Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Brother Industries, Ltd.

Mitsugi Tanaka

Yoshikazu Shimizu

Koshiro Yamaguchi

Yoshiya Tomatsu

Shigeru Matsumoto

Satoru Moriyama

Takahiro Nishimoto

Kenji Samoto

Kazunari Taki

Tsuyoshi Ohashi

Mikio Ogawa

Yasuhiro Iriyama

Mitsuyoshi Watanabe

Masayuki Okumura

Kunihiro Yasui

Toshiyuki Furuyama

Koji Sugiyama

Koji Takito

Yasuhisa Ichikawa

Toshio Takahashi

Kiyoichi Ohta

Yoji Tsujishita

Hiroshi Uchigashima

Takeshi Ikeda

Akito Uekihara

Saturo Moriyama

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

There is provided an image recording apparatus including: a casing; a first cover configured to move to an open position and to a close position; a conveyor configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; a recording head configured to discharge a liquid onto the sheet; a heater configured to heat at least one of the sheet and the liquid discharged to the sheet; a second cover configured to cover the heater. The second cover is configured to move to a cover position at which the second cover covers the heater so that the heater is not exposed to the outside and to an expose position at which the second cover allows the heater to be exposed to the outside.

Image recording apparatus

There is provided an image recording apparatus including: a conveyer configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; a head configured to discharge a liquid toward the sheet; a heater configured to heat the sheet and/or the liquid on the sheet; a reader positioned downstream in the conveying direction of the heater, the reader being configured to read an image, on the sheet, formed by the head and the heater; and a holder positioned between the reader and the heater in the conveying direction, the holder being configured to hold a body of rotation configured to contact a recording surface of the sheet. In a crossing direction orthogonal to the conveying direction and crossing the recording surface of the sheet being conveyed by the conveyer, both ends in the crossing direction of the holder are positioned outside of both ends in the crossing direction of the reader.

A print device includes a supply unit, a print unit, a conveyer, a tensioner, and a rotor. The conveyer is configured to nip and to convey, with a pair of rollers, a long medium in a conveyance direction. The tensioner is configured to contact a second surface of the medium to cause the medium to bend. The tensioner is pivotably supported at a position upstream of the conveyer in the conveyance direction. The rotor is rotatably supported at a position upstream of the conveyer in the conveyance direction, and positioned downstream, in the conveyance direction, of an upstream end portion, in the conveyance direction, of the tensioner. The rotor is positioned such that an upper end of the rotor and a nipped point are at a same height. The rotor is configured to contact the second surface.

Print device and conveyance device with tensioner

There is provided a printing apparatus including: a head unit including two first heads and a second head; a support unit arranged to face the head unit and has a support surface; and a sensor arranged between a first virtual line extending in a conveyance direction so as to pass an end of a nozzle group area, of one of the two first heads, defined on a side of other of the two first heads and a second virtual line extending in the conveyance direction so as to pass an end of a nozzle group area, of the other of the two heads, defined on a side of the one of the two first heads, and arranged, in the conveyance direction, upstream of a nozzle group of the second head, the sensor including a projecting member which projects toward the supporting surface with respect to a nozzle surface.

A liquid discharge apparatus is provided, which comprises a conveyor, a support member which supports a medium existing in a conveying passage, a head, a maintenance mechanism which has a wiper, and a wiper cleaner. The maintenance mechanism is opposed to a nozzle surface of the head and movable to a wiping position at which the wiper abuts against the nozzle surface and a cleaning position at which the wiper abuts against the wiper cleaner. The wiper cleaner is disposed at a position at which a part thereof is overlapped with the support member in a direction orthogonal to the nozzle surface under or below the support member.

Liquid discharge apparatus

A conveyor includes: a receiver that detachably receives a roll-like sheet; a conveyance unit that conveys the sheet in a conveyance orientation along a conveyance surface; and a tensioner that applies tension to the sheet at a position upstream of the conveyance unit in the conveyance orientation. The tensioner includes: a frame having a groove pair extending in a first direction along the conveyance orientation; a guide having a curved surface that contacts the sheet and an engagement member pair that engages with the groove pair; a pivoting member that pivots around an axis extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and parallel to the conveyance surface; a transmission member that transmits pivoting of the pivoting member to the guide; and an urging member that applies urging force including a component in the first direction to the guide.

Conveyor and image recording apparatus

A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit which performs printing on a medium, a main body; a conveyer which conveys the medium; a post-processing unit which performs a post-processing for the medium on which the printing has been performed by the printing unit; a first cover rotatably supported by the main body and in which at least the post-processing part is installed; a second cover arranged to be adjacent to the first cover and supported by the main body such that the second cover is rotatable coaxially with the first cover; and an engaging mechanism which changes a state of the first cover and the second cover between an engaged state and a non-engaged state.

A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a casing having: a first surface and a second surface positioned apart in a first direction; a third surface and a fourth surface positioned apart in a second direction; and a fifth surface and a sixth surface positioned apart in a third direction; a head; a tank storing a liquid to be supplied to the head; and a sheet accommodating portion accommodating a sheet. The tank is positioned between the first surface and the sheet accommodating portion in the first direction. A range occupied by the tank at least partially overlaps with a range occupied by the sheet accommodating portion in the second direction. A range occupied by the tank at least partially overlaps with a range occupied by the sheet accommodating portion in the third direction.

A liquid discharge apparatus is provided, which comprises a conveyer, a rotatable support mechanism which supports a medium, a head, and a maintenance mechanism which has a cap configured to cover nozzles of the head. The support mechanism is configured to rotate about a rotation shaft to a first rotation position and a second rotation position at which a rotation end is separated further from the head as compared with a situation provided at the first rotation position. The maintenance mechanism is configured to move to a waiting position which is positioned oppositely to the rotation shaft of the support mechanism with respect to the rotation end of the support mechanism and a maintenance position which is positioned between the head and the support mechanism disposed at the second rotation position and at which the cap covers the nozzles.

A liquid discharge apparatus is provided, which comprises a head, a maintenance mechanism which has a cap and which is movable to a maintenance position and a waiting position, a first support mechanism which supports the maintenance mechanism disposed at the maintenance position, and a second support mechanism which supports the maintenance mechanism disposed at the waiting position. One of the first and second support mechanisms is relatively movable to a first position and a second position with respect to the other. When the one of them is disposed at the first position, both of them is configured to support the maintenance mechanism simultaneously. When the one of them is disposed at the second position, the other of them is separated away from the maintenance mechanism.

A printing apparatus includes: a sheet storing part configured to store a sheet; a conveying mechanism configured to convey the sheet taken out from the sheet storing part; a first frame and a second frame arranged in an opposing direction with the conveying mechanism interposed therebetween; a printing part configured to perform printing on the sheet conveyed by the conveying mechanism; a cover composing at least a part of an upstream side, of the printing apparatus, with respect to the printing part in a conveyance direction in which the sheet is conveyed by the conveying mechanism; and a rotational shaft extending in the opposing direction and configured to support the cover to be rotatable. The rotational shaft has a first end and a second end in the opposing direction, and the first end is supported by the first frame and the second end is separated away from the second frame.

The disclosure discloses a label producing apparatus including a driving roller, a driven roller, a driving force transmission mechanism, and a coordination adjusting mechanism. The driving roller is disposed to a downstream side of a movable blade on a tape feeding path and configured to contact and discharge a label tape. The driven roller is configured to advance and retreat with respect to the tape feeding path. The driving force transmission mechanism is configured to perform a switching operation between a transmission state where a driving force of a motor is transmitted to the driving roller and an interruption state where the transmission of the driving force to the driving roller is interrupted. The coordination adjusting mechanism is configured to adjust an advancing and retreating operation of the driven roller, an advancing and retreating operation of the movable blade, and the switching operation of the driving force transmission mechanism into a desired mutually coordinated-mode, these operations being performed by the driving force of the motor in accordance with a rotation of the motor in one direction.

Label producing apparatus

A lengthy article take-up apparatus includes a housing, a winding core member, a bearing portion and a driving gear is provided. The winding core member is configured to take up the lengthy article. The winding core member includes a shaft member, a cylindrical winding body, a driven gear, and a lock member. The shaft member is configured to be detachably fitted to the bearing portion. The cylindrical winding body is disposed rotatably on an outer periphery of the shaft member and configured to wind the lengthy article on an outer peripheral side. The driven gear is fixed to the winding body and configured to be meshed with the driving gear when the winding core member is attached to the housing. The lock member is configured to fix the shaft member to the bearing portion when the winding core member is attached to the housing.

Lengthy article take-up apparatus and lengthy article printer

The disclosure discloses a tape cartridge including a first tape roll, a first support member, a storage medium, and a terminal part. The first tape roll has a first core that includes an outer circumferential side around which a tape is wound capable of being fed out. The first support member rotatably supports the first core of the first tape roll. The storage medium is disposed on the first support member and is capable of reading or writing of information. The terminal part is disposed on the first support member while being exposed outside and is conductive with the storage medium.

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Nagoya, Japan

Mitsugi Tanaka