摘要:
An ink-jet printing apparatus, an ink-supplying apparatus, and a method for supplying ink are configured so that a mode of ink supply is changed to another mode, for example the mode of supplying ink to an ink tank is changed to another in accordance with a fact that a next page is intended to be printed or not, when an ink tank that requires the supply of ink is detected, with the result that the printing speed is increased.
摘要:
A thermoelectric module is capable of successfully reducing the heat stress for increased reliability. The module includes a plurality of thermoelectric chips of P-type and N-type arranged in a matrix between sets of first and second contacts to form a series electrical circuit. The chips are arranged to give at least three chip arrays each having a limited number of the chips. A first carrier is provided on one side of the chips to carry the first contacts and to include first bridges each integrally joining two adjacent first contacts to define first discrete couples for electrical connection of the chips in each chip array. The first carrier further includes at least two inter-array bridges which are solely responsible for electrical interconnection between the adjacent chip arrays. On the opposite side of the chips, there are formed a plurality of second bridges each integrally joining the two adjacent second contacts to give second discrete couples for electrical connection of the two adjacent chips in each of the chip arrays. Thus, the inter-array bridges are formed only on one side of the chips for interconnection of the first contacts between the adjacent chip arrays. Therefore, the heat stress applied to the end of the chip array where the two adjacent chip arrays are interconnected can be well relieved on the side of the second contacts in which the second discrete couples are kept totally isolated from each other.
摘要:
An ink cartridge, removably mountable on a fixed mounting portion of an ink jet recording apparatus for supplying discharged ink to a recording head carried on a movable carriage of the apparatus, comprises a flag member mounted for protrusion and retraction, an arrangement for protruding the flag member toward a path along which the carriage is moved when the ink cartridge is mounted on the mounting portion, and a photosensor mounted on the carriage in a position where it will be shielded from light by the protruding flag member.
摘要:
A recording device comprises a drive mechanism section for effecting recording on a recording object material, and an exterior cover for covering the drive mechanism section, the exterior cover having a plurality of cover members separated by at least one partition surface, wherein for two cover members to be combined with each other out of the cover members, a partition surface of one cover member is provided with a projection which functions as a fulcrum when the other cover member pivots on an axis parallel to the partition surface, and partition surfaces of the two cover members are coupled to each other by an engagement structure which engages when the two cover members move away from each other, on one side with respect to the axis, while being coupled by fastening with a screw on the other side.
摘要:
An imaging device includes a lens array in which lenses are arranged in a line, the lenses being optically equivalent, a roof mirror array having roof mirrors arranged in a line parallel to a direction in which axes of the lenses of the lens array are arranged, and an aperture member having apertures arranged so as to correspond to the lenses of the lens array. The center of an interval between axes of adjacent lenses of the lens array corresponds to a ridge line of the roof mirror array, and wherein at least two roof mirrors are provided with respect to each of the lenses of the lens array.
摘要:
A sheet supplying apparatus includes a sheet supporter for supporting sheets, a supply rotary device for feeding out the sheets supported by the sheet supporter, a separation member for separating sheets fed by the supply rotary device one by one by elastically changing an inclination angle of the separation member when the sheets fed by the supply rotary means abut against and ride over the separation member, and a sheet guide member removably disposed above the sheet supporting means and adapted to guide the sheet in such a manner that the sheet is subjected to resistance of the separation member smaller than resistance from the separation member to the sheet when the sheets are supplied from the sheet supporter.
摘要:
A container for safekeeping an ink jet cartridge is provided with the main body of a container for storing an ink jet cartridge having a recording head unit, and an ink tank unit containing ink to be supplied to the recording head unit, a lid element for covering the inlet and outlet of the main body of the container for storing or removing the ink jet cartridge, an elastic cap member provided in the main body of the container for covering the recording head unit. This container for safekeeping an ink jet cartridge comprises a rib arranged on the inner wall surface of the lid element for exerting pressure on the recording head unit of the ink jet cartridge to press it to the elastic cap member; and a recess arranged on the inner wall surface of the main body of the container in a position corresponding to the location where the elastic cap member is arranged. In this way, it is possible to cap the recording head appropriately in the container to provide a highly reliable safekeeping of the ink jet cartridge, and at the same time, to store and safekeep the ink jet cartridges for monochromatic use and color uses exhangeably.
摘要:
A sheet supply apparatus has a sheet supporting unit for supporting a plurality of sheets, a sheet supply device for feeding out the sheets supported by the sheet supporting unit, and a separator which can be elastically flexed to change an inclination angle thereof when the separator is urged by a sheet fed out by the sheet supply device for separating the sheet which rides over the separator from the other sheets. The separator is disposed in an inclined condition so that a tip end of an abutment surface, against which the sheets are to be urged and over which the sheet rides, of the separator before flexed is inclined with respect to a normal plane perpendicular to a sheet feeding direction by a predetermined angle toward the sheet supporting unit.
摘要:
A recording apparatus comprises a head for forming an image on a recording medium or for reading an image formed on a recording medium; a supporting member for holding the head; a first unit for electrical connection provided for the head; a second unit for electrical connection provided for the supporting member, which can be electrically connected to the first unit for electrical connection; and a member for deelectrifying static electricity, which is provided for the supporting member in the vicinity of the second unit for electrical connection. This deelectrifying member prevents static electricity from flowing into the signal lines provided for the second unit for electrical connection when the supporting member is actuated to hold the head.
摘要:
A method of fabricating a thermoelectric module in which a plurality of thermoelectric chips are arranged in a matrix between first and second dielectric substrates and electrically connected in series so as to heat one of the substrates and cool the other substrate. Elongated thermoelectric bars of P-type and N-type to be cut into the chips are employed together with a first conductive plate having a plurality of first contacts arranged in a matrix pattern. Adjacent first contacts spaced along the row are interconnected by horizontal bridges. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of integrating the first conductive plate to the first substrate to support the first conductive plate thereby; placing a plurality of the bars of the P-type and N-type on the first contacts along the rows in such a manner that the P-type bars alternate with the N-type bars in a spaced relation along the column; bonding each bar on its one face to the first contacts; cutting each bar into the chips and cutting the horizontal bridges simultaneously to allocate the chips on the individual first contacts; placing a plurality of second contacts of a second substrate onto the chips to form a series electric circuit of the chips in combination with the first contacts, and bonding the second substrate supporting the second contacts to the first substrate.