Seiko Epson Corporation

Nobutaka Suzuki

Yasunori Koike

Shoma Kudo

Masaki Shimomura

Katsutomo Tsukahara

Takashi Koase

Keigo Iizawa

Tetsuya Takamoto

Seiji Tezuka

Satoshi Tamai

Yuto Suzuki

Toru Nakazawa

Yutaka Kobayashi

Toshiya Okada

Masayuki Kanazawa

Naofumi Mimura

Hideaki Tokuda

Masatomo Kanamitsu

Ken Ikuma

Nobuhisa Nomoto

Shuhei Yamada

Yoshisada Aoki

Satoshi Shimizu

Soshi Okawa

Kazuhiro Nishiyama

Osamu Koyama

Noriaki Shimura

Koji Hara

Masahiro Kuroiwa

Junichiro Higuma

Tadayuki Inaoka

Nao Sato

Junpei Kurogi

A control unit of an image reader executes OCR (optical character recognition processing) on image data as a result of scanning a setup guide, and upon acquiring an SSID and an encryption key, attempts to communicate with a corresponding wireless LAN master device using the SSID and the corresponding encryption key.

Image reader and method of setting wireless setup information for image reader

A recording apparatus includes a head unit including a recording head and configured to move between a recording position where recording is performed on a medium and a retraction position away from a medium transportation path; a movement mechanism that moves the head unit; and a positioning portion configured to position the head unit at the recording position. A moment for rotating the head unit is produced by a force applied by the movement mechanism to the head unit and by a reaction force received by the head unit from the positioning portion. A unit pusher configured to apply, to the head unit, a force acting in a direction of canceling rotation of the head unit when the head unit is located at the recording position pushes the head unit in a direction intersecting with a moving direction of the head unit.

Recording apparatus

Provided is an image reading system that divides, with respect to image data obtained by performing a double sided reading in a state where a booklet is opened, cover sheet image data into two parts corresponding to a pair of cover sheets to arrange the two parts at a front and an end, respectively, and arranges main text image data between the front and the end, and then generates an image file from each of the arranged image data.

Image reading system, image reading method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program

A recording device includes a transportation path that transports a medium, a recording portion configured to move with respect to the transportation path in a direction intersecting with a recording surface of the medium, a moving mechanism that moves the recording portion, and a motor that causes the recording portion to move, and the moving mechanism includes a first member on which a first rack is formed in a moving direction of the recording portion, a first pinion gear that is engaged with the first rack, a second rack that is provided at a position facing the first rack in the recording portion, formed in the moving direction, and engaged with the first pinion gear, and a second member in which the first pinion gear is rotatably provided that is configured to move in the moving direction by receiving the power of the motor.

Recording device

A recording apparatus includes: a recording section that is configured to move between a first position at which a liquid ejecting section performs recording on a medium transported on a transport path and a second position at which the recording section is retreated from the transport path; a wiper that wipes a liquid ejection surface of the liquid ejecting section by moving in a direction extending along the liquid ejection surface in a state in which the recording section is at the second position; and a regulating unit that is configured to switch between a regulating state in which regulating of movement of the recording section in the first direction is performed and a non-regulating state in which the regulating is not performed and that has the regulating state when the recording section is at the second position.

A controller stores, in a server apparatus, at least part of image data acquired by reading a image by a reading unit when a data size of the image data acquired by reading the image from a document exceeds an upper limit data size, and transmits, to the specified transmission destination, an e-mail indicating a storage destination when the image data is stored in the server apparatus.

Image reading apparatus, image reading system, image reading control method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program

A liquid jet apparatus comprises a liquid jet head, a carriage carrying the liquid jet head in a side-to-side direction, a liquid flow channel, and a liquid container in fluid communication with the liquid jet head through the liquid flow channel. The liquid container includes a liquid containing chamber arranged along a front/back direction orthogonal to the side-to-side direction; a liquid outlet port, from which the liquid contained in the liquid containing chamber flows to the liquid flow channel; and a liquid inlet port, through which the liquid is injected into the liquid containing chamber. The liquid inlet port has an end surface that does not face in a vertical direction relative to a normal posture of the apparatus.

Liquid container, liquid consuming apparatus, liquid supply system and liquid container unit

A liquid container includes an ink chamber containing an ink to be supplied via a tube to a liquid ejecting head consuming the ink; an outlet port from which the ink contained in the ink chamber flows to the tube side; an injection port through which the ink can be injected into the ink chamber; and an air intake port taking air into the ink chamber from a further vertically upper position than a liquid level of the ink when the ink is contained in the ink chamber. If the ink equal to 5% of containing capacity containable in the ink chamber flows from the outlet port, the liquid container has an area where a fluctuation range of the liquid level of the ink inside the ink chamber becomes 5% or less of the cubic root of the containing capacity.

A liquid ejecting apparatus capable of supplying liquid stably and continuously through a liquid supplying tube which performs a following deformation in accordance with a movement of a carriage embedded with a liquid ejecting head, while achieving compactness of a main body of the apparatus. The liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head capable of ejecting ink onto a sheet; a carriage capable of reciprocating inside a main body case in a state of being embedded with the liquid ejecting head and an adaptor capable of supplying ink to the liquid ejecting head; and an ink supplying tube which performs a following deformation in the main body case in accordance with the reciprocation of the carriage in a state of being led out to be able to supply ink from an ink tank at an upstream side, disposed outside a movement range of the carriage, to the adaptor at a downstream side.

Liquid ejecting apparatus

A liquid ejection apparatus includes a cover unit that is movable relative to a housing, an ink tank provided outside the housing in a state containing ink, a ink supplying tube in which ink can flow so that ink is supplied from the ink tank to the liquid ejection head, and an insertion hole that allows the ink supplying tube to be inserted into the housing, wherein the housing is formed by a housing portion in which a container that houses a stacker is formed to protrude, and a housing portion which has an operation panel having an inclined surface which protrudes at a position above the container, and the insertion hole is provided on at least one of the housing and the cover unit.

Liquid ejection apparatus including a liquid supply tube

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a main body in which an opening portion exposing at least a portion of a carriage moving area, a cover section displaceable with the main body, an ink tank that is located outside the main body, an ink supply tube for supplying ink from the ink tank to a head, and a spacer that forms a gap between the main body and the cover. An accommodation section is configured by a casing portion formed to protrude in a discharge direction of paper. An operation panel section is configured by a casing portion exhibiting an inclined surface. The spacer forms a gap having a size that does not shut off at least an ink flow path of the ink supply tube and passes the ink supply tube through the formed gap.

Liquid ejecting apparatus including a gap forming member having a locking member

Liquid conatiner, liquid consuming apparatus, liquid supply system and liquid container unit

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a housing and a movement region of a carriage including a liquid ejecting head, an ink tank positioned at the outer side of the movement region of the carriage, an ink supply tubes connecting the ink tank and an adapter on the carriage, and a fixing portion fixing a portion of the ink supply tubes. In the housing, a containing unit of a sheet feeding cassette is formed to project to a discharge direction of a sheet and an operation panel unit is configured to have a housing portion having an inclined surface whose lower side further projects to the discharge direction than the upper side. The ink supply tubes have a deformable moving unit performing a movement of the carriage on a portion of a liquid ejecting head side rather than a fixing portion using a fixing tool.

An image forming apparatus includes a main body and a rotating member unit having a rotating member. The rotating member unit is detachably held in the main body. The main body of the image forming apparatus has a retainer which retains a shaft penetrating and supporting the rotating member, and the retainer has a first shaft retaining member which supports the shaft at a front side as seen from the insertion direction of the rotating member unit.

Image forming apparatus in which axis deviation of rotating member is prevented

An image forming apparatus has plural image forming stations along a travel direction of a transfer medium. Each image forming station has a latent image carrier that rotates in a sub scanning direction, an image writer that forms a latent image on the latent image carrier and a developer that has a toner carrier extending along a main scanning direction approximately perpendicular to the sub scanning direction. Each image writer has a line head near the latent image carrier with light emitting elements arranged in a row along the main scanning direction. Rotation drive force developing at one common motor is transmitted to plural places in sections of the apparatus to superimpose toner images one atop the other. A motor main section of the common motor overlaps the transfer medium in the in-plane arrangement viewed from a vertical direction perpendicular to both the main and sub scanning directions.

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Nobutaka Suzuki