Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tamaki Hashimoto

Tetsuo Suzuki

Takao Aichi

Hiroyuki Inoue

Makoto Takemura

Takashi Nojima

Koji Terasawa

Katsuyuki Yokoi

Shinya Matsui

Junichi Asano

Yoji Ara

Mikio Shiga

A recording apparatus for performing a recording operation on recording paper includes a recording head for performing the recording operation on the recording paper, a carriage which carries the recording head, and is movable along a convey path of the recording paper, a conveying unit for conveying the recording paper, a drive source, and a lock pawl which is arranged along a moving path of the carriage and can transmit a drive force from the drive source to the conveying unit in accordance with movement of the carriage.

Recording apparatus

Printhead carriage movement triggering system for sheet conveyance in a

In a recording apparatus, a recording operation is controlled by being connected to a host computer. The apparatus includes a sheet supporting unit for supporting a plurality of sheets, a feeding unit for feeding a sheet supported by the sheet supporting unit, a manual insertion port for manually inserting a sheet into the main body of the apparatus, a conveying unit for conveying the sheet fed from the sheet supporting unit or the sheet inserted from the manual insertion port, a recording unit for performing a recording operation on the sheet fed by the conveying unit, a sheet detection unit for detecting the sheet inserted from the manual insertion port, and a control unit for causing the apparatus to execute a recording operation in a manual insertion mode based on the detection of the manually inserted sheet by the sheet detection unit, and for temporarily providing an off-line state with respect to the host computer after the recording operation has been completed.

Recording apparatus with detection of manually inserted recording sheet

A recording apparatus effects a recording operation by scanning a recording medium in a predetermined direction with a recording head provided with discharge openings for recording liquid. A cap member is capable of covering a face with discharge openings of said recording head. A transmission member causes said cap member to cover said face with discharge openings in response to a motion setting said recording head to a predetermined position; and engaging members consisting of a protruding part are provided on one of said recording head and a carriage supporting said head. The protruding part engages a receiving part for said protruding part formed on the other of said recording head and said carriage, wherein said protruding part and said receiving part mutually engage at two points when said cap member covers said face with discharge openings.

Ink jet recording apparatus with recovery means

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Yokohama, Japan

Tamaki Hashimoto