IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240316961A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-26

    申请号:US18732886

    申请日:2024-06-04

    IPC分类号: B41J19/20 B41J25/00

    摘要: In an image forming apparatus, a carriage mounts a recording head for discharging droplets, and moves in a main scan direction. A guide member slidably guides the carriage. An encoder scale is arranged along the main scan direction. An encoder sensor reads the encoder scale. The carriage includes a head mounting part for mounting the recording head, and a sensor attaching part for attaching the encoder sensor.
    The sensor attaching part is provided so as to be extended from the head mounting part. The encoder scale is arranged at a location which the encoder sensor can read. A partition member is provided to separate the head mounting part from the sensor attaching part in the carriage. The head mounting part is arranged in a first space, and the sensor attaching part and the encoder scale are arranged in a second space separated from the first space by the partition member.

    Recording apparatus
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12083806B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-10

    申请号:US18057574

    申请日:2022-11-21

    发明人: Nobutaka Suzuki

    IPC分类号: B41J25/308 B41J25/00 B41J2/01

    摘要: A recording apparatus includes a head unit including a recording head and configured to move between a recording position where recording is performed on a medium and a retraction position away from a medium transportation path; a movement mechanism that moves the head unit; and a positioning portion configured to position the head unit at the recording position. A moment for rotating the head unit is produced by a force applied by the movement mechanism to the head unit and by a reaction force received by the head unit from the positioning portion. A unit pusher configured to apply, to the head unit, a force acting in a direction of canceling rotation of the head unit when the head unit is located at the recording position pushes the head unit in a direction intersecting with a moving direction of the head unit.

    DIGITAL INKJET PRINTING MACHINE FOR PRINTING ON CYLINDRICAL SUBSTRATES

    公开(公告)号:US20240190141A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-13

    申请号:US18553539

    申请日:2022-03-28

    发明人: Ivan RIBONI

    摘要: Digital inkjet printing machine printing on cylindrical substrates, comprising a conveyor table conveying a cylindrical substrate and a printing station equipped with printheads having a parallel longitudinal axis. The table has a vertical rotation axis and supports a spindle supporting the cylindrical substrate. The spindle has an axis radially oriented with respect to the vertical rotation axis, and is actuatable in rotation about its axis. The conveyor table is configured to stop the spindle below the printheads, so the printheads have its axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the printheads. The spindle axis stopped below the printheads belongs to main planes in which the printheads lie. The printheads are equidistant from the axis of the spindle. A first adjustment means adjusts the distance between the axis of the spindle and the printheads and a second adjustment means adjusts the orientation of the main planes in which the printheads lie.

    Machine for printing substrates and method for printing substrates using said machine

    公开(公告)号:US11964503B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-23

    申请号:US17609230

    申请日:2020-05-19

    IPC分类号: B41J3/407 B41J11/00 B41J25/00

    摘要: A machine for printing substrates and a method for printing substrates using the machine, which has a print head, the print head having at least one ejection nozzle for ejecting a product on the substrate; translation device with a movable part, the translation device configured for supporting and translating the substrate by the movable part; positioning device for establishing and fixing a relative position between the substrate and the print head. The machine additionally has guiding device for guiding the movable part; and holding device for fixing the substrate with respect to the movable part; with the substrate being fixed to the movable part and the movable part guided by the guiding device, the substrate can be translated to receive the product being ejected.

    Recording apparatus
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11958300B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-16

    申请号:US17812319

    申请日:2022-07-13

    IPC分类号: B41J25/308 B41J25/00

    CPC分类号: B41J25/003

    摘要: A recording apparatus includes a carriage on which the recording head is mounted and in which a first measuring area and a second measuring area are provided, a platen disposed to face the recording head, a reference portion disposed on the platen at a position faceable by the recording head; a distance sensor provided on either of the carriage or the reference portion and configured to measure a distance between a measuring area and the reference portion, and a controller that determines an inclination of the carriage with respect to the platen based on a measurement result of the distance sensor, and controls execution of a predetermined process.

    PRINTING APPARATUS
    6.
    发明公开
    PRINTING APPARATUS 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240109348A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-04

    申请号:US18477577

    申请日:2023-09-29

    IPC分类号: B41J25/00 B41J29/02

    CPC分类号: B41J25/001 B41J29/02

    摘要: A printing apparatus includes a medium support unit having a support surface that supports a medium. A position adjustment unit includes a plurality of position adjustment mechanisms that adjust a position of a support surface in an intersecting direction. The position adjustment unit can change an inclination of the support surface by some of the plurality of position adjustment mechanisms moving independently, and can change the position of the support surface in the intersecting direction by all of the plurality of position adjustment mechanisms moving in conjunction with each other.

    Liquid ejection device, program and ejection control method

    公开(公告)号:US11897272B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-13

    申请号:US17294831

    申请日:2019-11-28

    IPC分类号: B41J25/00 B41M7/00

    CPC分类号: B41J25/006 B41M7/0081

    摘要: A liquid ejection device includes: a move control unit configured to move any one of a first element and a second element in a main-scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main-scanning direction, the first element including a plurality of ejectors to eject active energy ray curable liquid and an active energy ray irradiator, the second element including an object to which the liquid is ejected; and a control unit configured to perform control to cause a first ejector to eject a first ejection amount of liquid, cure the first ejection amount of liquid, cause a second ejector to eject a second ejection amount of liquid onto the cured first ejection amount of liquid, and cure the second ejection amount of liquid. The first ejection amount and the second ejection amount are different from each other.

    Head adjustment device, head device, and printing apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11872809B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-16

    申请号:US17475317

    申请日:2021-09-14

    IPC分类号: B41J2/045 B41J25/00

    CPC分类号: B41J2/04505 B41J25/001

    摘要: To provide a head adjustment device, a head device, and a printing apparatus with which it is possible to perform automatic position adjustment of a head module in a head including one or more head modules. Provided is a head adjustment device (150) which adjusts a position of a head module in a head including one or more head modules, the head adjustment device (150) including an adjustment unit that includes an actuator that is connected to an adjustment member, which is operated in a case where the position of the head module is to be adjusted, and operates the adjustment member, a movement unit (248) that moves the adjustment unit relative to the head, and a movement control unit (244) that sets coordinates to be applied to the movement unit based on a reference position of the head module and moves the adjustment unit based on coordinate values of the adjustment member.

    Control system, and medium
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11813857B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-14

    申请号:US17678618

    申请日:2022-02-23

    IPC分类号: B41J19/20 B41J25/00

    摘要: There is provided control system including: movement mechanism configured so that the movement mechanism is driven by motor; detector configured to detect position and speed of the movable member; and controller. The controller is configured to: control the motor so that the movement mechanism reciprocatively moves the movable member; and in a course to move the movable member to a returning point, control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the speed of the movable member so that the movable member is moved at a constant speed until a deceleration start point of time, and control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the position of the movable member so that the movable member is decelerated from the deceleration start point of time and stops at the returning point in accordance with a target position locus.