Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus including recording head and head tank
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置,包括记录头和头箱
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Application No.: US13795052Application Date: 2013-03-12
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Publication No.: US08851596B2Publication Date: 2014-10-07
- Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
- Applicant: Daisuke Nakamura
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cooper & Dunham LLP
- Priority: JP2012-100678 20120426
- Main IPC: B41J2/195
- IPC: B41J2/195 ; B41J2/175 ; B41J29/38

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a recording head, a head tank, a displacement member, an air release unit, a main tank, a liquid feed device, a body-side detector, and a supply controller. The supply controller controls a normal filling operation to start feeding liquid from the main tank to the head tank without opening the air release unit when a consumption amount of the liquid in the head tank is a threshold amount or greater, and stop feeding the liquid from the main tank to the head tank when the body-side detector detects an arrival of the displacement member at a normal fill position. When the body-side detector detects the displacement member at a start of the normal filling operation, the supply controller corrects the normal fill position to a position at which the liquid feed device can feed the liquid to the head tank.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130286061A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD AND HEAD TANK Public/Granted day:2013-10-31
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