公开(公告)号：US20240408901A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-12

申请号：US18731888

申请日：2024-06-03

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Takahito MORITA

IPC: B41J25/308 ,  B41J2/045 ,  B41J13/076

Abstract: An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a conveying unit, a recording head, a head housing, and a guide rail. The recording head includes an ink ejection surface provided with a plurality of nozzles which ejects ink toward the recording medium conveyed by the conveying unit. The head housing holds the recording head. The guide rail supports the head housing so that the head housing can reciprocate with respect to the conveying belt. The ink ejection surface is parallel to a conveying surface of the conveying belt. Moreover, the ink ejection surface is inclined with respect to a horizontal direction in a cross section orthogonal to an axial direction of the conveying roller. By moving the head housing along the guide rail extending in the horizontal direction, the ink ejection surface reciprocates between a printing position close to a conveying surface and a maintenance position retracted from the conveying surface.

公开(公告)号：US20220121142A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-21

申请号：US17422402

申请日：2019-12-11

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Takahito MORITA ,  Hiroyoshi OMURA

IPC: G03G15/20 ,  G03G15/00

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, a discharge roller pair, a detection portion, and a discharge control unit. The discharge roller pair discharges a sheet on which a toner image has been fixed in the fixing device to a discharge tray via a discharge port. The detection portion detects a rear end of the sheet being conveyed from the fixing device toward the discharge port. The discharge control unit performs control so that, within a prescribed period from a point in time of detection of the rear end of the sheet by the detection portion to when the rear end of the sheet passes through the discharge roller pair, a discharge speed of the sheet is reduced to a value lower than a reference speed, and after a lapse of the prescribed period, the discharge speed is increased back to the reference speed.