed from the first feeding tray; a second feeding tray provided below the supporting member in the casing and having a second supporting surface that supports a different sheet; a second feeding section provided above the second supporting surface; a second guide member having a second guide surface to guide the different sheet fed from the second feeding tray; and a frame made of metal and being installed on a lower surface of the supporting member.

Sheet conveying apparatus and image recording apparatus

A feeding apparatus includes: a loading unit configured to load a plurality of sheet-like media in a stacked state; a feeding roller configured to feed the media by rotating while abutting against the media loaded on the loading unit; an arm configured to rotatably support the feeding roller and configured to be swingable about a support shaft; at least one actuator supported by the arm to be swingable about a fulcrum provided between the support shaft and a leading end of the arm, the arm being on the same side as the feeding roller with respect to the support shaft and being farthest away from the support shaft; and at least one sensor configured to output a signal which differentiates a first posture of the at least one actuator with respect to the arm, from a second posture different from the first posture.

Feeding apparatus

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Nagoya, Japan

Kenji Samoto