公开(公告)号：US20210300043A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-30

申请号：US17218263

申请日：2021-03-31

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Fumio NAKAZAWA ,  Yoshinori OSAKABE ,  Taichi SHIRONO ,  Sosuke KUROYANGI

IPC: B41J2/165

Abstract: 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.

公开(公告)号：US20210023849A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-28

申请号：US17071371

申请日：2020-10-15

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Yoshinori OSAKABE

IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract: A liquid supply apparatus a tank and a cartridge attachable to the tank along an attachment direction crossing a vertical direction. The ink cartridge includes a first storing chamber configured to store liquid therein. The tank includes a second storing chamber configured to store liquid therein, a liquid channel and an air channel, which both communicate with the second storing chamber. When the cartridge is attached to the tank with the first storing chamber of the cartridge communicating with the liquid channel and the air channel, the first storing chamber has a portion located above the liquid channel and the air channel. The second storing portion has a first area located above a lower end of the first storing chamber of the cartridge in the vertical direction and a second area continuous with the first area and located below the first storing chamber of the cartridge in the vertical direction

公开(公告)号：US20200262210A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-20

申请号：US16843938

申请日：2020-04-09

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Masahiro HAYASHI ,  Taichi SHIRONO ,  Masako KAWAGOE ,  Yoshinori OSAKABE

IPC: B41J2/175 ,  B41J29/13 ,  B41J29/02

Abstract: A tank set includes: tanks arranged in a predetermined direction, each of the tanks being composed of a casing including: a liquid storage chamber defined by mutually opposing two surfaces and configured to store liquid; an inlet provided to inject the liquid into the liquid storage chamber; and a liquid outflow port through which the liquid flows out from the liquid storage chamber to a liquid-consuming unit. Each of the two surfaces extends in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction, and is at least partially composed of a film.

公开(公告)号：US20200238717A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-30

申请号：US16846615

申请日：2020-04-13

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Masahiro HAYASHI ,  Yoshinori OSAKABE ,  Akinari ISHIBE ,  Hiroaki TAKAHASHI

IPC: B41J2/175 ,  B41J29/13 ,  B41J29/02 ,  B41J13/076 ,  B41J13/03

Abstract: A liquid supplying device includes a tank; and a cartridge configured to be attached to the tank and having a first storage chamber configured to store liquid. The cartridge is formed with a communicating opening in communication with the first storage chamber. The tank has a second storage chamber configured to store the liquid, a liquid passage, a gas passage, a joint, an outer wall, an inner wall, an air communication portion, and a narrow-width portion. The liquid passage is in communication with the second storage chamber and has a first vertical portion. The gas passage has a second vertical portion. The first vertical portion, the second vertical portion, and the air communication portion are arranged in this order in the first direction and a direction away from the fifth end portion.

公开(公告)号：US20200070528A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-05

申请号：US16557040

申请日：2019-08-30

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Akinari ISHIBE ,  Yoshinori OSAKABE ,  Hiroaki TAKAHASHI ,  Tatsuya SHINDO

IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract: A liquid supply apparatus includes a tank and a cartridge attachable to and detachable from the tank along an attachment and detachment direction crossing a vertical direction. The cartridge includes a first storing chamber configured to store liquid therein. The tank includes a second storing chamber configured to store liquid therein, a liquid channel and an air channel that communicate with the second storing chamber, and an air communication port allowing the second storing chamber to communicate with an outside thereof. When the cartridge is attached to the tank with the first storing chamber of the cartridge communicating with the liquid channel and the air channel of the tank, the first storing chamber has a portion located above the liquid channel and the air channel in the vertical direction, and the tank is located below a secondary-lower surface and faces a secondary-front surface.

公开(公告)号：US20190240983A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-08

申请号：US16390453

申请日：2019-04-22

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Taichi SHIRONO ,  Masako KAWAGOE ,  Yoshinori OSAKABE ,  Masahiro HAYASHI

IPC: B41J2/175

CPC classification number: B41J2/17523 ,  B41J2/17509 ,  B41J2/17513 ,  B41J2/17553 ,  B41J2/17566 ,  B41J29/02 ,  B41J29/13 ,  B41J2002/17573

Abstract: There is provided a tank including a casing provided with first and second walls; first and second chambers; an atmosphere open port; a first communicating channel; a second communicating channel; a liquid inlet port; a first communicating port; a second communicating port; a liquid inflow port; and a liquid outflow port. Under a condition that the tank is in a posture in which the first wall constructs an upper portion of the tank and that the second wall constructs a lower portion of the tank in a vertical direction and that a maximum amount, of the liquid, storable in the tank in an usable posture of the tank, is stored in the first and second chambers, the first and second communicating ports are located at a position above a liquid surface of the maximum amount of the liquid.

公开(公告)号：US20190070858A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-07

申请号：US16126026

申请日：2018-09-10

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Yoshinori OSAKABE ,  Tomohiro WADA ,  Tomohisa HIGUCHI

IPC: B41J2/17 ,  B41J29/02 ,  B41J2/175 ,  B41J2/165 ,  B41J25/00

CPC classification number: B41J2/1721 ,  B41J2/16508 ,  B41J2/16523 ,  B41J2/16535 ,  B41J2/16538 ,  B41J2/175 ,  B41J2/17509 ,  B41J2/17513 ,  B41J2/1752 ,  B41J2/17553 ,  B41J25/001 ,  B41J29/02

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus, comprising: a carriage to move in a 1st direction; a recording head; an ink reservoir; an ink receiver; and a waste liquid reservoir configured to be connected to the ink receiver to let the ink move between the ink receiver and the waste liquid reservoir, wherein: the ink reservoir is disposed not to overlap with the carriage in a 2nd direction perpendicularly intersecting with the 1st direction and an up and down direction, and at least a part of the ink reservoir is disposed at a position outside of a moving range of the carriage in the 1st direction; and in the 1st direction, the waste liquid reservoir is disposed to overlap with the ink reservoir and is disposed at a position outside of the moving range of the carriage.

公开(公告)号：US20180370242A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-27

申请号：US16118751

申请日：2018-08-31

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Masahiro HAYASHI ,  Masako KAWAGOE ,  Taichi SHIRONO ,  Yoshinori OSAKABE ,  Seiji SHIMIZU

IPC: B41J2/175 ,  B41J29/13 ,  B41J29/02

Abstract: There is provided a tank including a liquid inlet port, an atmosphere open port, a liquid outflow port, a first liquid chamber having a first atmosphere communication channel, a second liquid chamber being in communication with the first liquid chamber and having a second atmosphere communication channel, and a liquid channel. The liquid inside the liquid channel is movable along with a liquid consumption of a liquid consuming device connected to the tank. With the tank in a usage posture, when the liquid is stored in the first liquid chamber and the second liquid chamber, the liquid level of the liquid stored in the first liquid chamber is formed independently from the liquid level of the liquid stored in the second liquid chamber.

公开(公告)号：US20180170062A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-21

申请号：US15845001

申请日：2017-12-18

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Yoshinori OSAKABE

IPC: B41J2/175 ,  B41J29/13

CPC classification number: B41J2/1754 ,  B41J2/175 ,  B41J2/17509 ,  B41J2/1752 ,  B41J2/17536 ,  B41J29/13

Abstract: There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus including: a liquid consuming section; a tank having a liquid storage chamber and an inlet port; a cap; and a casing having a cover movable with respect to the tank between a closed position and an open position. The cover has an inner surface and a projection projected from the inner surface toward the tank. The projection of the cover is provided with a pressing portion facing the outer surface of the cap at a predetermined spacing distance, under a condition that the liquid consuming apparatus is in a normal state in which the cover is in the closed position and that the cap is installed in the inlet port, and the pressing portion abuts firstly against the outer surface, under a condition that the cap is moved in the insertion direction for allowing the cap to be removed from the inlet port.

公开(公告)号：US20170282576A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-05

申请号：US15473852

申请日：2017-03-30

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Taichi SHIRONO ,  Masako KAWAGOE ,  Yoshinori OSAKABE ,  Masahiro HAYASHI

IPC: B41J2/175

CPC classification number: B41J2/17523 ,  B41J2/17509 ,  B41J2/17513 ,  B41J2/17553 ,  B41J2/17566 ,  B41J29/02 ,  B41J29/13 ,  B41J2002/17573

Abstract: There is provided a tank including a casing provided with first and second walls; first and second chambers; an atmosphere open port; a first communicating channel; a second communicating channel; a liquid inlet port; a first communicating port; a second communicating port; a liquid inflow port; and a liquid outflow port. Under a condition that the tank is in a posture in which the first wall constructs an upper portion of the tank and that the second wall constructs a lower portion of the tank in a vertical direction and that a maximum amount, of the liquid, storable in the tank in an usable posture of the tank, is stored in the first and second chambers, the first and second communicating ports are located at a position above a liquid surface of the maximum amount of the liquid.