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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2022
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Fumio Nakazawa, Okazaki, JP;
Yoshinori Osakabe, Seto, JP;
Taichi Shirono, Nagoya, JP;
Sosuke Kuroyanagi, Nishio, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head having a nozzle; a tank; a gas channel; a valve unit; a memory; and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: making of the valve unit to be in an open state, under a condition that a count value indicating an amount of a liquid discharged from the nozzle has reached an opening threshold value ΔV. The opening threshold value ΔV is represented by: ΔV≤(Vtmax−Vi)×Pm/(P−Pm). Note that Vtmax represents a volume of the tank, Vi represents the maximum amount of the liquid storable in the tank, P represents an atmospheric pressure, and Pm represents a meniscus-withstanding pressure of the liquid formed in the nozzle.