公开(公告)号：US20220097406A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-31

申请号：US17488361

申请日：2021-09-29

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Taichi Shirono ,  Yoshinori OSAKABE ,  Fumio NAKAZAWA ,  Sosuke KUROYANAGI

IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus, having a head, reservoir section, a liquid flow path, a lid, a valve, a switching assembly, and a controller, is provided. The reservoir section has a liquid reservoir chamber, an injection port, and an atmosphere communication path. The liquid flow path connects the head and the liquid reservoir chamber. The lid opens and closes the injection port. The switching assembly switches states of the valve between an opening state, in which the valve opens the atmosphere communication path, and a closing state, in which the valve closes the atmosphere communication path. The controller is configured to control the valve through the switching assembly to close the atmosphere communication path, control the head to discharge the liquid after closing the atmosphere communication path, and control the valve through the switching assembly to open the atmosphere communication path before the liquid is injected through the injection port.

公开(公告)号：US20220097401A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-31

申请号：US17488590

申请日：2021-09-29

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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

IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract: A liquid supplying apparatus, having a reservoir section including a reservoir chamber, and a communication section connecting the reservoir chamber and a hole, is provided. The communication section has a first wall and a second wall, a first buffer space, and a second buffer space. The first buffer space and the second buffer space store the liquid flowing on the first wall and the second wall, respectively, in the liquid supplying apparatus being in the first rotated posture. The hole is located at an upper position with respect to a surface of a predetermined maximum amount of the liquid storable in the reservoir chamber in the liquid supplying apparatus being in a usable posture. The hole is open neither to the first buffer space nor the second buffer space. The hole is located in neither the first wall nor the second wall.

公开(公告)号：US20220097400A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-31

申请号：US17481500

申请日：2021-09-22

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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

IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus, having a head, a reservoir section including a liquid reservoir chamber and an atmosphere communication path, a liquid flow path connecting the head with the liquid reservoir chamber, a switching assembly to switch states of the atmosphere communication path between a connecting state and a disconnecting state, and a controller, is provided. The controller is configured to control the switching assembly to switch the states of the atmosphere communication path from the connecting state to the disconnecting state; after switching the states of the atmosphere communication path, control the head to discharge the liquid; and after switching the states of the atmosphere communication path, and in response to a predetermined connection condition being satisfied, control the switching assembly to switch the states of the atmosphere communication path from the disconnecting state to the connecting state.

公开(公告)号：US20220024214A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-27

申请号：US17396818

申请日：2021-08-09

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Yoshinori OSAKABE ,  Tomohisa HIGUCHI

IPC: B41J2/175 ,  B41J2/165 ,  B41J29/02 ,  B41J29/13

Abstract: A liquid-consuming apparatus includes: a tank including a liquid storage chamber which stores a liquid, an inlet formed in a surface of the tank, and an outlet through which the liquid from the liquid storage chamber flows; a cap which is movable between a first position and a second position; a cover which is movable relative to the tank between a closed position and an open position; and a holding member which is connected to the cap and which holds the cap at the second position. The cap at the second position or the holding member is configured to obstruct a movement of the cover from the open position to the closed position.

公开(公告)号：US20220009245A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-13

申请号：US17484759

申请日：2021-09-24

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Yoshinori OSAKABE

IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract: In a printer unit, ink is poured into a storage chamber from an inlet of a tank. The storage chamber communicates with an air chamber. An air tube connects the air chamber and the outside of the tank and is opened and closed by a valve. A cover is movable to a first position in which the inlet is covered and a second position in which the inlet is exposable via a third position being a position between the first position and the second position. A valve opening/closing mechanism opens a valve when the cover is located on a side closer to the first position than the third position, and closes the valve when the cover is located between the third position and the second position. When the cover moves from the third position to the first position, a cap fits over the inlet to seal the storage chamber.

公开(公告)号：US20210347180A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-11

申请号：US17384990

申请日：2021-07-26

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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

IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract: A liquid supplying device includes a tank a tank and a cartridge. The cartridge includes a first storage chamber. The cartridge is formed with a communicating opening in communication with the first storage chamber. The tank has a second storage chamber and a joint having a hollow cylindrical shape. In an attachment state where the communicating opening of the cartridge is connected to the joint, the first storage chamber has a portion positioned above the joint and the second storage chamber is positioned below the joint. At least in the first end portion, the liquid passage has a rectangular shape in a cross section taken along a plane perpendicular to an extending direction of the liquid passage.

公开(公告)号：US20210260880A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US17179514

申请日：2021-02-19

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Satoshi MIYASE ,  Yoshinori OSAKABE

IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a cartridge installing unit for detachably installing a plurality of ink cartridges. The cartridge installing unit includes: a base having a placing surface and aligning the plurality of ink cartridges in a first direction on the placing surface; a moving force applying unit moving an ink cartridge of the plurality of ink cartridges from an installation position to a removal position separated from the installation position in a movement direction including a component of the first direction; and a regulating unit regulating the movement of the ink cartridge from the installation position to the removal position. The moving force applying unit moves the ink cartridge from the installation position to the removal position in a case that the ink cartridge is released from the regulation by the regulating unit.

公开(公告)号：US20210107288A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-15

申请号：US16951422

申请日：2020-11-18

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Yoshinori OSAKABE ,  Masako KAWAGOE ,  Taichi SHIRONO

IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a printer body and an ink container provided in the printer body. The ink container includes an ink containing portion, a frame portion and a cover portion. A top portion of the ink containing portion includes a port. The cover portion is pivotally connected to the frame portion and pivotable between an opened position, in which the port is exposed, and a closed position, in which the cover portion covers the port, with respect to the frame portion. The cover portion includes a sealing member provided corresponding to the port on an opposing surface of the cover portion. When the cover portion is in the closed position, the sealing member seals the port, and when the cover portion is in the opened position, the sealing member is separated from the port.

公开(公告)号：US20210023848A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-28

申请号：US16993536

申请日：2020-08-14

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Yoshinori OSAKABE ,  Tomohisa HIGUCHI ,  Akira SHINODA ,  Akinori IGARASHI ,  Suguru TOMOGUCHI ,  Hisaki SAKURAI

IPC: B41J2/175 ,  G06K15/10 ,  B41J29/02

Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes a casing, a tank formed with a liquid storage chamber which stores liquid, an inlet which allows the liquid to be poured into the liquid storage chamber, and a liquid outflow channel which allows the liquid to flow out from the liquid storage chamber, a conveying mechanism which conveys a recording medium along a conveying path extending in a front-rear direction, a carriage which moves in a left-right direction, and a head mounted on the carriage and having a nozzle which jets the liquid onto the recording medium conveyed by the conveying mechanism. The tank, the conveying path, and the carriage are arranged inside the casing, the tank is arranged outside the conveying path in the left-right direction, and at least a part of the tank is arranged inside both ends of a movement area of the carriage in the left-right direction.

公开(公告)号：US20200079098A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-12

申请号：US16447705

申请日：2019-06-20

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Yoshinori OSAKABE ,  Tomohisa HIGUCHI

IPC: B41J2/175 ,  G03G21/16 ,  G03G15/00 ,  G03G15/10 ,  G03G15/08 ,  B41J2/20

Abstract: There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus including: a tank having a liquid storing chamber, an erected wall through which the liquid inside the liquid storage chamber is visible from outside of the tank, and an inlet which is formed to penetrate through the erected wall and via which the liquid is poured into the liquid storage chamber; a liquid consuming section which consumes the liquid stored in the liquid storing chamber; and a cover. A transmitting section and a checking section are formed in an upper surface, of the cover, under a condition that the cover is in the exposure position, the transmitting section configured to transmit information optically to a user of the liquid consuming apparatus and the checking section configured to prevent the liquid moving on a particular surface of the cover from arriving at the transmitting section.