Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Takahiro Nishimoto

Fumikazu Sato

Tsutomu Suzuki

Yasuo Fukamachi

Motoaki Mushika

Hikaru Yoshizumi

Akihiro Kobayashi

Kengo Takeda

Kenta Hasebe

Kosuke Nukui

Mitsugi Tanaka

Yoshikazu Shimizu

Nao Itabashi

Hiroki Mori

Soichiro Nishimura

Takayuki Akimatsu

Kunihiko Kondo

Ikunobu Yoshiyama

Yumiko Oshika

There is provided an image recording apparatus including: a casing; a first cover configured to move to an open position and to a close position; a conveyor configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; a recording head configured to discharge a liquid onto the sheet; a heater configured to heat at least one of the sheet and the liquid discharged to the sheet; a second cover configured to cover the heater. The second cover is configured to move to a cover position at which the second cover covers the heater so that the heater is not exposed to the outside and to an expose position at which the second cover allows the heater to be exposed to the outside.

Image recording apparatus

A printer includes a platen, a first head, a second head, a first lamp, and a second lamp. The first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moved relatively with respect to the platen in a main scanning direction, and the platen is moved from the second head toward the first head relatively with respect to the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp, repeatedly. The second head ejects the second ink onto the object to be printed placed on the platen while the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moving in the main scanning direction. The first lamp irradiates light onto the second ink on the object to be printed while the first head, the second head, the first lamp, and the second lamp are moving in the main scanning direction.

Printer, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A printer includes a platen, a first head, a second head, and an illumination device. In a normal print mode, the first head, the second head, and the illumination device are moved relatively with respect to the platen in a main scanning direction, in a state in which a distance between the platen and a predetermined position of the illumination device in the height direction is a first distance, and the ink is ejected onto an object to be printed placed on the platen and the light is irradiated onto the ejected ink. In a gloss print mode, the first head, the second head, and the illumination device are moved relatively with respect to the platen in the main scanning direction, in a state in which the distance between the platen and the predetermined position in the height direction is a second distance larger than the first distance.

There is provided an image recording apparatus including: a conveyer configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; a head configured to discharge a liquid toward the sheet; a heater configured to heat the sheet and/or the liquid on the sheet; a reader positioned downstream in the conveying direction of the heater, the reader being configured to read an image, on the sheet, formed by the head and the heater; and a holder positioned between the reader and the heater in the conveying direction, the holder being configured to hold a body of rotation configured to contact a recording surface of the sheet. In a crossing direction orthogonal to the conveying direction and crossing the recording surface of the sheet being conveyed by the conveyer, both ends in the crossing direction of the holder are positioned outside of both ends in the crossing direction of the reader.

A movable assembly configured to move a table in a first direction is provided. The movable assembly includes a first link member including a first elongated member and a second elongated member coupled in an X formation, a second link member including a third elongated member and a fourth elongated member coupled in the X formation, a first frame member, a second frame member, and a rotatable member being a threaded rod. The first frame member includes a first supporting portion and a first guiding portion, which support ends of the first, second, third, and fourth elongated members on one side rotatably. The second frame member includes a second supporting portion and a second guiding portion, which support other ends of the first, second, third, and fourth elongated members located on the other side movably in the third direction.

Movable assembly and printing apparatus

An image recording apparatus, having a discharging head, a fan, and a controller, is provided. The discharging head includes a discharging surface and a plurality of nozzles arranged along a sub-scanning direction, which intersects orthogonally with a main scanning direction. The discharging head is configured to move in the main scanning direction. The fan is configured to generate an airflow for collecting mist of ink discharged through the nozzles. The controller is configured to obtain a droplet size of the ink to be discharged through the nozzles from one of a print job and a printing mode set in advance, obtain a distance between the discharging surface and a printable medium, and control a rotation speed of the fan based on the droplet size and the distance.

Image recording apparatus, method for image recording, and computer-readable storage medium

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head, a fixing device and a mist collector configured to collect a mist of a liquid. The mist collector and the fixing device are arranged side by side in this order in a first direction. The mist collector is provided with an air channel having a suction port and an exhaust port. The air channel has: a first part and a second part connected to an other end of the first part. The exhaust port is opened, in the second part, toward any one of directions which are: a direction including a direction opposite to the first direction as a directional component thereof, a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and a second direction, and a direction opposite to the third direction.

Liquid discharge apparatus, head unit and mist collector

Aspects described herein relate to a cap for a toner cartridge. In one example, the cap may be configured to close a toner supply opening of the toner cartridge. According to one or more aspects, the cap may include a sealing or covering portion configured to cover the toner supply opening and a shaft portion for rotatably supporting a to-be-detected rotary member. The to-be-detected rotary memberis rotatably supported around and fitted onto the shaft portion. Therefore, even if a toner supply opening of a cartridge is provided in a sidewall of the housing on a side where the to-be-detected rotary member is provided, e.g., a left sidewall, the toner supply opening and the to-be-detected rotary member can be provided in such a manner as to overlap each other.

Cap configuration for a toner cartridge

A charger is opposed to a charging subject member and charges the charging subject member by generating corona discharge. The charger includes: a discharge electrode; and a pair of facing electrodes that are disposed to face with each other being the discharge electrode interposed therebetween and arranged to be distant from the discharge electrode, wherein the facing electrodes are arranged that an interval between the facing electrodes gradually decreases towards the charging subject member.

Charger, image forming apparatus and process cartridge

An image forming device is provided with a process cartridge having a image carrying member, a main body including an attaching section to which the process cartridge is detachably attached, and an image transfer member to be press-contacted to the image carrying member for image transfer when the process cartridge is completely attached to the attaching section. The process cartridge may be configured to apply a pressing force to the attaching section when the process cartridge is not completely attached to the attaching section, and the image forming device may further include a separating mechanism configured to allow the press-contact between the image carrying member and the image transfer member when the process cartridge is completely attached to the attaching section, the separating mechanism operating to separate the image carrying member and the image transfer member when the pressing force is applied by the process cartridge to the attaching section.

Attaching and detaching a process cartridge of an image forming device

A developer cartridge includes a casing, an agitator, and a developing roller. The casing has a first inner space serving as a developer accommodating chamber that accommodates developer and a second inner space serving as a developing chamber in communication with the developer accommodating chamber. The agitator is disposed in the developer accommodating chamber and has a shaft portion that is rotatably supported in the casing. The agitator is rotatable about the shaft portion. The developing roller is disposed in the developing chamber and is rotatably supported in the casing. The casing is formed with a developer opening located at a position closer to the developing chamber than the shaft portion is.

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Ogaki, Japan

Takahiro Nishimoto