公开(公告)号：US12128694B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-29

申请号：US18331506

申请日：2023-06-08

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Keisuke Sasaki ,  Haruki Miyasaka

IPC: B41J29/13 ,  B41J2/01 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B41J15/04 ,  B41J25/00 ,  H04N1/00

CPC classification number: B41J29/13 ,  B41J2/01 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B41J15/04 ,  B41J25/001 ,  H04N1/0057 ,  H04N1/00631

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a housing; a recording section that performs a recording operation on a medium and is disposed inside the housing; a storage section that stores the medium; a transport route along which the medium is transported; a transport section that transports the medium; a reading section that reads an original sheet and is positioned higher than the recording section; a supply section that supplies the original sheet to the reading section; and a supply route through which the original sheet passes. Each of the supply and transport routes is formed at substantially right angles to a width of the housing. The transport route has a curved section in which the medium is turned over. The reading section is positioned behind the recording section in a depth direction from the front to rear surface of the housing.

公开(公告)号：US12116226B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-15

申请号：US18561359

申请日：2022-06-21

Applicant: KOENIG & BAUER AG

Inventor： Heinz Michael Koch ,  Benjamin Gohl ,  Volker Kessler

IPC: B65H5/22 ,  B41F3/06 ,  B41J11/00 ,  B41J13/00 ,  B41J13/08 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B65H5/38 ,  B65H11/00

CPC classification number: B65H11/005 ,  B41J11/0085 ,  B41J13/0009 ,  B41J13/009 ,  B41J13/08 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B65H5/38 ,  B65H2404/61 ,  B65H2406/122 ,  B65H2801/21

Abstract: In some examples, a printing press includes a non-impact printing device, and further includes a plurality of processing stations that each process sheets. In the printing press, at least one lifting nozzle is arranged in a profile element of a guide device. The lifting nozzle is configured to open in a direction of a tip of a tapered profile element. A suction belt feed table includes a catching device having a catching position, which is assumed as a result of an actuation, for adjacent individual sheets that follow one another. The catching device, in its catching position, catches sheets on the suction belt feed table that are fed from a first transport device, which is arranged upstream from the suction belt feed table, to the suction belt feed table, before the sheets are transferred to a transport device arranged downstream from the suction belt feed table and stacked there.

公开(公告)号：US11964473B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-23

申请号：US17128710

申请日：2020-12-21

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Yohei Nunokawa

IPC: B41J13/00 ,  B41J2/21 ,  B41J11/00 ,  B41J13/10

CPC classification number: B41J13/0027 ,  B41J2/2103 ,  B41J11/0095 ,  B41J13/10

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an image formation unit, a tray on which a medium is placed, a movement unit, and a control unit. The image formation unit includes a first head forming a first image and a second head forming a second image. The movement unit is provided so as to be capable of moving the tray to a first position at which the medium is placed and a second position serving as a reference position. The control unit switches between a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, a starting position is moved to an image forming region, and the tray is not moved to the second position, and a movement direction is changed to form the first image and the second image. In the second mode, after the first image is formed, the tray is moved to the second position, and then the movement direction is changed to form the second image.

公开(公告)号：US20240109285A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-04

申请号：US18477629

申请日：2023-09-29

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Kenjiro ISHIHARA ,  Kazuhisa TAKEDA ,  Keita HANAWA ,  Ryo NISHIKAWA

IPC: B41J2/045 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B41J29/13

CPC classification number: B41J2/04501 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B41J29/13

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head that faces a medium supported by a medium support unit and ejects a liquid, an interference object sensor including a detector that detects an interference object with the head, and a cover that can switch the detector to a shielded state and to an exposed state.

公开(公告)号：US20190118559A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-25

申请号：US16136822

申请日：2018-09-20

Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Inventor： Kenji Samoto

IPC: B41J13/14 ,  B65H3/06 ,  B65H5/06 ,  B41J13/036 ,  B41J13/03 ,  B41J2/01 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B41J11/04 ,  B41J11/00 ,  B65H5/38 ,  B41J11/06 ,  B41J13/02 ,  B65H9/08

CPC classification number: B41J13/14 ,  B41J2/01 ,  B41J11/0025 ,  B41J11/0045 ,  B41J11/0055 ,  B41J11/04 ,  B41J11/06 ,  B41J13/02 ,  B41J13/03 ,  B41J13/036 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B65H3/0676 ,  B65H3/0684 ,  B65H5/062 ,  B65H5/068 ,  B65H5/38 ,  B65H9/08 ,  B65H2301/5122 ,  B65H2402/46 ,  B65H2404/1115 ,  B65H2404/1521 ,  B65H2404/513 ,  B65H2404/611 ,  B65H2404/694 ,  B65H2404/6942 ,  B65H2601/272

Abstract: An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a sheet includes a recording section which records the image on the sheet in a transport passage for transporting the sheet in a transport direction and multiple plates which are spaced apart from each other in a widthwise direction. These multiple plates include a first type of plate and a second type of plate. Plates of a first type of plate are configured to overlap a sheet when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction and the widthwise direction, while plates of the second type of plate do not.

公开(公告)号：US20190105924A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-11

申请号：US16214954

申请日：2018-12-10

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Tetsuo ASADA ,  Hirotaka AOKI ,  Satoru NAKAKITA ,  Shota IIJIMA

IPC: B41J11/00 ,  H04N1/04 ,  B41J11/58 ,  B41J13/10

CPC classification number: B41J11/0045 ,  B41J11/58 ,  B41J13/10 ,  H04N1/04

Abstract: An image reading device includes a tray unit, a recording unit disposed above the tray unit, an outer guide defining a curved path extending from the tray unit to the recording unit, a sheet feeder configured to feed a sheet from the tray unit to the curved path, and a return guide disposed between the recording unit and the tray unit. The return guide pivots about a shaft and guides the sheet having an image recorded thereon back to the curved path. The tray unit includes at least one supporting portion. The return guide includes at least one supported portion. The at least one supporting portion of the tray unit engages the at least one supported portion of the return guide such that the return guide takes a guiding position in which the return guide defines a return path extending to the curved path.

公开(公告)号：US20180162148A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-14

申请号：US15717356

申请日：2017-09-27

Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Hidekazu KOMIYA

IPC: B41J11/02 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B41J2/01

CPC classification number: B41J11/02 ,  B41J2/01 ,  B41J3/4078 ,  B41J11/06 ,  B41J13/10

Abstract: A print device includes a head, a platen unit, and a platen support portion. The head is configured to discharge a liquid onto a print medium. The platen unit includes a platen, a mount portion, and a connection portion. The platen support portion mounts with the mount portion. The platen support portion is movable between a print position and a set position. The set position is a position in which the print medium is to be removed from the platen. The platen has a surface on which a print medium is to be placed. The connection portion connects the mount portion and the platen such that a position of the platen is changeable between a first position and a second position with respect to the mount portion. The second position is a different position from the first position in a direction along the surface.

公开(公告)号：US20180086115A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-29

申请号：US15651080

申请日：2017-07-17

Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Inventor： Tsuyoshi Ito

IPC: B41J11/04 ,  B41J13/10

CPC classification number: B41J11/04 ,  B41J2/01 ,  B41J11/0045 ,  B41J11/005 ,  B41J11/06 ,  B41J13/00 ,  B41J13/03 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B65H5/062 ,  B65H9/04

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a recording section which is provided over a transport passage for transporting a sheet in a transport direction and which has nozzles for discharging an ink onto the sheet; a platen which is provided under the recording section with the transport passage intervening therebetween and which has a plurality of ribs provided to support the sheet while being separated from each other in a widthwise direction of the transport passage perpendicular to the transport direction, the respective ribs protruding upwardly and extending in the transport direction; and a plurality of holding members which are provided to be positioned between the plurality of ribs in the widthwise direction of the transport passage over the platen on an upstream side in the transport direction from the nozzles and which abut against an upper surface of the sheet and press the sheet toward the platen.

公开(公告)号：US20180001677A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-04

申请号：US15640857

申请日：2017-07-03

Applicant: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.

Inventor： Takehiro KIKUI ,  Takuro KOHYAMA

IPC: B41J13/00 ,  B41J13/10

CPC classification number: B41J13/0009 ,  B41J3/4075 ,  B41J11/0095 ,  B41J11/46 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B41J15/046

Abstract: A sheet detection device includes a sheet guide disposed between a sheet feeding opening into which a sheet is inserted and a printing mechanism of printing on the sheet, the sheet guide including a guide surface through which the sheet passes, a sheet detector including an optical sensor that detects a predetermined position of the sheet, an opening formed in the guide surface, the sheet detector being disposed inside the opening and the optical sensor being exposed through the opening, and a transparent guide cover provided in the guide surface to cover at least a first border position between the sheet detector and the opening on an upstream side in a sheet transport direction.

公开(公告)号：US20170266987A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-21

申请号：US15460554

申请日：2017-03-16

Applicant: Kohki ASADA ,  Masato OGAWA ,  Natsuki SUGIYAMA

Inventor： Kohki ASADA ,  Masato OGAWA ,  Natsuki SUGIYAMA

IPC: B41J11/00

CPC classification number: B41J11/002 ,  B41J11/0015 ,  B41J11/0025 ,  B41J11/0045 ,  B41J11/005 ,  B41J11/006 ,  B41J11/007 ,  B41J11/0085 ,  B41J13/0036 ,  B41J13/10 ,  B41J13/106 ,  B41J13/16 ,  B41J13/24 ,  B41M5/0017 ,  F26B3/283 ,  F26B13/101 ,  F26B13/28 ,  F26B13/30

Abstract: A conveying device includes a blower and a conveyor. The blower blows air to a sheet material. The conveyor conveys the sheet material through a blowing region of the blower. The conveyor includes a surface movable member and a presser. The surface movable member conveys the sheet material with movement of a surface of the surface movable member, with a back side of the sheet material supported with the surface movable member. The presser presses at least a portion of a leading end of the sheet material toward the surface movable member in at least an area from a position upstream from the blowing region in a conveyance direction of the sheet material to a position in the blowing region of the blower.