Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Brother Kogyo Kaubshiki Kaisha

Yoshinori Osakabe

Taichi Shirono

Masahiro Hayashi

Tomohisa Higuchi

Masako Kawagoe

Akinari Ishibe

Hiroaki Takahashi

Fumio Nakazawa

Katsuro Miura

Takashi Ohama

Hiromi Tanaka

Sosuke Kuroyanagi

Muneaki Takahata

Suguru Tomoguchi

Satoshi Miyase

Tsuyoshi Kuwayama

Takahiro Ikeno

Hisaki Sakurai

Akinori Igarashi

Akira Shinoda

Akihiro Sakakibara

Jun Morikawa

Satoru Nakakita

Haruka Azechi

Yasuo Ono

Yuto Chiba

Tatsuya Shindo

Seiji Shimizu

Toshitaka Iwago

Tatsuya Sato

Takayuki Akimatsu

Takuya Naniwa

Yukio Shiohara

Akihito Kobayashi

Hiroyuki Ishikawa

Kenichi Hirata

Tomohiro Wada

Masayoshi Oosaki

Takashi Maeda

Yuji Koga

Kenta Horade

Naoya Okazaki

Hiroshi Taira

Tetsuya Kato

Mana Honoki

Yuma Tanabe

Satoru Oki

Masatake Sato

Masataka Kamiya

Hirofumi Oguri

Takuya Tsuji

Takaaki Mukai

Takashi Kitagawa

Yasunari Yoshida

Akihito Ono

Masayuki Takata

Shingo Ito

Yuta Uchino

Jiro Yamamoto

Hirotaka Aoki

Akira Iriguchi

Toshio Sugiura

Yasuo Nishikawa

Kazuhito Ishida

Isao Kubo

Yoichi Horaguchi

Ryoichi Matsushima

Hideo Ohira

Atsushi Yokochi

Hideaki Nagasaka

Tsuyoshi Suganuma

Masahiro Hoga

Takashi Yoshikawa

Hiroshi Uchigashima

Nanami Ashida

Daisuke Matsumoto

Ayako Sakai

A liquid supplying device includes a tank a tank and a cartridge. The cartridge includes a first storage chamber. The cartridge is formed with a communicating opening in communication with the first storage chamber. The tank has a second storage chamber and a joint having a hollow cylindrical shape. In an attachment state where the communicating opening of the cartridge is connected to the joint, the first storage chamber has a portion positioned above the joint and the second storage chamber is positioned below the joint. At least in the first end portion, the liquid passage has a rectangular shape in a cross section taken along a plane perpendicular to an extending direction of the liquid passage.

Liquid supplying device having tank and cartridge attachable thereto

A liquid supplying apparatus having a tank with a hole, a reservoir chamber to store a portion of liquid in the tank, and a flow path to store another portion of the liquid in the tank, is provided. The flow path connects the reservoir chamber and the hole. The flow path has a first funnel section to reduce a cross-sectional area of a part of the flow path. The first funnel section is located at a position equal to or higher than a surface of a predetermined maximum amount of the liquid storable in the tank in a usable posture. The first funnel section creates a meniscus with the liquid stored in the tank in an X1-rotated posture, in which the tank is rotated about a first axis by a first angle from the usable posture.

Liquid supplying apparatus

An ink tank having an ink tank body, a first electrode member, and a second electrode member, is provided. The ink tank body includes an ink inlet, an ink reservoir chamber, an ink supplying section, a first restrictive side wall, a second restrictive side wall, a leaked-ink flow path, a first surface, a second surface, a connecting surface connecting the first surface and the second surface, and a restrictive section. The leaked-ink flow path is formed at least of a part of the first surface, a part of the connecting surface, a part of the second surface, the first restrictive side wall, and the second restrictive side wall. The restrictive section is arranged on the second surface between the first restrictive side wall and the second restrictive side wall. At least a part of the restrictive section is located between the connecting surface and the first electrode member.

Ink tank and inkjet printer

A monochrome inkjet printer used only for monochrome recording includes a first ink reservoir configured to accommodate dye ink, a first recording head communicating with the first ink reservoir and configured to record an image using the dye ink, a second ink reservoir configured to accommodate pigment ink, and a second recording head communicating with the second ink reservoir and configured to record an image using the pigment ink. At least one of the first ink reservoir and the second ink reservoir includes an ink injection port compatible with an ink bottle.

Monochrome inkjet printer

A liquid discharging apparatus, having a head, a reservoir section including a liquid reservoir chamber and an atmosphere communication path, a liquid flow path connecting the head with the liquid reservoir chamber, a switching assembly to switch states of the atmosphere communication path between a connecting state and a disconnecting state, and a controller, is provided. The controller is configured to control the switching assembly to switch the states of the atmosphere communication path from the connecting state to the disconnecting state; after switching the states of the atmosphere communication path, control the head to discharge the liquid; and after switching the states of the atmosphere communication path, and in response to a predetermined connection condition being satisfied, control the switching assembly to switch the states of the atmosphere communication path from the disconnecting state to the connecting state.

Liquid discharging apparatus

In a printer unit, ink is poured into a storage chamber from an inlet of a tank. The storage chamber communicates with an air chamber. An air tube connects the air chamber and the outside of the tank and is opened and closed by a valve. A cover is movable to a first position in which the inlet is covered and a second position in which the inlet is exposable via a third position being a position between the first position and the second position. A valve opening/closing mechanism opens a valve when the cover is located on a side closer to the first position than the third position, and closes the valve when the cover is located between the third position and the second position. When the cover moves from the third position to the first position, a cap fits over the inlet to seal the storage chamber.

Liquid consumption device

A liquid consumption device has a tank having an inner space partitioned by an outer wall. The tank has a first inner wall which extends from the outer wall on a one side in a first direction perpendicular to an up-down direction. Further, the first inner wall partitions the inner space into a first space and a second space, which communicate with each other through a first communication hole formed on the first inner wall. A third space, which is partitioned by the first inner wall and the outer wall, and is located below a lowermost position of a surface defining the first communication hole when the tank takes a first attitude is configured to store a particular amount of liquid, which is stored in a fourth space in a state where the tank takes the usage attitude, the fourth space being a part of the second space.

There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus including: a tank having a liquid storing chamber, an erected wall through which the liquid inside the liquid storage chamber is visible from outside of the tank, and an inlet which is formed to penetrate through the erected wall and via which the liquid is poured into the liquid storage chamber; a liquid consuming section which consumes the liquid stored in the liquid storing chamber; and a cover. A transmitting section and a checking section are formed in an upper surface, of the cover, under a condition that the cover is in the exposure position, the transmitting section configured to transmit information optically to a user of the liquid consuming apparatus and the checking section configured to prevent the liquid moving on a particular surface of the cover from arriving at the transmitting section.

Liquid consuming apparatus including liquid tank with rotatable cover

There is provided an inkjet recording device including a head, a support member, a storage portion, a valve, an actuator, and a controller. The head includes a nozzle and is configured to eject ink from the nozzle. The support member supports the head. The storage portion storing therein ink. The storage portion has a part positioned above the nozzle. The storage portion has an air communication opening allowing an interior of the storage portion to be communicated with an outside of the storage portion. The valve is movable between an opening position in which the valve opens the air communication opening and a closing position in which the valve closes the air communication opening. The actuator is configured to move the valve. The controller configured to control, while the head is ejecting ink from the nozzle toward a recording medium, the actuator to maintain the valve at the closing position.

Inkjet recording device maintaining valve at closing position to close air communication opening formed in ink storage portion during execution of printing process

A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a head having a nozzle which discharges liquid therefrom; a storing part, at least a part of the storing part being positioned above an opening of the nozzle, the liquid being stored in the storing part while forming a liquid surface; and an atmosphere communicating channel which communicates a gas layer of the storing part with outside of the storing part; and a valve unit which is switched between a communication state in which the valve unit communicates the gas layer of the storing part with the outside and a non-communication state in which the valve unit does not communicate the gas layer of the storing part with the outside. The valve unit is switched from the non-communication state to the communication state in a case that a power source is changed from a turned-on state to a turned-off state.

A liquid supplying system includes a tank, a first tubular portion, a second tubular portion, a sleeve portion, and a liquid bottle. The first and second tubular portions have inner ends positioned inside a storage chamber of the tank, and outer ends positioned outside of the storage chamber. The first and second tubular portions are positioned inside the sleeve portion. The sleeve portion includes a first screw portion and a first engagement portion. The liquid bottle includes an outer sleeve connectable to the sleeve portion. The sleeve portion includes a second screw portion threadingly engageable with the first screw portion, and a second engagement portion engageable with the first engagement portion. The first engagement portion can guide the second engagement portion to move in a direction parallel to a center axis of the sleeve portion during connection of the outer sleeve to the sleeve portion.

Liquid supplying system including tank and liquid bottle connectable to the tank

There is provided a tank including: a casing; a liquid chamber including first and second chambers; a communicating channel configured by first, second, and third communicating channels; a liquid inlet port; a first communicating port; a second communicating port; an atmosphere open port; a liquid outflow port; and a gas-liquid separating membrane provided in the third communicating channel and blocking flowing (distribution, circulation) of liquid in the third communicating channel. A first end of the second communicating channel is communicated with the second chamber, and a second end of the second communicating channel is communicated with an end of the first communicating channel. A first end of the third communicating channel is communicated with the second end of the second communicating channel, and a second end of the third communicating channel is communicated with the atmosphere open port.

Tank and liquid consuming apparatus including the same

There is provides liquid discharging apparatus including: head having nozzle; reservoir configured to store the liquid such that liquid surface is positioned higher than opening of the nozzle in a state that the reservoir stores the liquid of maximum storable amount; and atmosphere port connecting gas layer and outside of the reservoir. Inner diameter d of the nozzle and head difference h satisfy expression of ρhd/σ cos θ≤4/g, provided that p is specific weight of the liquid, σ is surface tension of the liquid, θ is contact angle of the liquid in the nozzle and g is gravitational acceleration, the head difference h being difference in height between meniscus in the opening of the nozzle and the liquid surface in the state that the reservoir stores the liquid of the maximum storable amount.

There is provided an ink-jet printer including: an ink tank including an ink inlet; a cap; and a cover configured to be movable with respect to the ink inlet between a closed position and an open position. The cover includes an inner surface configured to face the ink inlet under a condition that the cover is in the closed position, and a rib provided at the inner surface. The rib is configured to face a part of the cap, in which the cap is sealed the ink inlet under the condition that the cover is in the closed position and the rib is configured to abut against the part of the cap under a condition that the cap is not appropriately sealed the inlet when the cover moving from the open position to the closed position, thereby the cover being prevented from reaching the closed position.

Ink-jet printer

A printing device is provided with a print head having a plurality of nozzles configured to eject ink droplets therefrom, a supplier configured to supply ink contained in a container to the print head, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform obtaining ink information having correlation with a height of a liquid surface of the ink contained in the container, obtaining subject image data representing an image to be printed, generating print data based on the subject image data, and causing the print head to eject ink droplets based on the print data. The generating includes adjusting the print data in accordance with the ink information.

Printing device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium therefor

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Seto, Japan

Yoshinori Osakabe