Image forming apparatus
    1.
    发明授权
    Image forming apparatus 有权
    图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US08544983B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-10-01

    申请号:US13222164

    申请日:2011-08-31

    IPC分类号: B41J2/165

    摘要: An image forming apparatus including: a recording head having a nozzle surface in which nozzles to eject liquid droplets in a horizontal direction or a direction slanted from the horizontal direction are formed, the nozzle surface being disposed in a vertical direction or a direction slanted from the vertical direction; a head tank to supply liquid to the recording head; a suction cap to cap the nozzle surface of the recording head; a suction member connected to the suction cap to suck out liquid from the nozzles by the suction cap; a valve member to open or close a sealed space formed by capping the nozzle surface with the suction cap to atmosphere; a liquid supplier to supply the liquid to the head tank and return the liquid from the head tank; and a control unit to control servicing of the recording head.

    摘要翻译: 一种图像形成装置,包括:具有喷嘴表面的记录头,其中形成有沿水平方向或从水平方向倾斜的方向喷射液滴的喷嘴,喷嘴表面沿垂直方向或从该水平方向倾斜的方向 垂直方向 用于向记录头供应液体的头箱; 用于盖住记录头的喷嘴表面的吸嘴; 抽吸构件,其连接到所述抽吸盖,以通过所述抽吸盖从所述喷嘴吸出液体; 阀构件,用于打开或关闭通过将吸嘴盖盖到大气的喷嘴表面而形成的密封空间; 液体供应器,用于将液体供应到头箱并且从头箱返回液体; 以及控制单元,用于控制记录头的维修。

    Image forming apparatus
    4.
    发明授权
    Image forming apparatus 有权
    图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US08556376B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-10-15

    申请号:US13297677

    申请日:2011-11-16

    IPC分类号: B41J2/165

    CPC分类号: B41J2/16508 B41J2/16532

    摘要: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a recording head; a cap member capping the nozzle surface of the recording head and including a release port and a suction port; a suction unit in communication with the suction port; a switch unit opening and closing the release port to the air and capable of adjusting the opening amount of the release port to at least a first opening amount and a second opening amount larger than the first opening amount; and a control unit that controls the suction unit and the switch unit so that the release port is opened to the first opening amount to have a predetermined amount of air flow into the cap member after the cap member is suctioned by the suction unit, and the release port is then opened to the second opening amount.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种图像形成装置,包括记录头; 帽部件盖住记录头的喷嘴表面并且包括释放口和吸入口; 与吸入口连通的抽吸单元; 开关单元,其将释放口打开和关闭到空气,并且能够将释放口的开口量调整为至少第一开启量和大于第一开启量的第二开启量; 以及控制单元,其控制所述抽吸单元和所述开关单元,使得所述释放口在所述抽吸单元被所述盖构件抽吸之后,使所述排出口向所述第一开口量打开以使得具有预定量的空气流入所述盖构件, 然后将释放口打开至第二开启量。

    Image forming apparatus
    5.
    发明授权
    Image forming apparatus 有权
    图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US08752953B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-06-17

    申请号:US13286417

    申请日:2011-11-01

    IPC分类号: B41J2/01

    CPC分类号: B41J3/60 B41J3/407 B41J11/007

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a conveyance belt, a charger, a reverse passage, and an auxiliary conveyance roller. The belt is looped around at least two rollers to adhere a recording medium thereto by electrostatic force and convey the medium. The belt defines a normal conveyance area in which the medium is conveyed in a first direction. The reverse passage delivers the medium turned around in an area downstream from the belt in the first direction and sends the medium back again to a portion of the belt upstream from the head in the first direction. The reverse passage includes an opposite conveyance area of the belt in which the medium is conveyed in a second direction opposite the first direction. The auxiliary conveyance roller is disposed at least one of an entry part and an exit part of the opposite conveyance area.

    摘要翻译: 图像形成装置包括记录头,输送带,充电器,反向通道和辅助输送辊。 皮带围绕至少两个滚子环绕,以通过静电力将记录介质粘附到其上并传送介质。 皮带限定了在第一方向上传送介质的正常输送区域。 反向通道在第一方向上在皮带下游的区域中传送介质,并将介质再次返回到头部沿着第一方向的上游的一部分。 反向通道包括带的相对的传送区域,其中介质沿与第一方向相反的第二方向传送。 辅助传送辊设置在相对传送区域的入口部分和出口部分中的至少一个上。

    Image forming apparatus
    6.
    发明授权
    Image forming apparatus 有权
    图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US08573769B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-11-05

    申请号:US13238034

    申请日:2011-09-21

    IPC分类号: B41J2/01

    CPC分类号: B41J13/106

    摘要: An image forming apparatus including a conveyance unit to intermittently convey a recording medium in a conveyance direction, a carriage movable in a main scanning direction and including a recording head, a conveyance path having a curved portion provided downstream from an imaging range of the recording head, a first discharge member provided downstream from the imaging range to discharge the recording medium, and a second discharge member provided downstream from the first discharge member and having a nip to sandwich the recording medium to discharge the recording medium. A length of the conveyance path extending from a downstream edge of the imaging range to the nip is longer than a maximum length of the recording medium usable in the image forming apparatus to prevent a leading edge of the recording medium from being sandwiched by the second discharge member when the carriage performs last scanning movement.

    摘要翻译: 一种图像形成装置,包括:传送单元,用于沿传送方向间歇地传送记录介质;可在主扫描方向上移动并包括记录头的托架;具有设置在记录头的成像范围下游的弯曲部分的传送路径; 设置在成像范围的下游以排出记录介质的第一排出构件,以及设置在第一排出构件下游并具有夹持夹持记录介质以排出记录介质的第二排出构件。 从成像范围的下游边缘延伸到辊隙的输送路径的长度比可以用于图像形成装置的记录介质的最大长度长,以防止记录介质的前缘被第二次排出 滑架执行上次扫描运动时的成员。

    Image forming apparatus
    7.
    发明授权
    Image forming apparatus 有权
    图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US08757791B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-06-24

    申请号:US13309949

    申请日:2011-12-02

    摘要: An image forming apparatus including an image forming device to form an ink image on a recording sheet, a discharger to discharge the sheet bearing the ink image in a face-down manner, and a stacker to stack the discharged sheet thereon. The stacker includes a first surface to deform a rear end portion of the sheet, and a second surface which has a surface to press a front end portion of the sheet and is slanting so as to rise in the sheet discharging direction. The first and second surfaces are arranged such that the first surface or an extended surface thereof intersects at an angle with the second surface or an extended surface thereof to form an intersection line and such that when the front edge of the recording sheet reaches the second surface, the rear edge of the recording sheet has not yet been discharged by the discharger.

    摘要翻译: 一种图像形成装置,包括用于在记录纸上形成油墨图像的图像形成装置,用于以面朝下的方式排出带有油墨图像的纸张的排出器和将排出的纸张堆叠在其上的堆垛机。 堆垛机包括使片材的后端部分变形的第一表面和具有压制片材的前端部分的表面并且倾斜以使片材排出方向上升的第二表面。 第一表面和第二表面被布置成使得第一表面或其延伸表面与第二表面或其延伸表面成一角度相交,以形成交叉线,使得当记录纸的前边缘到达第二表面 记录纸的后边缘尚未被排出器排出。

    Opening and closing mechanism and image forming apparatus including the opening and closing mechanism
    8.
    发明授权
    Opening and closing mechanism and image forming apparatus including the opening and closing mechanism 有权
    打开和关闭机构以及包括打开和关闭机构的图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US08737879B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-05-27

    申请号:US13312066

    申请日:2011-12-06

    IPC分类号: G03G21/00

    摘要: An opening and closing mechanism includes a movable member removably mounted relative to a main body of an apparatus, an opening and closing member having a cover portion, protrusions, and pivot shafts, and shaft position adjusters to change positions of the pivot shafts while the cover portion pivots between a closed position and an open position. The opening and closing member is arranged so that, on an imaginary plane perpendicular to a central axis of each pivot shaft on which each pivot shaft and the movable member are projected, a projected portion of each pivot shaft is positioned to interfere with a projected portion of the movable member when the cover portion is placed at the closed position, and the cover portion is positioned so as not to interfere with a trajectory of movement of the movable member while the cover portion pivots toward the open position.

    摘要翻译: 一种开闭机构包括:相对于设备的主体可移除地安装的可动构件,具有盖部分,突起和枢转轴的开闭构件,以及用于改变枢轴的位置的轴位置调节器,同时盖 部分在关闭位置和打开位置之间枢转。 打开和关闭构件被布置成使得在垂直于每个枢转轴和可动构件所在的每个枢转轴的中心轴线的虚拟平面上,每个枢轴的突出部分被定位成与突出部分干涉 当所述盖部分处于所述关闭位置时,所述盖部分被定位成当所述盖部分朝向所述打开位置枢转时不会妨碍所述可移动部件的运动轨迹。

    Image forming apparatus
    9.
    发明授权
    Image forming apparatus 有权
    图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US08714682B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-05-06

    申请号:US13286426

    申请日:2011-11-01

    IPC分类号: B41J29/38 B41J2/01

    CPC分类号: B41J11/007 B41J3/60 B41J29/38

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a conveyance belt, a reverse passage, and a charger. The belt is looped around at least two rollers to adhere a recording medium thereto by electrostatic force and convey the medium. The belt defines a normal conveyance area in which the medium is conveyed in a first direction with the medium facing the head. The reverse passage sends the medium back again to a portion of the belt upstream from the head in the first direction. The reverse passage includes an opposite conveyance area of the belt in which the medium is conveyed in a second direction and a bypass passage to guide the medium separated from the opposite conveyance area toward the normal conveyance area. The charger is disposed between the bypass passage and an outer surface of the belt to charge the outer surface of the belt.

    摘要翻译: 图像形成装置包括记录头,传送带,反向通道和充电器。 皮带围绕至少两个滚子环绕,以通过静电力将记录介质粘附到其上并传送介质。 皮带限定了正常的传送区域,其中介质沿着第一方向传送,介质面向头部。 反向通道将介质再次返回到沿着第一方向从头部上游的带的一部分。 反向通道包括传送介质沿第二方向传送的带的相对传送区域和旁路通道,以将从相对传送区域分离的介质引向正常传送区域。 充电器设置在旁路通道和带的外表面之间以对带的外表面充电。

    Image forming apparatus
    10.
    发明授权
    Image forming apparatus 有权
    图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US08336987B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-12-25

    申请号:US12700447

    申请日:2010-02-04

    IPC分类号: B41J29/13

    CPC分类号: B41J19/04

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a carriage, and a damping mechanism. The carriage includes an image forming mechanism and moves back and forth in a main scan direction. The damping mechanism generates an impact to suppress vibration caused by movement of the carriage. The damping mechanism suppresses vibration during at least one of acceleration and deceleration of the carriage, and is inactive during movement of the carriage at a constant speed. The damping mechanism suppresses vibration when acceleration of the carriage equals or exceeds a predetermined threshold acceleration. The damping mechanism includes a suppression member and a mass member that strikes the suppression member. The suppression member is at least one of a shock absorber and an elastic member. Shock absorbing characteristics of the shock absorber and elasticity of the elastic member are variable.

    摘要翻译: 图像形成装置包括壳体,滑架和阻尼机构。 托架包括图像形成机构,并且在主扫描方向上来回移动。 阻尼机构产生冲击以抑制由滑架的运动引起的振动。 阻尼机构在滑架的加速和减速中的至少一个中抑制振动,并且在滑架以恒定速度移动期间不起作用。 当载物台的加速度等于或超过预定的阈值加速度时,阻尼机构抑制振动。 阻尼机构包括抑制构件和撞击抑制构件的质量构件。 抑制构件是减震器和弹性构件中的至少一个。 减震器的冲击吸收特性和弹性部件的弹性是可变的。