Seiko Epson Corporation

Kyodo Yushi Co., Ltd.

Hosokawa Corporation

Ryuka Law Firm

Satoshi Nakata

Kazumasa Harada

Hitoshi Igarashi

Kazutoshi Matsuzaki

Hidetaka Kawata

Tadahiro Mizutani

Izumi Nozawa

Hidetoshi Kodama

Hisashi Miyazawa

Masaki Shimomura

Yasuto Sakai

Satoshi Shinada

Takeo Seino

Narihiro Oki

Munehide Kanaya

Hiroshige Owaki

Yoshihiro Koizumi

Katsumi Yamada

Kazuo Otsuka

Takayuki Shiota

Akira Anami

Mamoru Ukita

Katsunari Kumagai

Masahito Tatsumi

Hirokazu Nunokawa

Hironori Endo

Tatsuya Ito

Kazunori Takabayashi

Kazuhiro Hashii

Akihisa Wanibe

Kazuhisa Kawakami

Keisuke Sasaki

Morio Iwata

Masanari Tanaka

Yosuke Nakano

Masahiro Isono

Makoto Sato

Yoshiyuki Okazawa

Hirohisa Adachi

Matsutaro Naito

Naoki Sakamoto

Kazuya Yoshikaie

Kazuhiko Arimori

Masafumi Furuyama

Tomoyuki Kurata

Koji Niioka

Fumiaki Akahane

Kosuke Nomoto

Shingo Waki

Kenichi Furuya

Kenichiro Matsubara

Yoshiyuki Kimoto

Masamichi Yamamoto

Akio Todoriki

Daisuke Kanuma

Manato Nishi

Koji Hosokawa

A recording device includes a device body, a recording unit configured to record by ejecting liquid onto a medium, a waste liquid collecting unit configured to collect waste liquid generated inside the device body, a waste liquid storage unit configured to store the waste liquid collected via the waste liquid collecting unit, wherein the waste liquid storage unit is configured to be mountable to and removable from the device body and the waste liquid collecting unit includes a discharge portion configured to discharge the collected waste liquid to the waste liquid storage unit, and the discharge portion has a dam portion for blocking the waste liquid.

Recording device

A liquid container is configured to be refilled with a liquid from outside, the liquid container including a containing portion that contains the liquid, an inlet that is in communication with the containing portion and through which the liquid is poured, a lid portion that has an insertion portion to be inserted into the inlet and is configured to turn around a turning axis between a closed state in which the inlet is closed by inserting the insertion portion into the inlet and an open state in which the insertion portion is separated from the inlet, and a cover portion that covers the insertion portion in the open state, in which, when the lid portion is in the open state, the insertion portion does not project further than the cover portion when viewed in an axial direction of the turning axis.

Liquid container and recording device

A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit; an operation unit configured to be able to rotate about a rotation axis to a first operation position and a second operation position; a paper discharge tray configured to be able to move in a front-rear direction; a movement unit configured to move the paper discharge tray; a rotating mechanism configured to cause the operation unit from the first operation position to the second operation position in association with movement of the paper discharge tray; and a control unit, in which the paper discharge tray is able to move to an accommodating position, a loading position, and a stand-by position, when a position of the operation unit is the first operation position and the paper discharge tray moves between the accommodating position and the stand-by position, the rotating mechanism causes the operation unit to rotate from the first operation position to the second operation position, and when a position of the paper discharge tray is the accommodating position and the first condition is satisfied, the control unit performs first control in which the paper discharge tray is moved to the stand-by position. In the printing apparatus, the paper discharge tray, which is able to move in the front-rear direction, is able to move to the accommodating position, the loading position, and the stand-by position. When the position of the operation unit is the first operation position and the paper discharge tray moves between the accommodating position and the stand-by position, the rotating mechanism, which causes the operation unit to rotate from the first operation position to the second operation position in association with movement of the paper discharge tray, causes the operation unit to rotate from the first operation position to the second operation position. When the position of the paper discharge tray is the accommodating position and the first condition is satisfied, the control unit causes the paper discharge tray to move to the stand-by position.

Printing apparatus and controlling method

A recording apparatus includes: a recording portion that performs recording by ejecting a liquid onto a medium; a liquid accommodation portion that accommodates the liquid to be ejected by the recording portion; and a housing that includes an accommodation portion exterior that accommodates the liquid accommodation portion, wherein the liquid accommodation portion includes a viewing region configured that the liquid accommodated is viewed, the accommodation portion exterior of the housing includes a viewing portion that faces the viewing region and is configured that the liquid is viewed, and a lighting portion that takes in light from outside the housing, and an optical path through which the light taken in passes is provided between the liquid accommodation portion and the accommodation portion exterior.

Recording apparatus

A medium feeding device for feeding a medium through a feed opening, the medium feeding device including: a stacked unit that extends to pass through the feed opening and on which a medium is stacked; a feeding unit that feeds a medium stacked on the stacked unit; a regulating unit that regulates a position of a medium stacked on the stacked unit, in width directions; and a cover that opens and closes relative to the feed opening, wherein the regulating unit includes a main regulating member movable in the width directions and attached to the stacked unit and a subordinate regulating member movable in the width directions and attached to the cover, a downstream end, in a feed direction, of the main regulating member is located downstream of the feed opening, and the main regulating member is linked to and cooperates with the subordinate regulating member.

Medium feeding device, image recording apparatus, and image reading apparatus

A drainage container configured to be attached and detached in an attachment/detachment direction to and from an apparatus including a discharge portion to discharge drainage and configured to store the drainage discharged from the discharge portion, includes: a housing that stores the drainage and includes an opening formed in an upper surface of the housing; an accepting portion that accepts the drainage discharged from the discharge portion; and a lid portion configured to open and close the opening, in which the lid portion takes on an open state to open the opening when the drainage container is attached to the apparatus, and the lid portion takes on a closed state to close the opening when the drainage container is detached from the apparatus.

Drainage container and recording apparatus

A cassette portion includes a side guide, an end guide, and a paper detection portion. The side guide is movable in X direction and controls a motion of a first end portion of paper. The end guide is provided to the side guide to be movable in Y direction, and restricts a motion of a second end portion of the paper. The paper detection portion detects the first restricting position in the X direction of the side guide and a second restricting position in the Y direction of the end guide in a restricted state of the paper. The end guide includes a detection target portion formed such that detection information to be detected by the paper detection portion varies in the Y direction. The paper detection portion detects the first restricting position and the second restricting position by obtaining detection information from the detection target portion.

Medium loading device, recording apparatus, and medium discrimination

A control portion controls a reading portion and a discharge portion, and when a document is placed in a document placement portion, a transport path transports the document, and the reading portion reads an image of the document. When the discharge portion discharges the document for which reading is completed by the reading portion, a document receiving portion receives the document discharged by the discharge portion. The document receiving portion has a first region that overlaps the document placement portion when seen in a vertical direction, and a second region that does not overlap the document placement portion when seen in the vertical direction, and the discharge portion discharges the document so that at least part of the document is placed on the second region.

Image reading device, recording device, and control method for image reading device

A recording device includes a recording unit configured to eject a liquid onto a medium to record, a carriage including the recording unit and configured to move in an X direction corresponding to a medium width direction that intersects a Y direction corresponding to a medium transport direction, a liquid reservoir located in the carriage at a position above the recording unit, configured to contain a liquid, and having a fill port through which the liquid is supplied, a fill port unit located in the carriage at a position above the liquid reservoir and including a component for open/close operation of the fill port, and an operation unit through which the device is operated. The fill port unit and the operation unit partly overlap in a device front-rear direction that is parallel to the medium transport direction, when viewed in the X direction.

A printer as a medium processing apparatus includes a transport path through which a paper being transported passes, a recording head that records on the paper on the transport path, and a platen that forms at least a portion of the transport path as a path forming member with which the paper comes into contact, in which a surface resistance value of the path forming member changes according to an applied voltage of the medium.

Medium processing apparatus

A recording apparatus includes a medium storage cassette which includes a medium storage region and is capable of being inserted and removed with respect to an apparatus main body, in which the medium storage cassette includes a main cassette unit and a sub-cassette unit which is capable of switching between a first state and a second state which is displaced more in the removal direction than in the first state to expand the medium storage region, and in which the apparatus main body includes a cover which is provided to be capable of being displaced between a position corresponding to the first state of the sub-cassette unit and a position corresponding to the second state and which covers a top portion of the medium storage region on the removal direction side.

A recording apparatus is provided with a carriage that includes a recording head for recording on a medium and that is movable in a predetermined direction. The carriage includes plural cartridges that are removable and contain liquids to be ejected from the recording head, and an operating portion that performs operation to release fixation of the ink cartridges to the carriage. The ink cartridges are provided in the carriage to be arranged in a direction crossing a moving direction of the carriage, and the operating portion is located outside the ink cartridges in the moving direction of the carriage.

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Satoshi Nakata