Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Satoshi Uchiyama

Katsuyoshi Sonobe

Nobuo Aoki

Kazuichi Sakaida

Hiroshi Igarashi

Yasunari Yoshida

Noritsugu Ito

Makoto Yamada

Michitoshi Akao

A printer having an adjusting apparatus for adjusting a head gap between a print head and a print sheet supported on a platen, is disclosed. In such printer, at first, a carriage 1 mounting the print head 8 thereon is advanced to the print sheet 6 by eccentrically rotating a guide bar 3 passed through a slide hole 1a with a solidable lubricant therebetween through a step motor 12 until a ribbon mask 9 contacts to the print sheet 6. And a drive pulse number Nm, which is input to the step motor 12 until the ribbon mask 9 contacts to the print sheet 6 and corresponds to moving distance of the carriage 1 from a standard position O, is calculated. Further, a value Na (=N1-Nm) representing a drive pulse number for the step motor 12 corresponding to a thickness of the print sheet 6, is calculated. Here, the N1 is a drive pulse number necessary to advance the carriage 1 toward the platen 2 till the ribbon mask 9 contacts to the platen 2 in case that the print sheet 6 is not supported on the platen 2 and stored in a NVRAM 29. Next, it is judged whether the calculated Na is bigger than or equal to a NaO which is stored in a ROM 25 and corresponds to a drive pulse number for the step motor 12 necessary to obtain the optimum gap between the print head 8 and the print sheet 6 when the print sheet 6 with 0.4 mm thickness is utilized.

Printer with print gap control

An image recording apparatus having a lens unit and a mirror unit. The lens unit and the mirror unit are movably supported by a frame of the apparatus. A cam plate is provided at the lens unit, and a lever is in abutment with the cam plate. When the lens unit is moved in a direction, the cam plate is also moved, so that the lever is pivotally moved. The lever is abutted on the mirror unit. The pivotal motion of the lever, the mirror unit is also moved in another direction. The cam plate has a plurality of cam surfaces each defining respective copying magnifications.

Image recording apparatus having image magnification control means

An image recording apparatus for recording an image corresponding to an original on a photosensitive recording medium by irradiating light onto the original and converging light from the original onto the photosensitive recording medium. The apparatus includes a lens unit vertically movably supported by the frame, a plurality of position setting holes arrayed in a vertical direction of the frame, position setting means provided on the lens unit and capable of being inserted into one of the position setting holes for fixing the lens unit to the frame, urging means provided on the lens unit for urging the position setting means toward the frame to project the position setting means, actuating means provided on the lens unit for actuating the position setting means so that the position setting means retracts and moves away from the frame against urging force of the urging means when electric current is supplied to the actuating means. The apparatus further includes control means for controlling the actuating means so that when an error is detected during movement of the lens unit, electric current to the actuating means is cut off to project the position setting means by the urging force of the urging means and to fix the lens unit to the frame.

Image recording apparatus having a mechanism for varying copying

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Kasugai, Japan

Satoshi Uchiyama