Seiko Epson Corporation

Toru Nakazawa

Shoma Kudo

Katsutomo Tsukahara

Yasunori Koike

Takashi Koase

Nobutaka Suzuki

Keigo Iizawa

Tetsuya Takamoto

Satoshi Tamai

Yutaka Kobayashi

Toshiya Okada

Masayuki Kanazawa

Naofumi Mimura

Hidetoshi Kodama

Makoto Kobayashi

Kenji Yanagisawa

Hiroto Miyauchi

Yoshihiro Tatara

Wataru Suzuki

Hirokazu Yamano

Ichiro Yoshioka

Hideki Kato

Hiroyuki Yoda

Yusuke Yamashita

Tetsuji Takeishi

Mami Hashizume

Daisuke Imai

Takashi Karasawa

Tsuyoshi Miyawaki

A supply device configured to supply a medium to a processing unit configured to perform processing on the medium, the supply device including an accommodating unit configured to accommodate a plurality of the media in a state of being stacked therein and a vibration imparting unit configured to contact ends of the plurality of media accommodated in the accommodating unit to impart vibration to the medium.

Supply device, processing device, control method and program

A liquid jet apparatus comprises a liquid jet head, a carriage carrying the liquid jet head in a side-to-side direction, a liquid flow channel, and a liquid container in fluid communication with the liquid jet head through the liquid flow channel. The liquid container includes a liquid containing chamber arranged along a front/back direction orthogonal to the side-to-side direction; a liquid outlet port, from which the liquid contained in the liquid containing chamber flows to the liquid flow channel; and a liquid inlet port, through which the liquid is injected into the liquid containing chamber. The liquid inlet port has an end surface that does not face in a vertical direction relative to a normal posture of the apparatus.

Liquid container, liquid consuming apparatus, liquid supply system and liquid container unit

A liquid container includes an ink chamber containing an ink to be supplied via a tube to a liquid ejecting head consuming the ink; an outlet port from which the ink contained in the ink chamber flows to the tube side; an injection port through which the ink can be injected into the ink chamber; and an air intake port taking air into the ink chamber from a further vertically upper position than a liquid level of the ink when the ink is contained in the ink chamber. If the ink equal to 5% of containing capacity containable in the ink chamber flows from the outlet port, the liquid container has an area where a fluctuation range of the liquid level of the ink inside the ink chamber becomes 5% or less of the cubic root of the containing capacity.

Provided is an image forming system including a case that accommodates an ink accommodating body which accommodates ink, a connection tube through which ink within the ink accommodating body can be supplied, and an image forming apparatus that has an ink jet printer that can eject the ink supplied through the connection tube and a reading apparatus which a reading surface on which an original copy G that is arranged on the ink jet printer is read. Then, the case is arranged beside the image forming apparatus in such a manner that an upper surface of the case is matched with the reading surface in terms of height.

Image forming system

Liquid conatiner, liquid consuming apparatus, liquid supply system and liquid container unit

Printer

A prop is extending from the printer unit upwards. A rear end portion of an upper casing is coupled with an upper portion of the prop pivotably in a vertical direction. A transparent platen is provided on a top face of the upper casing. An image capturer is provided in the upper casing and operable to capture an image on an original disposed on the platen and to output image data. A projection is provided on a bottom face of the upper casing and is extending in a front-rear direction of the upper casing. The projection has a rear end face adapted to be supported by the prop when the upper casing is placed in a first position causing the platen to extend horizontally. The rear end face extends obliquely in a forward-downward direction.

Image forming apparatus having a projection provided on a bottom face of an upper casing

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Matsumoto, Japan

Toru Nakazawa