Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tetsuo Suzuki

Haruyuki Yanagi

Takashi Nojima

Soichi Hiramatsu

Hiroyuki Kinoshita

Hiroyuki Saito

Masahiro Taniguro

Satoshi Saikawa

Hideaki Kawakami

Koichi Tanno

Makoto Takemura

Shigeru Yoshimura

Masaya Shinmachi

Makoto Kawarama

Tan At Ming

Hiroyuki Inoue

Junichi Asano

Katsunori Hatanaka

Kunitaka Ozawa

Tetsuzo Mori

Tadashi Shiina

Shinya Matsui

Ryuichi Ebinuma

Masakazu Ozawa

Kiichiro Takahashi

Kenichiro Hashimoto

Hideki Yamaguchi

Takao Aichi

Shinnosuke Taniishi

Tamaki Hashimoto

Osamu Iwasaki

Naoji Otsuka

Kentaro Yano

Toshihiko Ujita

Keiichi Murai

Haruyuki Matsumoto

Tsutomu Kawai

Kazuhiro Nakata

Yukio Tajima

Kazuko Kirihara

Shoji Kikuchi

Masahiro Tose

Masa K Ozawa

Hitoshi Nishikori

Tetsuya Ishikawa

Atsushi Arai

Daigoro Kanematsu

Koji Terasawa

Hitoshi Nakamura

Akira Kida

Kenji Kuroishi

Katsuyuki Yokoi

Takehiko Kiyohara

Tetsuhiro Nitta

Makoto Kashimura

Akira Miyakawa

Seiji Ogasawara

Kenji Kawazoe

Susumu Kohketsu

Yoshihiro Sekine

Shigemitsu Tazaki

Takeji Niikura

Yoji Ara

Shingo Kuboki

Masayoshi Miki

Masashi Ohnishi

Toshiharu Hayashida

Seiji Honda

Hirota Takahashi

Akiyoshi Osugi

Tomohiro Murayama

Eiji Mizote

Tomomi Nakagawa

Satoshi Sumida

Yoshihisa Yamaki

Yumi Sato

Katsuko Ozawa

Kazuhisa Gotoh

Momoyo Tokuda

Toru Kawatani

Kentaro Ohnuma

Hiroko Iida

Ryuichi Ebinuna

Eiji Nakahashi

A developer supply device includes a body, a developer supply unit drawably insertable into the body, and a developer container removably installable in the developer supply unit. The developer container contains a developer and includes a developer discharge port. The developer supply unit includes a lever that closes the developer discharge port when the lever has moved to a first position and opens the developer discharge port when the lever has moved to a second position, and a lock that engages an engagement portion of the lever in conjunction with an operation of drawing the developer supply unit from the body to restrict the lever from moving from the first position to the second position and disengage from the engagement portion in conjunction with an operation of inserting the developer supply unit into the body to allow the lever to move from the first position to the second position.

Developer supply device and image forming apparatus incorporating same

An information processing device includes a processing part, a controlling part, and a providing part. The processing part executes a process. The controlling part controls the processing part to execute the process when the process corresponding to an operation on an operating image is requested from a display device that temporarily stores and displays an externally provided operating image. The providing part provides a first operating image to be displayed by the display device to the display device, and provides, to the display device in advance, a second operating image displayed when the first operating image is operated, within a range not exceeding a quantity predetermined as an upper limit.

Information processing device, method, system, display device, and non-transitory computer readable medium for displaying operating images in an efficient manner

An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit that performs a process, and a notification unit that is adapted to notify a display of a status of the process for the display to display the status, performs first communication from the information processing apparatus to the display if the status as a notification target occurs, and notifies the display of the occurring status by second communication to transmit a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) response in response to an HTTP request from the display to which the first communication has been performed.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including: a first control section that, when execution of printing at a printing device connected via a communications section is instructed, performs control to display at a display section a print settings screen for making settings relating to the printing; a calculation section that calculates an estimated value of power consumption that the printing device will consume if the printing is executed on the basis of the settings relating to printing; and a second control section that, when a pre-specified operation is performed at the print settings screen, performs control to display the estimated value of power consumption and display at the display section an energy saving settings screen for making, of the settings relating to printing, settings relating to energy saving.

Apparatus and method for controlling power consumption using printer settings

In a serial recording apparatus having three recording modes, i.e., normal, high-quality, and high-speed recording mode, sheet feed control satisfying requirements in these modes is performed. More specifically, high-speed sheet feed control is performed in the normal or high-speed recording mode, and low-noise sheet feed control with improved precision is performed in the high-quality recording mode although the speed is low.

Recording apparatus

A recording apparatus has an automatic feed device for feeding recording media one by one, and a pair of carriage rollers for carrying a recording medium P thus fed, to a recording section. The recording apparatus is constructed to be used in a plurality of recording modes. In the recording apparatus, a registration method of the recording medium P to the recording section is selected depending upon a recording mode selected. The apparatus of this structure solved the prior-art problems that a long time was necessary from sheet feed to recording start in the case of registration of the recording medium P by the nip between the carriage roller pair, so as to be a bottleneck in increase of recording speed and that disturbance of the image became prominent due to registration deviation in the case of registration at the side of the recording medium.

An ink cartridge, removably mountable on a fixed mounting portion of an ink jet recording apparatus for supplying discharged ink to a recording head carried on a movable carriage of the apparatus, comprises a flag member mounted for protrusion and retraction, an arrangement for protruding the flag member toward a path along which the carriage is moved when the ink cartridge is mounted on the mounting portion, and a photosensor mounted on the carriage in a position where it will be shielded from light by the protruding flag member.

Ink jet recording apparatus and ink cartridge for the apparatus

An ink jet recording method forms an ink jet image on a recording medium by serially moving an ink jet recording head having a plurality of ink discharge ports arranged in an array along a conveyance direction of the recording medium. The method includes the step of providing a platen having a planar section upstream in the conveyance direction and a slant section slanted downstream in the conveyance direction and in a direction parting from the ink discharge ports, opposed to an array of the ink discharge ports when the ink jet recording head serially moves. The method further includes the step of forming an ink jet image on the recording medium by ink discharge from the ink discharge ports when the ink jet recording head moves at least three times across a same area of the recording medium, a reverse side of which is supported by the platen.

Ink jet recording apparatus

An ink jet printing member mounted on a scanning carriage to discharge ink for recording while traveling with the carriage includes an extrusion that engages with a hook of the scanning carriage when this member is mounted on the carriage. This extrusion is arranged to dually function to identify the kind of the mounted ink jet printing member in accordance with the location of the extrusion and to secure the printing member on the carriage. With this arrangement, the structure is simplified to reduce the manufacturing costs significantly, while preventing the user from erroneously mounting an ink jet recording member on the carriage for an intended recording.

Ink jet printing system using printers with interchangeable printing units

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.

In the sheet conveying apparatus, convey force of a convey device is changed according to the load applied to a recording sheet in order to constantly convey the recording sheet reliably. A rotary sheet discharge body has convex and concave portions in order to reliably discharge the recording sheet regardless of resistance applied to the recording sheet. Highly frictional material is provided only around the end portions of the rotary sheet discharge body in order to reduce the manufacturing cost and improve the facility of assembly.

Recording apparatus having a sheet conveying force adjustment system

A container for safekeeping an ink jet cartridge is provided with the main body of a container for storing an ink jet cartridge having a recording head unit, and an ink tank unit containing ink to be supplied to the recording head unit, a lid element for covering the inlet and outlet of the main body of the container for storing or removing the ink jet cartridge, an elastic cap member provided in the main body of the container for covering the recording head unit. This container for safekeeping an ink jet cartridge comprises a rib arranged on the inner wall surface of the lid element for exerting pressure on the recording head unit of the ink jet cartridge to press it to the elastic cap member; and a recess arranged on the inner wall surface of the main body of the container in a position corresponding to the location where the elastic cap member is arranged. In this way, it is possible to cap the recording head appropriately in the container to provide a highly reliable safekeeping of the ink jet cartridge, and at the same time, to store and safekeep the ink jet cartridges for monochromatic use and color uses exhangeably.

Container for safekeeping ink cartridge

A recording apparatus capable of making the image formation without reduction in recording quality is embodied. The recording apparatus comprises holding means for detachably holding a recording head for forming image on the recording medium, and positioning means for positioning the recording head at a predetermined position of the holding means in mounting the recording head on said holding means, characterized in that the positioning means has a first fitting meand for restraining the recording head in a first direction, and a second fitting means for restraining the recording head in a second direction, wherein restraining means is provided for fitting the second fitting means prior to the first fitting means in mounting the recording head on the holding means.

Recording apparatus with an ink tank useful for having said recording

A wiping mechanism for wiping an ink ejection side surface of an ink jet head for effecting recording by ejection of ink through ejection outlets includes a wiper for wiping the ejection side surface; and control mechanism for controlling operation of the wiper member in accordance with arrival of a carriage carrying the ink jet head and moving in a predetermined direction.

Wiping mechanism for ink jet recording head and recording apparatus

This invention provides a discharged ink treating method for destroying or dispersing ink deposit created on a discharged ink receiving portion side, by the use of a mechanically operated member. A method of treating discharged ink from an ink using portion using liquid ink has the step of destroying or dispersing ink deposit created in a discharged ink path along which the discharged ink passes from the ink using portion to a discharged ink receiving portion and on the discharged ink receiving portion side, by the use of a mechanically operated member.

Discharged ink treating method, recovery device for carrying out the

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