Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Misato Osuka

Masashi Iwamoto

Ryuichi Kanda

Nao Itabashi

Naoya Kamimura

Kazutoshi Nakamura

Yuichiro Suzuki

Junichi Hashimoto

Yasuo Fukamachi

Tomitake Aratachi

Hidenori Jo

Shinya Kusuda

Saya Minoshima

Ryoya Takahashi

Junya Sumida

Keita Shimizu

Yuwen Wang

Masaaki Furukawa

Shota Iriyama

Kazuma Hinoue

Yasutoshi Kano

Kenta Tosuji

Ryosuke Hayashi

Tsubasa Kiriyama

Daisuke Ishizuka

Go Iwasa

Kohei Takahashi

An image forming apparatus includes a main housing, a process unit, and a fixing device including a lever. The main housing comprises an interlock switch that allows power to be supplied to a heater of the fixing device in an on-state and shuts off power to the heater in an off-state. The lever includes a holding portion and a switch contacting portion contactable with the interlock switch. In a case where the fixing device is installed in the main housing and the lever is located at a first position, the switch contacting portion is in contact with the interlock switch to set the interlock switch to the on-state. In a case where the fixing device is installed in the main housing and the lever is located at a second position, the switch contacting portion is separated from the interlock switch to set the interlock switch to the off-state.

Image forming apparatus with fixing device having lever and fixed handle

An editing device is configured to edit print data including first print data and second print data via a display device for creating a composite label with a printing device. The composite label includes a first label and a second label and is created by superposing the second label over the first label. A set of program instructions, when executed by a controller of the editing device, causes the editing device to perform displaying an editing screen on the display device. The editing screen has a first region, a second region, and a composite region. The displaying displays a first label image based on the first print data in the first region, a second label image based on the second print data in the second region, and a composite label image formed by superposing the second label image over the first label image in the composite region.

Editing device editing print data via display device for creating composite label with printing device

A developing cartridge includes a casing, a developing roller rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction, a developing memory having an electrical contact surface, an agitator, an agitator gear rotatable about an agitator axis together with the agitator, a holder holding the electrical contact surface, and a plate movable between a first position and a second position in a second direction crossing the first direction relative to the casing. The holder is movable relative to the casing in a third direction crossing the first and second directions between a retracted position and an advancing position. The holder is movable from the retracted position to the advancing position in response to a movement of the plate from the first position to the second position. The plate is positioned farther away from the developing roller than the agitator gear and the holder are in the second direction.

Developing cartridge including movable plate for moving holder holding electrical contact surface

An image forming apparatus includes a main housing, a drawer, and a cartridge. The drawer is movable between an inside position inside the main housing and an outside position outside the main housing. The cartridge is installable into and removable from the drawer. The cartridge includes a photosensitive drum configured to rotate about a drum axis. The drawer comprises a lock member movable between a lock position in which the drawer is locked to the main housing, and an unlock position in which the drawer is unlocked from the main housing. The cartridge installed in the drawer is rotatable about the drum axis between a first position and a second position. The lock member is positioned in the lock position when the cartridge is positioned in the first position, and positioned in the unlock position when the cartridge is positioned in the second position.

Image forming apparatus

A jig for sticking a first sheet superposed on a second sheet to the second sheet in a thickness direction of the first and second sheets includes a first regulating portion, a second regulating portion, and a nipper. The first regulating portion regulates a position of the first sheet superposed on the second sheet to be aligned with a position of the second sheet in a first direction perpendicular to the thickness direction. The second regulating portion regulates a position of the first sheet superposed on the second sheet to be aligned with a position of the second sheet in a second direction perpendicular to the thickness direction and the first direction. The nipper nips the first sheet and the second sheet superposed and aligned with each other in the thickness direction such that at least a part of a peripheral portion of the first sheet is exposed.

Jig providing accurate positional relationship between upper and lower labels for sticking the labels to each other

The disclosure discloses a cutting apparatus including a movable blade and a guide device. The movable blade is configured to move along a sliding direction to a cutting position. The guide device includes an upper guide part including a contact part and a lower guide part including at least one guide surface. The contact part is disposed at a position separated from a first blade edge of the fixed blade by a first distance in the transport direction and by a second distance in an upper direction. The at least one guide surface that inclines in an inclination direction in which the at least one guide surface inclines downward at a predetermined angle toward a downstream in the transport direction and is disposed to have an interval of a third distance against the contact part in a direction orthogonal to the inclination direction.

Cutting apparatus and printer

The disclosure discloses a cutting apparatus including a feeder, a fixed blade, a movable blade, and at least one scraping-off device. The movable blade is configured to slide in a sliding direction crossing a transport direction against the fixed blade and is configured to move along the sliding direction from a standby position on one side to a cutting position on the other side and to cut the print-receiving medium fed by the feeder. The at least one scraping-off device is disposed in proximity to the movable blade and is configured to come into contact from the other side with an adhesive that has adhered to the movable blade and scrape off the adhesive when the movable blade moves from the standby position on the one side to the cutting position on the other side.

A cutting device includes a receiving block configured such that an object to be cut is arranged thereon, a cutting blade that includes a blade portion, the cutting blade being configured to move between a separated position and a contact position via a clamping position, a first rotating member coupled with the cutting blade, the first rotating member being configured to cause the cutting blade to move from the separated position to the contact position via the clamping position, by the first rotating member rotating in a specified direction from a separated rotation position to a contact rotation position via a clamping rotation position, an elastic member provided on the first rotating member, a DC motor, and a second rotating member configured to rotate in accordance with rotation of the DC motor.

Cutting device

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Nagoya, Japan

Misato Osuka