Seiko Epson Corporation

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Ngk Insulators, Inc.

Munehide Kanaya

Shoma Kudo

Naomi Kimura

Kenji Tsukada

Hidenao Suzuki

Minoru Usui

Hisashi Miyazawa

Hiroshige Owaki

Takeo Seino

Satoshi Shinada

Takahiro Katakura

Satoshi Nakata

Masaki Shimomura

Yoshihiro Koizumi

Yasuto Sakai

Kazumichi Shimada

Atsushi Kobayashi

Takao Kobayashi

Soshi Okawa

Toyohiko Mitsuzawa

Noboru Tamura

Eiko Yanagida

Nobuyuki Nishi

Noriaki Okazawa

Tokujiro Okuno

Kazunaga Suzuki

Kazuo Koshino

Toshiaki Kakutani

Koichi Otsuki

Tsuyoshi Kitahara

Kazuhiko Hara

Nobuhisa Nomoto

Shigenori Fukasawa

Keigo Iizawa

Takayoshi Katsumura

Koji Nishimaki

Motonori Okumura

Satoshi Kawamura

Toshihiro Hayashi

Koki Hayashi

Masayuki Kanazawa

Takanori Matsuda

Naofumi Mimura

Hisanori Nakajima

Ryusuke Takakura

Keisuke Akimoto

Taku Ishizawa

Hitotoshi Kimura

Toshio Kumagai

Seiji Mochizuki

Katsuhiro Okubo

Hiroyuki Hagiwara

Yuji Aoki

Masahiko Yoshida

Satoru Hosono

Shinsuke Yano

Koichi Saito

Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Akihisa Wanibe

Yoshinori Miyazawa

Yoshiharu Aruga

Toshifumi Sakai

Shuji Yonekubo

Nagamitsu Takashima

Kazuhide Nakamura

Masahiko Sato

Yasunori Koike

Yuichi Nishihara

Kaoru Momose

Naoki Naito

Daisuke Hiruma

Hiroyuki Ishii

Hiroshi Nose

Yoshisada Aoki

Norihiko Kurashima

Toshinobu Yamazaki

Hikonosuke Uwai

Yoshio Miyazawa

Masaki Tsukida

Tomohiro Yamada

Shoichi Hiraide

Hideo Shimamura

Hiroyuki Kamikura

Kiyofumi Usui

Nobuyoshi Uji

Yasuto Kanai

Kazuyoshi Imai

Recording apparatus

An recording device includes a recording head that performs recording using ink; a liquid containing body that is capable of accommodating ink; a casing of which at least the recording portion and the liquid containing body are provided on an inside portion; a tube that connects the liquid containing body and the recording head with each other; and a operating panel that constitutes a portion of an outer covering of the recording device and operates the recording device. The operating panel is provided to be capable of performing an opening/closing operation with respect to the casing between two positions which are an opened position which exposes and a closed position which does not expose an inside of the casing, and at least a portion of the liquid containing body is exposed, by an opening operation of the operating panel.

Multifunction peripheral

A printing device includes a printing unit that performs printing on a medium using liquid. A liquid container includes a liquid containing chamber, which is capable of containing the liquid supplied to the printing unit, and a liquid inlet, which allows the liquid containing chamber to be filled with the liquid. A shell accommodates the printing unit and a portion of the liquid container. The liquid container includes a projecting portion that projects out of the shell. A protection member covers the projecting portion. The protection member projects out of the shell in a direction that is the same as a direction in which the liquid container projects out of the shell.

Printing device

There is provided a technique that enhances the detection accuracy of a liquid contained in a tank unit. A printeris provided with a tank unitA. The tank unitA includes a plurality of ink tanksA and a plurality of ink cylinder portionsA. Each of the plurality of ink cylinder portionsA is connected with corresponding one of the ink tanksA by a tube, such as to cause ink contained in the corresponding ink tankA to flow into the ink cylinder portionA. Each of the ink cylinder portionsA is provided with a pair of terminal pinsandthat are used for detection of ink. A horizontal sectional area of the ink cylinder portionA at a height position where the pair of terminal pinsandare provided is smaller than a horizontal sectional area of the ink tankA at a corresponding height position.

Liquid supply apparatus and liquid consuming apparatus

A technique of reducing the possibility that a liquid remains in a buffer chamber is provided. There is provided a liquid supply device configured to supply a liquid to a liquid ejection head. The liquid supply device comprises a liquid containing chamber configured to contain the liquid; an air communication path configured to include a first connection portion at one end that is connected with the liquid containing chamber and an air outlet port at the other end that is open to the atmosphere; and a buffer chamber provided in the middle of the air communication path. The air communication path includes a connection path that is located on a downstream side of the buffer chamber in the air communication path in a flow direction of a fluid from the air outlet port toward the liquid containing chamber and is configured to include a second connection portion at an upstream end connected with the buffer chamber. When the first connection portion is exposed to the liquid in the liquid containing chamber, the second connection portion is placed in a lower area in a vertical direction of the buffer chamber.

Liquid supply device, printing apparatus and liquid ejection system

Provided is a liquid supply apparatus and a liquid ejection apparatus according to which liquid injected through a liquid injection portion can be supplied stably. The liquid supply apparatus includes: a liquid containing chamber capable of containing a liquid to be supplied to a liquid ejection portion; an air chamber in communication with the atmosphere; a communication path that allows an air introduction port for introducing air into the liquid containing chamber and an air chamber to be in communication, and a liquid injection portion through which the liquid can be injected into the liquid containing chamber. The liquid containing chamber is fixed such that the air introduction port is located at a bottom portion of the liquid containing chamber. The volume of the communication path is smaller than the volume of the air chamber. The uppermost portion of the communication path is located above the uppermost portion of the liquid containing chamber.

Liquid supply apparatus, liquid ejection apparatus

A liquid supply device includes a liquid container that includes a liquid containing chamber, which is capable of containing liquid, and a liquid inlet, which allows the liquid containing chamber to be filled with liquid. An external member covers at least a portion of the liquid container excluding a portion where the liquid inlet is located from an outer side. A seal member seals a gap between the external member and the liquid inlet. The liquid supply device is configured to allow the liquid to be supplied from the liquid container to a printing unit that performs printing on a medium using the liquid.

Liquid supply device including liquid container and external member, and printing device including same

A liquid supplying apparatus, configured to supply a liquid to a liquid ejecting section that is configured to eject the liquid, includes a tank configured to contain the liquid, the tank including a liquid containing section, and a container section connected to the tank. The container section is exposed to air through the tank, and the container section is connected to the liquid containing section of the tank.

Liquid supplying apparatus, liquid ejecting apparatus, and liquid container unit

A liquid supply device that supplies a liquid to a head that ejects the liquid to an object includes a liquid storage chamber, an air introduction port, an atmospheric release flow path where one end is in communication with the air introduction port and another end is open to the atmosphere, and an air storage chamber configured to store air and provided in a portion of the atmospheric release flow path. A liquid supply flow path that supplies the liquid from the liquid storage chamber to the head is formed in a wall defining the air storage chamber. Thus, the size of a liquid ejection system is reduced.

Liquid supply device, and liquid ejection system

Provided is a liquid container that is able to prevent or suppress spilling of a liquid that is poured into an opening part. An ink cartridge has a first wall part defining a rear end of the ink cartridge and a second wall part extending on a forward side +X from an upper edge of the first wall part. An ink inlet port that receives ink for refilling is formed in the second wall part. Ink is poured into the ink inlet port from the first wall part side. The ink inlet port has a length dimension in the front-rear direction X that is longer than in the width direction Y, and thus readily receives ink that is poured therein.

Liquid container

A liquid ejecting system has a liquid ejecting apparatus, a liquid storing container, and a conduit. When the liquid storing container is pulled out from the case of the liquid ejecting apparatus, the visual recognition portion provided on the liquid storing container is exposed from the case.

Liquid ejecting system

A liquid container includes a liquid container portion and a liquid inlet portion. The liquid inlet portion is connected with the liquid container portion and configured to pour liquid into the liquid container portion. The liquid container portion includes a bottom wall, a liquid inlet portion-forming wall that is located above the bottom wall and at which the liquid inlet portion is arranged, a visual recognition wall, an opposite wall opposite the visual recognition wall, and a partition wall. The visual recognition wall is a wall that extends in a direction intersecting the bottom wall and the liquid inlet portion-forming wall and through which the liquid in the liquid container portion is visible from outside. At least a part of the partition wall is located between the visual recognition wall. The opening is an intersecting part at which the liquid inlet portion intersects with the liquid inlet portion-forming wall.

Liquid container, liquid container unit, liquid ejection system and liquid ejection apparatus

A liquid ejection system includes a liquid ejection head configured to ejecting liquid, a liquid storage container that includes a liquid storage portion capable of storing the liquid that is to be supplied to the liquid ejection head, and a ventilation unit that constitutes at least a portion of an air introduction portion that is in communication with the liquid storage portion and is configured to introducing air into the liquid storage portion, and is detachable from the liquid storage container. The ventilation unit includes an introduction passage that constitutes at least a portion of a path of air flowing toward the liquid storage portion in the air introduction portion, and an air chamber that constitutes at least a portion of the introduction passage. The ventilation unit is arranged in the periphery of the liquid storage container.

Liquid ejection system, ventilation unit, liquid supply apparatus

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Nagano, Japan

Munehide Kanaya