Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takuya Yasumitsu

Hiroyuki Maeda

Iwao Kawamura

Kazunori Namai

Masafumi Takimoto

Kunitoshi Hayashi

A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a first guide to guide a conveyed sheet and a second guide to face the first guide and to form a sheet conveyance path together with the first guide, with the second guide being pivotable between a first position in which the sheet conveyance path is formed and a second position in which the sheet conveyance path is opened. A cover is movable between a closed position in which it covers the second guide and an open position in which the second guide is manipulatable, and an abutting portion is provided on the cover to abut the second guide. In a state where the second guide is held at the second position by the holding portion and the cover moves to the closed position from the open position, the abutting portion abuts the second guide to release the second guide held by the holding portion.

Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming system

A sheet conveyance guide includes a door provided to be pivotable between an open state and a close state and permitting access to an operation portion, a releasing portion provided on the door, configured to abut with the operation portion on a guide plate positioned at a second position along with movement of the door and release a guide plate held by a holding portion, and a pressing portion provided on the door and configured to press the operation portion such that the guide plate is positioned at the first position. In addition, a retraction portion is provided on the door and configured to retract the pressing portion from a moving locus of the operation portion in moving the guide plate from the first position to the second position by abutting with the operation portion of the guide plate moving from the second position to the first position and swinging.

There is disclosed an ink jet cartridge comprising an ink jet head including a plurality of arranged discharge ports for discharging ink, an element substrate provided with a plurality of energy generating elements for generating an energy to discharge the ink, and a base plate for supporting the element substrate; an ink tank holding member for holding an ink tank for containing the ink; and a head holding member for connecting the ink tank holding member to the ink jet head, and by holding the ink jet head by the ink tank holding member and the head holding member, the ink jet head is elastically supported in a head sandwiching direction, so that the positioning of the ink jet head can easily be performed with respect to the ink jet cartridge with a high precision, the high quality recording is possible, and the ink jet apparatus using this cartridge can be realized with a simple construction and at a low cost.

Ink jet cartridge, ink jet apparatus, and manufacture method of ink jet cartridge

Ink cartridge package for printer

End piece for ink cartridge for ink jet printer

Side panel for ink cartridge for ink jet printer

Ink cartridge for ink jet printer

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takuya Yasumitsu