B41J2/16511

IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND GUIDE PORTIONS FOR MOVING CAP UNIT TOWARD HEAD TO COVER NOZZLE SURFACE
20220305790 · 2022-09-29 · ·

An image recording apparatus includes: a carriage movable in a first direction; a head mounted on the carriage; a holder movable in the first direction; a cap unit mounted on the holder; and first and second guide portions. The cap unit is movable relative to the holder in the first direction and is also movable toward and away from the head in a second direction crossing the first direction. The head is configured to abut on a second abutment portion of the cap unit in accordance with movement of the carriage in the first direction toward a first abutment portion of the holder. The first guide portion is configured to guide the holder in the first direction. The second guide portion is configured to guide the holder in the second direction to move the cap unit toward the head in accordance with movement of the holder in the first direction.

Liquid discharge apparatus
11427008 · 2022-08-30 · ·

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a head configured to discharge a liquid, and a discharge receptacle configured to receive the liquid discharged from the head at an installation position. The discharge receptacle includes a liquid holder configured to receive the liquid discharged from the head, and a support configured to detachably support the liquid holder. At least a part of the support is displaceable to a detachment position at which the liquid holder is detachable from the support, and the detachment position is lower than the installation position.

Liquid Ejection Device
20170225465 · 2017-08-10 ·

A liquid ejection device includes an ejection head, a cap configured to cover the nozzle, a first liquid receiver including a first receiving surface and a discharge portion connected to the first receiving surface. The liquid ejection device includes a second liquid receiver including a second receiving surface positioned under the discharge portion. One of the first liquid receiver and the second liquid receiver has an engagement portion, and the other of the first liquid receiver and the second liquid receiver has an engaged portion. A play between the engagement portion and the engaged portion is smaller than a distance between both ends of the second receiving surface in the direction parallel to the second receiving surface.

Liquid Discharge Apparatus
20170225467 · 2017-08-10 ·

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including a liquid discharge head, a carriage, a cap, and a cap moving mechanism configured to locate the cap in a capping position and in an uncapping position. The cap moving mechanism has a moving member configured to move integrally with the cap in a first direction, a carriage locker, and a restraint portion configured to restrain the moving member from rotating about an axis orthogonal to the first direction. The restraint portion restrains the moving member from rotating such that when the cap arrives in the uncapping position, the rotating range of the carriage locker does not overlap with the carriage in a scanning direction.

Liquid Ejection Device
20170225466 · 2017-08-10 ·

A liquid ejection device includes an ejection head with at least one nozzle on an ejection surface, a cap, and a liquid receiver having a first side in a first direction parallel to the ejection surface and a second side opposite to the first side in the first direction. The liquid ejection device includes a movement mechanism configured to move at least one of the cap and the ejection head between states where the cap covers the ejection head and where the cap does not cover the ejection head. In the state that the cap is separated from the ejection head, the support structure supports the liquid receiver to be inclined such that the first side is positioned lower than the second side in the second direction. The liquid receiver includes an outlet disposed on the first side.

Printing unit with replaceable printhead

A printing unit includes: a sleeve and a print module received in the sleeve, the print module being slidably removable, in a first direction, from the sleeve. The print module includes a supply module and a replaceable printhead. The printhead is slidably removable, in a second direction, from the supply module, the first and second directions being non-parallel.

PRINTER
20170259573 · 2017-09-14 ·

There is provided a printer including: a liquid jetting head; a receiving section; a waste-liquid storing section; a connecting channel connecting the receiving section and the waste-liquid storing section; a pump; and a controller. The controller executes: printing; recovering nozzles; discharging the liquid, which is present in at least one of the receiving section and the connecting channel, to the waste-liquid storing section, after the recovering of the nozzles. Under a condition that there is no input of the print data before the discharging of the liquid, the controller executes the discharging of the liquid continuously after the recovering of the nozzles; under a condition that there is an input of the print data before the discharging of the liquid, the controller executes the printing after the recovering of the nozzles and then executes at least a part of the discharging of the liquid after the printing.

Liquid ejection apparatus having wiper for wiping ejection surface
09757947 · 2017-09-12 · ·

A wiper moving mechanism moves a wiper member a predetermined distance in an intersecting direction intersecting with an ejection surface, between a wiping position where a wiper of the wiper member is in contact with the ejection surface and a separation position. The cam is rotatable about a rotation shaft and includes a contact part which causes the wiper to make contact with a cleaning member when the contact part makes contacts with a wiper holder. The contact part is configured to be distant from the wiper holder in the intersecting direction when the wiper member is positioned at the wiping position and to be overlapped with a moving range of the wiper holder in the intersecting direction by moving the wiper member by the predetermined distance in the intersecting direction. The contact part has a length which is shorter than the moving range in the intersecting direction.

PRINTING DEVICE INCLUDING CONTROLLER PROVIDED WITH MANUAL MAINTENANCE MODE AND AUTOMATED MAINTENANCE MODE AS CONTROL MODE FOR CONTROLLING MAINTENANCE PORTION
20210402777 · 2021-12-30 ·

A printing device includes a printing portion, a maintenance portion, and a controller. The printing portion includes an ejection head and prints using ink. The maintenance portion performs maintenance on the ejection head. The maintenance involves consumption of ink. The controller has a manual maintenance mode and an automated maintenance mode. In the manual maintenance mode, the controller executes a maintenance using the maintenance portion in response to a maintenance command signal based on a manual operation. In the automated maintenance mode, the controller automatically executes a maintenance using the maintenance portion in response to a maintenance execution condition being met. Based on control information acquired, the controller switches an operating mode of the printing device from a first operating mode of selectively executing the manual maintenance mode and the automated maintenance mode to a second operation mode of executing the automated maintenance mode without executing the manual maintenance mode.

MAINTENANCE DEVICE AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS
20210394516 · 2021-12-23 · ·

A maintenance device configured to maintain a head configured to discharge a first liquid, the maintenance device includes a cap configured to contact a nozzle surface of the head, a storage configured to store a second liquid to be supplied into the cap, a supply device configured to supply the second liquid into the cap, a receptacle configured to receive the second liquid supplied into and overflown from the cap, and a collection device configured to collect the second liquid received by the receptacle.