Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Masataka Kamiya

Akinori Igarashi

Yutaka Kakigahara

Satoshi Murata

Masamitsu Takahashi

Yoshinori Osakabe

Masahiro Hayashi

Taichi Shirono

Masako Kawagoe

Seiji Shimizu

Kengo Takeda

Naoya Kamimura

Takashi Shimizu

Yasuo Fukamachi

Hideshi Nishiyama

Keita Shimizu

Suguru Tomoguchi

Tomonori Watanabe

Noritsugu Ito

Masaaki Furukawa

Kazutoshi Nakamura

Shinya Kusuda

Saya Minoshima

Kazuma Hinoue

Keita Hironaka

Tetsuya Morita

Mariko Mogi

Shunji Yoshimoto

Kouichi Sugimoto

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Koya Morimoto

There is provided a tank including a liquid storage chamber and an outlet. The liquid storage chamber includes a base portion and a protruding portion, the base portion includes a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall which faces the first lateral wall in a left-right direction, the protruding portion protrudes from the second lateral wall in a direction away from the first lateral wall in the left-right direction, and the left-right direction is defined based on a usable posture in which the tank is disposed such that a lower surface of the liquid storage chamber is located below an upper surface of the liquid storage chamber. A distance between the outlet and the second lateral wall in the left-right direction is smaller than a distance between the outlet and the first lateral wall in the left-right direction.

Liquid discharge apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes: a frame; a cover movable between a closed position and an open position; a fixing unit including a heating member and a pressure roller configured to form a nipping region therebetween; an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a nipping pressure between the heating member and the pressure roller in conjunction with movement of the cover; and a link mechanism connected to both the adjustment mechanism and the cover. The adjustment mechanism includes an arm pressing the heating member such that the heating member and the pressure roller form the nipping region. The link mechanism includes: a first link connected to the cover; a second link connected to the first link and pivotally movable about an axis extending in a width direction; and a third link connected to both the second link and the adjustment mechanism. The third link is movable in a front-rear direction.

Image forming apparatus including cover, adjustment mechanism, and link mechanism connected to both cover and adjustment mechanism

An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a developing device configured to supply toner onto the photosensitive drum, a transfer device configured to transfer the toner supplied onto the photosensitive drum onto a sheet, a spraying device configured to spray a fixing liquid toward the sheet onto which the toner has been transferred, the spraying device including a housing configured to accommodate the fixing liquid and nozzles configured to spray the fixing liquid inside the housing, and a collecting device configured to collect the fixing liquid sprayed from the nozzles and did not adhere to the sheet. The collecting device includes a collection tray configured to accommodate the fixing liquid, a collection pipe connected to the collection tray and configured to allow the fixing liquid in the collection tray to pass therethrough, and a collection pump configured to send the fixing liquid in the collection pipe toward the housing.

Image forming apparatus including fixing liquid spraying device and collecting device

An image forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction; a developing cartridge; a transfer unit; a solvent cartridge accommodating solvent for dissolving toner; an applicator applying the solvent to the toner on a sheet; and a cover movable between an open position and a closed position. The developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are detachably attachable to the main casing independently of each other. The developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are positioned between the applicator and the cover in a second direction crossing the first direction, and the solvent cartridge is positioned closer to the applicator than the developing cartridge is to the applicator in a state where the developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are attached to the main casing and the cover is at the closed position.

Image forming apparatus to which solvent cartridge that can accommodate therein solvent is detachably attachable independently of developing cartridge

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus which includes a tank including a liquid storage chamber, an inlet, a liquid lead-out channel, and an atmosphere communication channel, a conveyance mechanism, a carriage, and a head. A lower end of the inlet is positioned at a lower side of the nozzles, and the liquid storage chamber is arranged at a position shifted from the nozzles, in a first-direction side of the front-rear direction, and shifted from the conveyance route, to a second-direction side of the left-right direction. The liquid storage chamber is connected to the liquid outflow channel at a position on a lower side of a center in a up-down direction of the liquid storage chamber, and in the first direction from a center in the front-rear direction of the liquid storage chamber, and on the second-direction side of a center in the left-right direction of the liquid storage chamber.

A fixing deviceincludes a nozzle unitA and an opposite electrodeB. The nozzle unitA sprays a fixing solution to a sheet S on which a toner image is formed. The opposite electrodeB is located at an interval from the nozzle unitA. The opposite electrodeB is applied with a voltage. The opposite electrodeB has a first flat plateand a plurality of first projections. The first flat plateextends in a first direction. The plurality of first projectionsextends from the first flat platein a second direction that is a direction facing from the opposite electrodeB toward the nozzle unitA. The plurality of first projectionsare aligned in the first direction.

Fixing device

A fixing devicehas a nozzle unitA. The nozzle unitA sprays the fixing solution to a sheet S on which a toner image is formed. The nozzle unitA has a housing, a nozzle electrodeand a plurality of nozzles. The plurality of nozzleshas a first nozzleA and a second nozzleB located at an interval from the first nozzleA in a first direction, and the nozzle electrodeis located inside the housing. The nozzle electrodeextends in the first direction. A length Lof the nozzle electrodein the first direction is greater than the interval between the first nozzleA and the second nozzleB in the first direction.

A tank is configured to be installed in a liquid consuming apparatus having a liquid consuming unit. The tank includes: a casing having a first partition wall defining a first storage chamber configured to store liquid and a second partition wall defining a second storage chamber configured to store the liquid. The casing is formed with: an inlet provided to inject the liquid into the first storage chamber and the second storage chamber; a communication port communicating the first storage chamber and the second storage chamber; an atmosphere opening port communicating the second storage chamber and the outside of the tank; and a liquid outflow port through which the liquid stored in the first storage chamber and the second storage chamber flows out toward the liquid consuming unit.

Tank and liquid consuming apparatus including the same

A sealing member for an ink container includes a main body portion and a protruding portion. The ink container includes a refill port. The main body portion is configured to seal the refill port. The protruding portion is disposed on an upper surface of the main body portion and protrudes from the upper surface of the main body portion. The protruding portion extends at least through a central axis of the main body portion. A center of gravity of the protruding portion is offset from the central axis of the main body portion.

Sealing member, ink container, and inkjet printer

An ink container for an inkjet printer includes an ink containing portion. The ink containing portion contains ink and includes an upper surface including a placing portion, a refill port disposed on the upper surface, and a sealing member. The sealing member includes a sealing portion located at the center and an outer peripheral portion located at the outer periphery. An outer diameter of the sealing portion matches with an inner diameter of the refill port. The placing portion further includes a first recess portion and a positioning portion extending in a circumferential direction of the first recess portion. The first recess portion is configured to receive the sealing member and not to contact the sealing portion. The positioning portion includes a restricting portion configured to reduce horizontal movement of the outer peripheral portion and a supporting portion configured to vertically support the outer peripheral portion.

Ink container with refill port and sealing member

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Owariasahi, Japan

Masataka Kamiya