Image forming apparatus and ink container

    公开(公告)号:US10946667B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-16

    申请号:US16673051

    申请日:2019-11-04

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a container guide and a latch mechanism. The latch mechanism includes a pin and a pin supporting member. The latch mechanism permits an attachment of the ink container to the container guide when the ink container is pushed in an attachment direction and the pin is stored in a first storage part and permits a detachment of the ink container from the container guide when the ink container attached to the container guide is pushed in the attachment direction and the pin is removed from the first storage part. The pin supporting member includes a boss. The boss is stored in a second storage part when the pin is stored in the first storage part, and the boss is removed from the second storage part when the pin is removed from the first storage part.

    Inkjet recording apparatus
    13.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10195859B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-05

    申请号:US15826164

    申请日:2017-11-29

    Abstract: In an inkjet recording apparatus, a recording head has an ink ejection port through which ink is ejected, a cleaning liquid supplying portion has a cleaning liquid supply port through which cleaning liquid for cleaning an ink ejection surface having the ink ejection port, is supplied, and a cleaning member cleans the ink ejection surface by the cleaning liquid by moving while in contact with the ink ejection surface. The cleaning liquid supplying portion includes a main body portion and a protruding portion. The main body portion is disposed on an upstream side of the recording head in a moving direction of the cleaning member. The protruding portion protrudes from the main body portion toward a downstream in the moving direction, and covers, from below, lower ends of side surfaces of the recording head and the main body portion that face each other in the moving direction.

    Inkjet image forming apparatus and ink container
    14.
    发明授权
    Inkjet image forming apparatus and ink container 有权
    喷墨成像设备和墨水容器

    公开(公告)号:US08919925B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-12-30

    申请号:US13928177

    申请日:2013-06-26

    CPC classification number: B41J2/17523 B41J2/17513 B41J2/1752 B41J2/17553

    Abstract: An inkjet image forming apparatus includes an ink container and a container installed part. The ink container is configured to store an ink. To the container installed part, the ink container is attached/detached along an installing direction. The ink container includes a container case and a shutter. The container case has a lower face to which a supplying port discharging the ink is located. The shutter is located to leave a space from the supplying port and switchable between a closing state covering a bottom of the supplying port and an opening state exposing the supplying port.

    Abstract translation: 喷墨图像形成装置包括墨水容器和容器安装部。 墨水容器被配置为存储墨水。 在容器安装部分中,沿着安装方向安装/拆卸墨水容器。 墨水容器包括容器壳体和快门。 容器壳体具有排出墨水的供给口所在的下表面。 快门位于从供应口留出空间,并可在覆盖供应口底部的关闭状态与露出供应口的打开状态之间切换。

    Liquid container, liquid supply device and liquid discharge apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11654686B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-23

    申请号:US17375107

    申请日:2021-07-14

    CPC classification number: B41J2/17503 B41J2/135

    Abstract: A liquid container includes a pack main body and a covering body. The covering body covers a part of the pack main body and is more hardly deformable than the pack main body. The pack main body includes a trunk part, a pair of sealing parts and a spout. The trunk part is formed into a rectangular cylindrical shape in a state where the ink is stored. The pair of sealing parts seal both ends of the trunk part. At least one of the sealing parts is formed into a gabled roof shape having a pair of flat portions facing each other in the thickness direction and a pair of gable portions facing each other in a width direction. The covering body includes a pair of covering flat plates covering at least a part of the pair of flat portions.

    Inkjet recording apparatus
    16.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11034156B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-15

    申请号:US16582670

    申请日:2019-09-25

    Abstract: In an inkjet recording apparatus, ink reserved in a reserve portion flows into a valve chamber through an inflow port. A first outflow port and a second outflow port are capable of flowing the ink from the valve chamber. The first valve element is preliminarily located at an opening position separated from the first outflow port in an inward direction directed from the first outflow port toward inside of the valve chamber. The first valve element is displaced from the opening position to the first outflow port and closes the first outflow port when the valve chamber is filled with the ink. The second valve element is preliminarily located at a closing position closing the second outflow port, and opens the second outflow port when the valve chamber is filled with the ink. Subsequently, a recording head becomes ready to record an image on a recording object with the ink.

    Supply liquid tank unit and inkjet recording apparatus therewith

    公开(公告)号:US10792929B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-06

    申请号:US16026956

    申请日:2018-07-03

    Abstract: A supply liquid tank unit of the present disclosure includes a supply liquid tank and a detection sensor. The detection sensor detects a liquid surface of ink in the supply liquid tank. The supply liquid tank is provided with an inner space having a storage chamber which stores the ink and an atmosphere release port for making an inner pressure in the inner space equal to an atmospheric pressure. The detection sensor has a float which moves vertically in accordance with an amount of the ink in the storage chamber and a sensor main body which detects a liquid surface of the ink when the float moves vertically. An inner side surface of the storage chamber is disposed along and near an outer circumferential surface of the float.

    Toner case and image forming apparatus including the same

    公开(公告)号:US09996030B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-12

    申请号:US15498562

    申请日:2017-04-27

    Abstract: A toner case includes a case main body, a shutter mount and a shutter. The case main body contains a toner to be replenished to a development device provided in an apparatus main body and is detachably attached to the apparatus main body. The case main body has an opened face on which a discharge port is arranged and the discharge port corresponds to a replenishment port of the development device in a state where the case main body is attached to the apparatus main body. The shutter mount is provided to form a gap between the opened face of the case main body and the shutter mount. The shutter is provided between the opened face of the case main body and the shutter mount to be slidable to open and close the discharge port. The shutter mount includes a film which comes into sliding contact with the shutter.

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