Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomohiro Aoki

Yasushi Murayama

Takashi Uchida

Masaharu Nemura

Tatsuo Mitomi

Masatoshi Ikkatai

Tohru Kobayashi

Yasuyuki Takanaka

Kunihiko Matsuzawa

Yoshihiko Hirose

Kazuyoshi Chiku

Kazunori Kanekura

Hiroyuki Miyake

Toshirou Kasamura

Hidetoshi Tanaka

Kiyokazu Namekata

Akio Suzuki

Masahiro Nishio

Yasushi Miura

Toshio Honma

Kazuyoshi Takahashi

Yoshihiro Takada

Mitsuru Kurata

Tokihide Ebata

Keiju Kuboki

Yutaka Udagawa

Katsushi Furuichi

Eiichi Takagi

Nobuhiko Ogata

Kazuo Kawakubo

Hideyuki Tanaami

Yoshio Komaki

Yutaka Ban

Yukio Sato

Nobuhiro Hayashi

Masaharu Ohkubo

Tadayuki Kitajima

Osamu Hoshino

Ken Miyagi

Yoshikuni Tohyama

Yoichi Kubota

Takaji Yonemori

Yoshihiko Takeoka

Yashikuni Tohyama

A cleaning apparatus and method for removing a recording ink from a surface of a recording material conveying belt of a recording apparatus. The method includes the steps of contacting a blade member to a surface of the recording material conveying belt and contacting an ink absorber member to a surface of the recording material conveying belt, thus removing from the belt surface an improper discharge of recording ink.

Apparatus and method for cleaning a recording material conveying member using blade member and ink absorber

An ink jet recording apparatus for recording an image by discharging ink from an ink jet recording head to a recording medium at a recording position, the apparatus being capable of recording the image on different recording media having different absorptivities. The apparatus conveys the recording medium along a conveyance route from the recording position, and heats the recording medium at a predetermined position in the conveyance route of the recording medium. In a first operational mode, an operative condition corresponds to a recording medium with a first absorptivity. In a second operational mode, a non-operative condition corresponds to a recording medium with a second absorptivity higher than the first absorptivity. In the invention, the ink jet recording apparatus enters the first operational mode after an electrical power is applied thereto.

Ink jet recording apparatus having a heat fixing mechanism

An ink jet textile printing method forms an image on cloths in an image forming operation by repeating a step of applying ink on the cloths from an ink discharge port of a recording head, the recording head relatively main-scanning to form the image in a main scan direction, and a step of relatively conveying the cloths in a sub-scan direction. The method includes the steps of forming the image on the cloths by applying ink on the cloths from the recording head based on image data. The method further includes the step of temporarily stopping the image forming operation in accordance with an indication to effect a temporary halt of the image forming operation. When the temporary halt is indicated while the recording head performs a main scan in the image forming operation, the image forming operation by the main scan is completed, and then the temporary halt of the image forming operation is effected by moving the recording head to a standby position. The method still further includes the step of releasing the temporary halt of the image forming operation and restarting the image forming operation in accordance with an indication for releasing the temporary halt of the image forming operation. When the release of the temporary halt is indicated, ink is discharged from the ink discharge port and then the image forming operation is restarted.

Textile ink jet recording method with temporary halt function

An ink jet textile printing apparatus for performing printing by reading an original image created by a designer, converting the original image into original data represented by an electric signal, retrieving the original data for processing to be output as image data, and recording data on cloth based on the image data. The ink jet textile printing apparatus has a first ink jet recording head provided upstream of a recording position, and a second ink jet recording head provided downstream thereof, and is provided with a drying unit located between the recording heads, whereby high-quality recorded images with less bleeding can be obtained by recording on a recording area again with the second ink jet recording head after drying the recording area on the cloth recorded by the first ink jet recording head with the drying unit.

Ink jet recording method and apparatus and recorded matter

A recording apparatus builds an image at high quality without occurrence of malfunctions attributable to raised/recessed spots on the surface of a conveyance belt and insufficient dimensioning for the width of the conveyance belt, while preventing the interior of the recording apparatus from being contaminated with erroneously ejected ink. The recording apparatus includes a conveyance belt for conveying a recording sheet below four kinds of recording heads, and the conveyance belt has a joint line along which the opposite ends of a band-shaped material are joined to each other. In addition, the conveyance belt has a band-shaped colored portion which is located remote from the joint line by a predetermined distance. The colored portion is detected by an optical sensor, and a control unit controls the driving of the conveyance belt in response to a signal derived from the detection of the optical sensor.

Ink jet printing apparatus with print medium conveyance belt

Image recording apparatus characterized by being equipped with the carriers to carry recording sheet, recording head, carrier guides which is so arranged as placing the carriers in between the guides and the recording heads and pushing members provided in between the recording heads and the carrier guides, the carrier guides being rotatively supported.

Image recording apparatus

An image recording apparatus is equipped with a conveying belt member for carrying a sheet member, a recording head holding member for holding a head for recording on the sheet member, and guide members for supporting and guiding the conveying belt member. The first guide member is provided upstream of the recording head holding member, the second guide is provided downstream of the first guide, and the third guide is provided between the first and second guides. The third guide member displaces the conveying belt member toward the recording head holding member.

Recording medium conveying mechanism for image recording apparatus

A cleaning method for removing a recording ink from a surface of a recording material conveying belt of a recording apparatus. The method includes the steps of detecting a recording material jam; press contacting a cleaning member to a surface of the recording material conveying belt in response to the detected jam, thus removing from the belt surface an improper discharge of recording ink; and separating the cleaning member from the surface of the conveying belt after cleaning for a period of time. The period of time is determined based upon an amount of the recording ink discharged onto the conveying belt surface.

Cleaning method for cleaning a recording material conveying member after

An ink jet recording apparatus includes a fixing unit which heats a recording medium at a location in a conveyance route following recording to fix the recorded image. The fixing unit has a first heating member which heats a recording surface of a recording medium, a second heating member which heats a reverse surface of the recording medium, and a fan which blows air from the first heating member location in the conveyance route. A timer delays turning on the fan after energization of the first heating member.

The present invention provides an ink jet recording apparatus comprising a conveying means for a recording medium in a substantially horizontal direction, a head holding means for holding a plurality of ink jet heads in such a manner that the ink jet heads discharge ink vertically downward toward the recording medium conveyed by the conveying means in the substantially horizontal direction, a vertical shifting means for shifting the head holding means in a substantially vertical direction, a head recovery means for recovering and preventing the non-discharge of ink from the plurality of ink jet heads, in a condition opposed to the plurality of ink jet heads, and a horizontal shifting means for shifting the head recovery means in the substantially horizontal direction into a spatial area provided above the recording medium by lifting the head holding means in the substantially vertical direction by means of the vertical shifting means, so that the head recovery means is opposed relation to the plurality of ink jet heads. The head recovery means is provided with a waste ink opening for exhausting waste ink discharged from the ink jet head to the head recovery means in a recovery operation. The apparatus also includes incline means for inclining the head recovery means. When the head recovery means is retracted from the ink jet head, the head recovery means is inclined so that the side thereof having the waste ink opening is lower than the opposite side.

Ink jet recording apparatus with movable recovery assembly

A belt driving apparatus for carrying material to be recorded to a plurality of image recording units. In the belt driving apparatus, the distance of movement of material to be recorded corresponding to one rotation of the belt driving roller has been set to n (an integer)-times (where n=2, 3, 4 . . . ) as long as a distance between each image recording unit. A distance between one image recording unit and another recording unit is equal to or an integral fraction of .pi.(D+2 t), wherein D is the diameter of a drive roller driving the belt and t is the thickness of the belt.

Belt driving apparatus and image recording apparatus using the same

An ink jet recording apparatus for recording information by ejecting ink fluid onto a recording medium has a recording head, a head drive part, a capping unit, a first moving unit, an ink receiver and a second moving unit. The recording head having an orifice ejects an ink fluid from the orifice. The head drive part drives the recording head to eject an ink fluid. The capping part covers up the orifice of the recording head, the part being installed so as to be able to move relative to the recording head. The first moving unit moves the capping unit and the recording head relative to each other. The ink receiver receives an ink fluid ejected from the recording head. The second moving unit moves the ink receiver and the recording head relative to each other and enables this movement independent of the movement established by the first moving unit.

Ink jet recording apparatus

Disclosed is a recording apparatus that includes a conveying device for conveying a recording sheet in a conveying direction, a recording device confronting the conveying device for recording an image on the sheet being conveyed and a supporting device for shiftably supporting at least one of the conveying device and the recording device for movement between a recording position where the conveying device and the recording device are in parallel contact with the recording sheet therebetween and a non-recording or separated position where the conveying device is separated from the recording device. In one embodiment, the recording device and the conveying device are separated in parallel in the non-recording position and the supporting device causes the at least one of the conveying device and the recording device to be non-parallel during movement from the non-recording position to the recording position. In another embodiment, during movement of the conveying device from the separated position to the recording position, the supporting device first causes a first end of the conveying device to obliquely shift towards the recording device and thereafter, causes a second end of the conveying device to shift toward the recording device.

Recording apparatus with shiftable conveying unit

A developer supply device for supplying an image forming apparatus with a developer includes a developer accomodating container having an opening for supplying the developer, and a member for opening and closing the opening of the container. The developer accomodating container is slid to be positioned at a predetermined position. The direction of movement of the openable and closable member to open the opening coincides with the direction of the sliding movement for being positioned. A force needed for the movement of the openable and closable member is arranged to be larger than a force needed for the sliding movement of the developer accomodating container. The device also includes a regulating member, which prevents the developer accomodating container from being moved from the predetermined position when the openable and closable member is opened. In order to prevent mismounting of an improper developer accomodating container, engagement between the developer accomodating container and a mounting portion for the container is arranged to be different in accordance with the kind of the developer.

Detachable developer supply container having means for selectively

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Tomohiro Aoki