Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Brother Industries, Ltd.

Noritsugu Ito

Wataru Sugiyama

Shingo Ito

Naokazu Tanahashi

Mikio Hirano

Taichi Shirono

Tadanobu Chikamoto

Suguru Tomoguchi

Hiroshi Igarashi

Shuichi Tamaki

Akinori Igarashi

Shinji Kimura

Hideki Shioya

Naoya Kamimura

Yasunari Yoshida

Takaichiro Umeda

Hiroshi Taira

Tomohisa Higuchi

Katsunori Nishida

Tatsuya Shindo

Masatoshi Izuchi

Yoshihumi Suzuki

Takashi Nakata

Hikaru Kaga

Akira Shinoda

Masataka Kamiya

Nobuo Hiraki

Shogo Suzuki

Tsuyoshi Kushida

Kazuya Asano

Satoshi Uchiyama

Kazuhiro Omura

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Yoichi Shikai

A method for manufacturing a liquid cartridge for recycling includes a preparing step and a first step. The preparing step prepares the liquid cartridge for recycling. The liquid cartridge for recycling includes a liquid accommodating portion, a flowing path, a stopper, and a valve. The first step includes a first insertion step, a firs valve open step, a first injection step, a first valve close step, a first removal step, and a first mounting step. The first insertion step inserts an injection member into the stopper. The first injection step injects the liquid into the liquid accommodating portion through the injection member, after the first insertion step and the first valve open step. The first removal step removes the stopper from the opening while the valve is maintained in the closed position after the first valve close step. The first mounting step mounts a new stopper.

Method of manufacturing a liquid cartridge and a liquid cartridge for recycling

A method for manufacturing a liquid cartridge for recycling includes a preparing step and a first step. The preparing step prepares the liquid cartridge for recycling. The liquid cartridge for recycling includes a liquid accommodating portion, a flowing path, a stopper, and a valve. The first step includes a first insertion step, a first valve open step, a first injection step, a first valve close step, a first removal step, and a first mounting step. The first insertion step inserts an injection member into the stopper. The first injection step injects the liquid into the liquid accommodating portion through the injection member, after the first insertion step and the first valve open step. The first removal step removes the stopper from the opening while the valve is maintained in the closed position after the first valve close step. The first mounting step mounts a new stopper.

A liquid cartridge includes a liquid accommodating unit, a delivery channel, a valve, and a locking mechanism. The liquid accommodating unit is configured to accommodate liquid. The delivery channel is configured to discharge the liquid outside. The delivery channel is in fluid communication with the liquid accommodating unit. The valve includes a valve body provided in the delivery channel. The valve body is configured to selectively move between a closed position where the delivery channel is closed and an open position where the delivery channel is open. The locking mechanism includes a locking member configured to selectively move between a locking position to prevent the valve body positioned at the closed position from moving to the open position and a disengaged position to allow the valve body positioned at the closed position to move to the open position.

Liquid cartridge and liquid-ejecting device provided with the same

A liquid cartridge includes a liquid storing portion that stores liquid therein, a detection portion in fluid communication with the liquid storing portion, a movable member that is disposed in the detection portion, and a sensor that outputs a signal relative to a position of the movable member.

Liquid cartridge

An ink cartridge includes: a case; an ink accommodating unit; a moving body; a single detecting unit; and a storing unit. The ink accommodating unit is provided in the case and is configured to accommodate ink therein. The moving body is configured to move relative to the case. The single detecting unit is provided to the case and is configured to output a signal corresponding to a position of the moving body relative to the case. The storing unit is configured to store time length data indicative of a length of time to be taken by a value of the signal to change from a first prescribed value to a second prescribed value different from the first prescribed value.

Ink cartridge and recording device having ink cartridge detachably mounted therein

A circuit board unit which is attached to the cartridge includes a circuit board on which an electronic component is mounted, a first member having a surface opposing the circuit board, and a second member which is bonded to a region of the surface of the first member which region is different from the region of the surface opposing the circuit board. The circuit board is not fixed to the first member and the second member and is retained between the first member and the second member with gaps extending in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the surface and in a surface direction in parallel to the surface.

Circuit board unit, cartridge, and manufacturing method thereof

A cartridge includes a substrate and an engagement portion. The first surface faces a first direction and has a first surface on which an electrical terminal is disposed. The engagement portion includes a second surface disposed upstream from the substrate in the first direction and a third surface. The second surface faces a second direction, which forms an obtuse angle with the first direction. The third surface faces a third direction, which forms an acute angle with the first direction. The third surface does not overlap with the substrate in the first direction and the third surface is disposed downstream from the second surface in the first direction.

Cartridges and recording apparatuses

A liquid cartridge includes a liquid storing portion that stores liquid therein, a liquid path that is in fluid communication with the liquid storing portion, a sensor, and a memory. The sensor outputs a particular data corresponding to a particular value indicating that the liquid storing portion is in fluid communication with an exterior of the liquid cartridge, and a further data corresponding to a further value indicating that the liquid storing portion is not in fluid communication with the exterior of the liquid cartridge. The memory includes a first data corresponding to a first value and a second data corresponding to a second value. The first value and the second value are defined such that when the particular data and the further data are outputted, one half of a sum of the first value and the second value is between the particular value and the further value.

Liquid cartridge, liquid ejecting device comprising liquid cartridge and main body, method of manufacturing liquid cartridge, and method of refurbishing liquid cartridge

A liquid cartridge includes a liquid storing portion that stores liquid therein, a liquid path that is in fluid communication with the liquid storing portion, a sealing member that is selectively penetrated and closed, and a storage. The storage includes a first count storage area configured to store first count data corresponding to a number of times the sealing member has been penetrated at a first position, and a first position sealing data corresponding to a first number that is comparable to the first count data.

Liquid cartridge, liquid ejecting device, method of manufacturing liquid cartridge, and method of refurbishing liquid cartridge

The method includes: (a) preparing a liquid cartridge to be recycled and including a liquid storing unit, a liquid delivery path having an opening, a blocking member detachably mounted in the liquid delivery path to block the opening, and a valve configured to be switched between an open state and a closed state; (b) removing the blocking member from the liquid delivery path; (c) switching the valve from the closed state to the open state; (d) injecting liquid into the liquid storing unit through the opening with the blocking member removed in step (b) and the valve maintained in the open state achieved in step (c); (e) switching the valve from the open state to the closed state after performing step (d); and (f) assembling the blocking member or another blocking member different from the blocking member in the liquid delivery path to block the opening after performing step (e).

Methods of manufacturing recycled liquid cartridge and liquid cartridge, and liquid cartridge

A cartridge including: an engagement portion disposed on a first surface facing a first direction, a first reservoir storing a first liquid including a colorant, a second reservoir storing a second liquid having a characteristic of coagulating the colorant, and a third reservoir storing a third liquid including water. Each of the first, the second, and the third reservoirs includes an outlet portion that directs liquid from an interior of the respective reservoirs to an exterior of the cartridge in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The outlet portions of the first, the second, and the third reservoirs do not overlap each other in the first direction.

Cartridges

An ink cartridge includes: an ink accommodating unit; and a storing unit. The ink accommodating unit is configured to accommodate ink therein. The storing unit is configured to store time length data indicative of a length of time to be taken by the ink cartridge to move from a first position to a second position different from the first position, the first position and the second position being defined within a mounting unit in a recording device, the ink cartridge reaching the first position before reaching the second position when the ink cartridge is mounted in the mounting unit.

Ink cartridge, recording device, and method for controlling recording device

Ink cartridge

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Tokoname, Japan

Noritsugu Ito