An inkjet printer that can reduce abrasion of an absorber and a wiper with removal of wiper ink as much as possible, and can prevent adverse effects caused by abrasion powder thereof is provided. When a wiper at a standby position is lifted, an upper surface of the wiper is brought into contact with an absorber above the standby position, and wiper ink adhering to the upper surface of the wiper is absorbed by the absorber and removed. At this time, the wiper and the absorber are not rubbed against each other. Thus, abrasion of the wiper and the absorber can be reduced as much as possible.
A printing device includes a roll holder to support a recording medium roll so as to be rotatable in a front-rear direction, a support table that is higher than the roll holder and supports the recording medium drawn from the medium roll, a print head, a conveyor to transfer the recording medium forward on the support table to draw the recording medium from the medium roll and transfer the recording medium rearward on the support table to pull back the recording medium toward the roll holder, and a receiver that is lower than and spaced away from a transfer path of the recording medium extending from the medium roll to the support table along which the recording medium is drawn from the medium roll and transferred. The receiver is capable of receiving the pulled-back recording medium, and includes a receiving portion that slopes downward while extending forward or rearward.
A printer includes a rolled medium holder to hold a rolled medium that is a band-shaped medium wound into a cylindrical form, and a supporting table to support the medium pulled out rearward from the rolled medium holder. The rolled medium holder includes a rotation shaft extending in a right-left direction and inserted into or through the rolled medium, and a flange provided on at least one end portion of the rotation shaft. A central axis of the rotation shaft is rearward of a front end of the supporting table. A front end of the flange is forward of the front end of the supporting table.
A cap device, which is provided in a printer device and capable of blocking an ink ejection port, includes a casing body including a casing bottom portion and a casing wall portion, a top surface of the casing body being open, a cap assembly integrally supported by the casing body and including a cap support and a cap body capable of covering the ink ejection port, and an engaging portion that allows the casing body and the cap assembly to be attached to and detached from a cap mounting portion.
An ink cartridge includes a box body including a bottomed box main body with an aperture on the top surface and a lid covering the aperture, a bag body fixed inside the box main body and including ink inside, a plate including at least one folded portion and a first flat portion and a second flat portion defined by a fold at the folded portion, the bag body is adhered to an upper surface of the first flat portion, and when the box body is closed, an end of the second flat portion is in contact with a corner of the box main body and the lid, and the first flat portion is in contact with the bottom surface of the box main body.
In a printer including a cutting head, a coupling mechanism includes a magnet, a first support provided on one of a print carriage and a cut carriage and supporting the magnet, and an adsorption body provided on the other of the print carriage and the cut carriage and adsorbable to the magnet. The first support includes a support portion supporting the magnet, an attachment portion attachable to the one of the print carriage and the cut carriage, and a reinforcing portion connected with the support portion and the attachment portion, and is rotatable around a first axial line extending in a first perpendicular direction crossing a main scanning direction perpendicularly, with respect to the one of the print carriage and the cut carriage.
An ink cartridge includes a box-shaped case main body including side walls and an opened upper portion, a plate-shaped cover attachably/detachably covering an opening of the case main body and including cover side walls on long sides, inserted into insides of main body side walls on long sides of the case main body in a mounted state, and a replaceable ink bag. The cover includes, on the cover side walls on the two long sides, engagement claws protruding toward the main body side walls facing in the mounted state. The case main body includes, on the main body side walls, engagement holes engageable with the engagement claws, and slide portions including inclined surfaces extending in a long-side direction and inclined upward, near the engagement holes on inside surfaces of the main body side walls, to slide and guide the engagement claws during attachment/detachment of the cover.
A printer device includes a carriage that is linearly movable and includes an ink ejector, a cap to prevent ink from drying and movable into contact with the ink ejector, and a shutter assembly to cover the cap when the ink ejector is separated from the cap. The shutter assembly includes a shutter body to open and close an upper portion of the cap and a lever connected to the shutter body and able to contact the carriage.
An image formation device includes a recording head which is capable of ejecting droplets from a nozzle, a cap to elevate a nozzle surface of the nozzle in a sealable manner, a camshaft, a first cam in the camshaft, and a motor to drive the camshaft. The camshaft is rotatable in a first rotation angle range from a reference point in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction by using a position in a rotation direction when the cap is located at a lowest position as the reference point. The first cam is operable to raise the cap as the camshaft rotates in the first rotation angle range from the reference point
A printer includes a roll paper holder to hold a roll paper, and a support holder to support the roll paper holder such that the roll paper holder is detachable and rotatable. The roll paper holder includes a rotation shaft, a first flange secured to the rotation shaft, a second flange provided on the rotation shaft, and a positioning flange provided on the rotation shaft and located at a predetermined position to the right of the first flange. The support holder includes a position determiner including an insertion hole housing a portion of the positioning flange in a state where the roll paper holder is rotatably supported and also including a restriction wall partitioning the insertion hole and restricting the positioning flange from moving in a main scanning direction.
A processing system includes a processing device including a support surface to support a processing target and including identification marks having a reference positional relationship, and a controller. The controller is configured or programmed to include an acquirer to acquire a captured image of the support surface captured by an imaging device and including the identification marks and the processing target supported by the support surface, an identifier to identify positions of the identification marks in an orientation of the captured image, a converter to convert the orientation of the captured image such that a positional relationship among the identification marks in the captured image becomes the reference positional relationship to provide a converted captured image, and a display controller to display the converted captured image and a processing image showing contents of processing to be performed on the processing target in an overlapping manner.
An inkjet printer includes an ink head including a nozzle surface with nozzles, and an attachment portion to enable attachment or detachment of an ink refill container storing ink to be ejected from the nozzles or a washing liquid refill container storing a washing liquid usable to wash the nozzle surface. The attachment portion includes a housing to accommodate the ink refill container or the washing liquid refill container, a connection portion provided inside the housing and connectable with the ink refill container or the washing liquid refill container, and a tray provided in the housing and below the connection portion.
A processing system includes a support table with a support surface to support a processing target and including a type mark that includes information on a type of processing, and a controller configured or programmed to include a storage to store a processing image showing contents of processing for each type of processing, an acquirer to acquire a captured image of the support surface including the type mark, an identifier to identify the type of processing included in the type mark in the captured image, a processing image acquirer to acquire a processing image corresponding to the type of processing identified by the identifier as an identified processing image, and a display controller to display the captured image and the identified processing image in an overlapping manner.
In a light radiation device including an upstream radiation portion, a middle radiation portion and a downstream radiation portion, the upstream radiation portion overlaps a nozzle array in a transportation direction. A controller includes a path controller to control a path operation of ejecting ink from the nozzle array onto a medium while moving a recording head and the light radiation device in a scanning direction, a transportation controller to control a transportation operation of, after the path operation, transporting the medium downstream in the transportation direction by a distance shorter than a length in the transportation direction of the nozzle array, and a first light radiation controller to control the light radiation device, during the path operation by the path controller, to turn on the upstream radiation portion and the downstream radiation portion and to turn off the middle radiation portion.
A printer includes a conveyor to convey a medium placed on a table, an ink head including a first nozzle group to discharge a first ultraviolet curable ink and a second nozzle group to discharge a second ultraviolet curable ink before or after the first ultraviolet curable ink is discharged, and mounted on a carriage, an ultraviolet irradiator on the carriage to irradiate the ultraviolet curable inks discharged onto the medium with ultraviolet light, and an attachment structure including fixing portions to fix the ultraviolet irradiator. A position of the ultraviolet irradiator with respect to the carriage is changeable by selecting one of the fixing portions depending on whether a conveying direction of the table is unidirectional or bidirectional.
An adhering ink absorption mechanism for a wiper cleaner that facilitates mounting of an ink absorber and replacement of the ink absorber, includes an ink absorber to absorb ink adhering to a wiper by being brought into contact with the wiper, and an ink absorber supporting portion to support the ink absorber at an upper position of the wiper in a state where a contact region with the wiper is released to enable the wiper to be brought into contact with the ink absorber from below by a lifting operation. The ink absorber has a flat plate shape, and includes a placed portion placed on and supported by the ink absorber supporting portion, and an extension region portion bent at an edge of the placed portion and extending downward.
A printer includes an ink head including a nozzle surface, a wiper to wipe the nozzle surface at a first position, a remover to remove an attachment upon contacting the wiper at a second position, an applier to apply a cleaning fluid to the wiper at a third position, a mover to move the wiper to the first to third positions, and a controller configured or programmed to include a first prior removal controller to bring the wiper into contact with the remover at the second position, an application controller to cause the applier to apply the cleaning fluid to the wiper at the third position after control has been exercised by the first prior removal controller, and a first wiping controller to wipe the nozzle surface with the wiper at the first position after control has been exercised by the application controller.
A processing device includes a support table to support a sheet medium, a sheet cutter to cut the medium supported on the support table, a cutter holder to move the sheet cutter in a toward-away direction in which the sheet cutter moves toward and away from the support table, and a cutter transporter to move the cutter holder in a cutting direction that is orthogonal to a transport direction of the medium. The cutter holder includes a holder movable in the toward-away direction and that holds the sheet cutter, an actuator including a rod that extends or retracts, a link connected to the rod and the holder, and a rotation shaft that rotatably supports the link so that the holder moves in the toward-away direction in response to extension or retraction of the rod.
B65H 35/06 - Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machinesArticle or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers from or with transverse cutters or perforators from or with blade, e.g. shear-blade, cutters or perforators
B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41J 15/04 - Supporting, feeding, or guiding devicesMountings for web rolls or spindles
B41J 15/02 - Web rolls or spindlesAttaching webs to cores or spindles
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
A printer includes a dryer to send an airflow toward a recording medium. The dryer includes a first fan, a second fan, a heater, a first intake port, a first exhaust port with an opening facing toward a platen, a second intake port with an opening facing toward a guide, and a second exhaust port with an opening facing toward the guide. The first fan is operable to draw air through the first intake port, and discharge air toward the platen through the first exhaust port. The second fan is operable to draw air through the second intake port, and discharge air that has been heated by the heater through the second exhaust port.
A printer includes a print carriage including an ink head, a sub-carriage movable relative to the print carriage, a mount surface where a medium is to be mounted, a dryer to dry an ink ejected from the ink head onto the medium. The sub-carriage includes a temperature sensor and is movable relative to the print carriage to measure a temperature on or above the mount surface using the temperature sensor. The dryer is adjusted such that the temperature to be measured approaches a predetermined temperature.
A printer includes a first head including a first nozzle array including first nozzles arranged in a first direction and capable of ejecting a first liquid, a second head including a second nozzle array including second nozzles arranged in the first direction and capable of ejecting a second liquid on the first liquid, a first mover to relatively move the first head, the second head, and a medium in the first direction, and a second mover to move the first head and the second head in a second direction intersecting the first direction. An interval in the first direction between a range of use of the first nozzle array and a range of use of the second nozzle array is changed, while lengths of the range of use of the first nozzle array and the range of use of the second nozzle array in the first direction are respectively maintained.
A damper apparatus includes a damper casing that is movable together with an ink head capable of discharging an ink from a nozzle and includes at least one reservoir chamber capable of reserving therein the ink to be supplied to the ink head and an opening in communication with the reservoir chamber, a damper film to close the opening and being elastically deformable in accordance with a reserved amount of the ink in the reservoir chamber, and at least one pressure detector detachably attached to an external surface of the damper casing to directly detect internal pressure of the reservoir chamber and generate a detection signal.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
24.
Table mover and ink jet printer including the same
A table mover includes a table assembly including a table carriage to support a table, and the table assembly is movable in sub-scanning directions along a first slide rail fixed to a left side frame and a second slide rail fixed to a right side frame. The table carriage includes a first left fixer to which a left fixing bracket coupled to a left slider to be engaged with the first slide rail is fixed and a first right fixer to which a right fixing bracket coupled to a right slider to be engaged with a second slide rail is fixed. The first left fixer is elastically deformable in main scanning directions relative to the left side frame.
A test image printer of an inkjet printer causes a test image, including a mark with a predefined shape and usable to correct an image captured by an image capturing device, and a test pattern usable to inspect a plurality of nozzles, to be printed on a recording medium. An image capture controller controls the image capturing device to capture an image of the test image printed on the recording medium. A corrector compares the image of the mark captured by the image capturing device, to the predefined shape of the mark, to calculate a correction value, and corrects the image of the test pattern, captured by the image capturing device, based on the calculated correction value. An inspector inspects the plurality of nozzles based on the image of the test pattern corrected by the corrector.
An inkjet printer includes an ink head, a carriage, and a first discharge controller. The ink head discharges photo-curable ink onto a recording medium. The ink head includes a colored ink nozzle group to discharge colored photo-curable ink, and a transparent ink nozzle group to discharge transparent photo-curable ink. The carriage is equipped with the ink head. The first discharge controller is configured or programmed to, when either one of the carriage and the recording medium makes a single movement, cause the colored ink nozzle group and the transparent ink nozzle group to discharge the colored photo-curable ink and the transparent photo-curable ink, respectively, onto a predetermined region so as to form a colored image and a texture image. The texture image includes the colored photo-curable ink and the transparent photo-curable ink that overlap with each other.
A printer includes a platen to support a medium, a conveyor to convey the medium supported by the platen from an upstream side toward a downstream side in conveyance directions, a tension bar, and a floating bar. The tension bar is downstream of the platen in the conveyance directions and positioned such that a lower surface of the medium conveyed from the platen to the downstream side in the conveyance directions contacts the tension bar. The floating bar is downstream of the platen in the conveyance directions and upstream of the tension bar in the conveyance directions and positioned such that an upper surface of the medium located between the platen and the tension bar contacts the floating bar, and has a center axis freely movable by a predetermined degree.
A three-dimensional printing device includes a printing tank to accommodate a powder material and including an opening in at least a portion thereof, and an ejector facing the opening of the printing tank to eject a curing liquid to cure the powder material toward the opening. The ejector includes nozzle strings each including nozzles side by side in a first direction. The nozzles each eject the curing liquid and are located in each of the nozzle strings at a density of about 1200 dpi or lower in the first direction. The nozzle strings are spaced away from each other by a distance of about 5 mm or longer in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
B29C 64/165 - Processes of additive manufacturing using a combination of solid and fluid materials, e.g. a powder selectively bound by a liquid binder, catalyst, inhibitor or energy absorber
B29C 64/255 - Enclosures for the building material, e.g. powder containers
B29C 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
B33Y 30/00 - Apparatus for additive manufacturingDetails thereof or accessories therefor
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
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Medical instrument displays and medical instrument display programs
A medical instrument display includes an image storage that stores a plurality of image data of a medical instrument, a data analyzer that searches a plurality of image data stored in the image storage on a certain condition, and a display controller that causes a display to display a first medical instrument image that has been selected from thumbnail images, the thumbnail images being based on a plurality of the image data obtained by the search, and a second medical instrument image in good order, the second medical instrument image being different from the first medical instrument image.
G16H 40/40 - ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilitiesICT specially adapted for the management or operation of medical equipment or devices for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
G06T 3/40 - Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
A61B 90/00 - Instruments, implements or accessories specially adapted for surgery or diagnosis and not covered by any of the groups , e.g. for luxation treatment or for protecting wound edges
A printer includes a controller to exercise control so as to print a print layer on or over a medium. The print layer includes a first print region including first protrusions, and a second print region including second protrusions. Any one or more of a size, a height, a planar shape, an arrangement interval, and an arrangement direction of the first protrusions is/are different from a corresponding one or more of a size, a height, a planar shape, an arrangement interval, and an arrangement direction of the second protrusions. An extracted area of about 3 cm by about 3 cm is extracted from any location in the print layer. The first and second print regions are in the extracted area. At least either a number of first print regions or a number of second print regions in the extracted area is more than one.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
B41M 5/50 - Recording sheets characterised by the coating used to improve ink, dye or pigment receptivity, e.g. for ink-jet or thermal dye transfer recording
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
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MEDICAL INSTRUMENT DISPLAYS AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENT DISPLAY PROGRAMS
A medical instrument display includes an image storage that stores a plurality of image data of a medical instrument, a data analyzer that searches a plurality of image data stored in the image storage on a certain condition, and a display controller that causes a display to display a first medical instrument image that has been selected from thumbnail images, the thumbnail images being based on a plurality of the image data obtained by the search, and a second medical instrument image in good order, the second medical instrument image being different from the first medical instrument image.
A61B 90/00 - Instruments, implements or accessories specially adapted for surgery or diagnosis and not covered by any of the groups , e.g. for luxation treatment or for protecting wound edges
G16H 40/40 - ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilitiesICT specially adapted for the management or operation of medical equipment or devices for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
G06T 3/40 - Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
A printer includes an ink head including a nozzle, a damper connected with the ink head, a pressure sensor to detect a damper pressure in the damper, a cap attachable to the ink head so as to cover the nozzle, an upward/downward moving mechanism to move the cap upward and downward with respect to the ink head, a suction pump connected with the cap, and a controller. The controller is configured or programmed to include a suction controller to execute a suction process to drive the suction pump in a state where the cap is attached to the ink head, a pressure acquisition controller to acquire the damper pressure from the pressure sensor during the suction process, and an upward/downward movement controller to control the cap to move upward toward the ink head when a change amount of the damper pressure is no larger than a reference change amount.
A printing apparatus includes a carriage, a carriage mover including a motor to move the carriage, a motor controller configured to control the motor, a power supply configured to selectively apply a first voltage or a second voltage to the motor controller, the second voltage being higher than the first voltage, and a transmitter to transmit a control signal for movement of the carriage when a predetermined control condition is satisfied. The first voltage is a voltage enabling the motor controller to move the carriage at a first speed by the motor. The second voltage is a voltage enabling the motor controller to move the carriage at a second speed by the motor, the second speed being higher than the first speed. The power supply applies the first voltage to the motor controller in a state where the transmitter transmits the control signal.
A printer includes a first guide disposed downstream of a platen in a sub-scanning direction to guide movement of a recording medium, a second guide disposed below the first guide and downstream of the first guide in the sub-scanning direction to guide movement of the recording medium, and a dryer facing the first guide and the second guide to send air toward the recording medium. The dryer includes a body case including an outlet port that is open toward the second guide, a fan to send air toward the recording medium through the outlet port, and a heater to heat air sent by the fan. The first guide has a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of the second guide.
A medium transportation device includes a support table to support a medium, and a conveyor to transport the medium supported by the support table in a transportation direction. The conveyor includes a driving roller, a rail, and a pinch roller assembly. The driving roller is provided on the support table, extends in a perpendicular direction that is perpendicular to the transportation direction, and is rotatable in the transportation direction. The rail faces the support table and extends in the perpendicular direction. The pinch roller assembly is in engagement with the rail so as to be movable in the perpendicular direction along the rail. The rail includes shorter rails arranged along a line extending in the perpendicular direction.
A printer includes a driving roller to move a medium supported on a support table in a predetermined transportation direction, and pinch roller assemblies each including a pinch roller, a support to support the pinch roller to allow the pinch roller to contact, or to be spaced from, the driving roller, and an actuator provided upstream in the transportation direction with respect to the pinch roller. The actuator includes a contact portion contactable with the support, and an operation portion to press the contact portion to the support to move the pinch roller in a direction away from the driving roller.
An inkjet printer includes a support table supporting a waste liquid tank and being displaceable in accordance with a weight of the waste liquid tank, a first sensor to detect that the support table has reached a first position, a second sensor to detect that the support table has reached a second position, a first determinator to determine that the waste liquid tank is in a near-end state when the support table is detected by the first sensor to have reached the first position, and a notifier to notify a user of the near-end state when the first determinator determines that the waste liquid tank is in the near-end state.
In a light radiation device including an upstream radiation portion, a middle radiation portion and a downstream radiation portion, the upstream radiation portion overlaps a nozzle array in a transportation direction. A controller includes a path controller to control a path operation of ejecting ink from the nozzle array onto a medium while moving a recording head and the light radiation device in a scanning direction, a transportation controller to control a transportation operation of, after the path operation, transporting the medium downstream in the transportation direction by a distance shorter than a length in the transportation direction of the nozzle array, and a first light radiation controller to control the light radiation device, during the path operation by the path controller, to turn on the upstream radiation portion and the downstream radiation portion and to turn off the middle radiation portion.
A printer includes a supporting table to support a recording medium, a recording head located above the supporting table to eject ink toward the supporting table, a first contact detector located above the supporting table and lower than the recording head, an oscillator to vibrate the first contact detector, and a vibration detector to detect vibration of the first contact detector and transmit a signal corresponding to the detected vibration. The printer stores a threshold related to the vibration of the first contact detector and determines that an object has come into contact with the first contact detector when an amount of the vibration detected by the vibration detector is equal to the threshold or less.
A printing jig includes bases to be fitted to a printing apparatus, a first holder fittable to each of the bases, and a second holder fittable to each of the bases. The first holder is able to hold one or more first substrates. The second holder is able to hold one or more second substrates different in size from the first substrate or substrates. The first holder includes a first fitting portion to be fitted to each of the bases. The second holder includes a second fitting portion to be fitted to each of the bases. Each of the bases is structured such that the first fitting portion and the second fitting portion are both fittable thereto.
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
An inkjet printer includes a first light applicator disposed in a second scanning direction relative to a recording head. The first light applicator includes a first upstream light source group at a location corresponding to a location of the recording head in a movement direction of a recording medium, and a first downstream light source group on a downstream side in the movement direction of the recording medium relative to the recording head. The inkjet printer turns off the first upstream light source group and turns on the first downstream light source group during movement of a carriage in a first scanning direction and discharge of first ink from the recording head, and turns on the first upstream light source group and the first downstream light source group during movement of the carriage in the second scanning direction after discharge of the first ink.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
A printer includes an ink head including a nozzle surface on which a nozzle is provided, a wiper extending upward to wipe the nozzle surface, a wiper mover to move the wiper in a sub-scanning direction, a wiper cleaner disposed downstream of a carriage and extending downward to remove ink adhering to the wiper, and a controller configured or programmed to control the wiper mover. The controller is configured or programmed to control the wiper mover such that the nozzle surface is wiped by the wiper after bringing the wiper into contact with the wiper cleaner or to bring the wiper into contact with the wiper cleaner after wiping the nozzle surface by the wiper.
A printer includes: a platen configured to allow a rolled first recording medium and a sheet-like second recording medium to be placed thereon; and a guide table detachably provided on a base member and configured to guide movement of the second recording medium. The platen includes a first platen on which the first recording medium and the second recording medium are placed, and a second platen disposed ahead of the first platen, including an upper surface tilted obliquely downward from the rear toward the front, and configured to guide movement of the first recording medium. The guide table includes a placement portion including a flat upper surface which is located below the first platen and above a portion of the second platen and on which the second recording medium is placed.
An inkjet printer cleaning system includes an inkjet printer and a cleaning unit. The inkjet printer includes an ink head and a table that faces the ink head and on which a substrate is to be placed. The cleaning unit includes an attachment attachable to and removable from the table, and a cleaner that faces the ink head upon attaching of the attachment to the table.
A printer can comprise a supporting wall that extends in a primary scanning direction, a table that is positioned lower than the supporting wall and that is structured so as to be able to move in a secondary scanning direction, a guide rail equipped on the supporting wall that extends in the primary scanning direction, a head carriage that is provided slidably on the guide rail and that can move in the primary scanning direction, an ink head mounted on the head carriage, and a partitioning wall that is positioned lower than the supporting wall and to a side of the table in the primary scanning direction and that extends in the secondary scanning direction and the vertical direction. When the table is positioned at the maximally downstream position along the secondary scanning direction, the upstream end portion of the table is positioned further downstream of the supporting wall and further upstream than the downstream end portion of the partitioning wall.
A printer can comprise an ink head for discharging ink toward a printing medium, and a blowing device for blowing air against the printing medium. The blowing device can comprise a first case that is disposed further rearward, in a direction of movement, than the ink head. The first case can have a first air intake opening for taking in air of the vicinity of the printing medium, a first fan for drawing in air from the first air intake opening and expelling air from a first outlet opening. A second case can be positioned further rearward, in the movement direction Y1, than the first air intake opening, and can have a second air intake opening that opens facing upward and a second fan for drawing in air from the second air intake opening and expelling air toward the printing medium from a second outlet opening. The magnitude of the airflow of the first fan can be less than the magnitude of the airflow of the second fan.
A waste fluid quantity measuring device can comprise a waste fluid tank for recovering a waste fluid, a placement platform on which the total mass of the waste fluid tank acts, a motive force portion for moving at least a portion of the placement platform from a first position to a second position, with a constant force. A sensor can measure a position of the placement platform and a measuring portion can move the placement platform and measure a movement time of the placement platform to the second position, based on a measurement result by the sensor. An evaluating portion can evaluate a state of storage of waste fluid of the waste fluid tank based on the movement time measured by the measuring portion and a correspondence of the movement time and the quantity of waste fluid within the waste fluid tank.
A printer includes an ink head including a nozzle surface including nozzles, a cap including an end portion contactable with the nozzle surface, a suction device, a memory, and a controller. The memory stores a suction position, a free suction position, and a minute open position located between the suction position and the free suction position. The controller performs a suction process in which the cap is located at the suction position and ink is sucked from the nozzles, and a minute open position process in which the cap is moved toward a minute open position and movement of the cap is stopped with the cap located at a minute open position, after the suction process.
A cutting machine can be configured to set a cutting line with respect to a cutting material that is placed on a supporting platform, cut the cutting material along one cutting line that intersect with and changes direction at a second cutting line at a corner portion, leaving a part of the cutting material connected along a predetermined distance from a point of intersection of the corner portion, and cutting along the other cutting line so as to not leave a connected part, up to a predetermined distance from the point of intersection of the corner portion.
An inkjet printer includes a first ink head, an ink collector, and an intermittent flushing controller. The first ink head includes a first sub-head that includes a first nozzle to discharge first ink, a second sub-head that includes a second nozzle to discharge second ink different from the first ink, and a nozzle surface provided with the first nozzle and the second nozzle. The ink collector collects the ink discharged from the first ink head. The intermittent flushing controller performs an intermittent flushing operation for at least the first sub-head. The intermittent flushing operation involves repeating a first operation and a second operation for a predetermined number of iterations. The first operation involves discharging the first ink into the ink collector from the first nozzle a predetermined number of times. The second operation involves being on standby for a predetermined time without discharging the first ink from the first nozzle.
A printer includes a platen on which a recording medium is placed, an ink head including a nozzle that discharges ink onto the recording medium placed on the platen and that moves in a main scanning direction, an upstream guide located on an upstream side of the platen in a secondary scanning direction and that guides the recording medium, the upstream guide including an upper surface tilted obliquely downward from a downstream side to the upstream side in the secondary scanning direction, and grit rollers provided in the platen and that move the recording medium in the secondary scanning direction. The upstream guide is recessed from the upper surface of the upstream guide, and includes a concave recess that indicates a position of each of the grit rollers in the main scanning direction so that a position of the grit roller is easily acknowledged when the recording medium is placed on the platen.
B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
B65H 35/04 - Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machinesArticle or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers from or with transverse cutters or perforators
B65H 29/20 - Delivering or advancing articles from machinesAdvancing articles to or into piles by contact with rotating friction members, e.g. rollers, brushes, or cylinders
A printer includes a medium supplier including a shaft support, to which a supply shaft of a roll medium is detachably attached, a medium temporary placement support located below the shaft support of the medium supplier and that receives and supports the roll medium prior to being attached to the medium supplier, and a conveyor that conveys a medium in a conveyance direction that is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the supply shaft, the medium being unwound from the supply shaft. The medium temporary placement support includes a support bar that extends in the axial direction, and a placement seat supported by the support bar. The placement seat includes a placement surface on which the roll medium is placed and that extends in the conveyance direction, and a curved portion that includes a convex curve in an upstream end portion of the placement surface in the conveyance direction.
A printer includes a main power supply switch to drive a controller, and a sub-power supply switch to enable printing on a recording medium. The controller includes a memory that stores a turn-on frequency of turning on of the sub-power supply per a unit time in a predetermined period of a predetermined first duration, a calculator that calculates a sum of the turn-on frequency in a predetermined second duration for each of predetermined second durations starting at different start times, in the predetermined period, a specifier that specifies, as a specified start time, a start time of the predetermined second duration for which the sum calculated by the calculator is at a maximum, and a cleaner that performs a cleaning operation of discharging ink from at least the nozzles at the specified start time.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
B41J 2/165 - Prevention of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles
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Wiping assembly for liquid ejection head and ink jet printer
A wiping assembly for a liquid ejection head includes a wiper including a first wiper surface facing in a first direction and a second wiper surface facing in a second direction, a wiper cleaner, a mover, and a controller. A protruding portion of the wiper cleaner includes a first cleaning surface facing in the second direction and a second cleaning surface facing in the first direction. The controller controls the mover to move at least one of the wiper and the wiper cleaner in at least one of the first and second directions from a state in which the wiper is located farther in the second direction than the protruding portion to bring the first wiper surface into contact with the first cleaning surface, and to move the at least one of the wiper and the wiper cleaner in at least one of the first and second directions from a state in which the wiper is located farther in the first direction than the protruding portion to bring the second wiper surface into contact with the second cleaning surface.
A pointer includes a case housing an LED device and including a light emission hole through which light from the device is emitted to an external space, a first plate between the device and the light emission hole and including a first light passage hole that allows passage of the light from the device, and a second plate between the first plate and the light emission hole and including a second light passage hole that allows passage of the light having passed through the first light passage hole. The light passage holes and the light emission hole are located on a central axis of the device. The device and the first and second plates are disposed such that H/2
G02B 27/20 - Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups , for optical projection, e.g. combination of mirror and condenser and objective for imaging minute objects, e.g. light-pointer
F21K 9/62 - Optical arrangements integrated in the light source, e.g. for improving the colour rendering index or the light extraction using mixing chambers, e.g. housings with reflective walls
F21V 11/08 - Screens not covered by groups , , or using diaphragms containing one or more apertures
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
F21V 11/12 - Screens not covered by groups , , or using diaphragms containing one or more apertures of slot type
B41J 2/44 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using single radiation source, e.g. lighting beams or shutter arrangements
B41J 2/45 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using arrays of radiation sources using light-emitting diode arrays
F21V 11/10 - Screens not covered by groups , , or using diaphragms containing one or more apertures of iris type
F21K 9/68 - Details of reflectors forming part of the light source
F21V 11/14 - Screens not covered by groups , , or using diaphragms containing one or more apertures with many small apertures
A photo-curing inkjet printer includes a bed, a discharger, a light applicator, and a conveyor. The bed includes a printable region defined in advance. A substrate is placed on the bed. The discharger discharges photo-curable ink. The light applicator applies light. The conveyor conveys one of the bed and the discharger relative to the other one of the bed and the discharger in a conveyance direction. The discharger includes a row of nozzles aligned in the conveyance direction. The nozzles discharge the photo-curable ink. A length of the bed measured from a start end of the bed to a start end of the printable region is longer in the conveyance direction than a length calculated by subtracting a maximum pass width from a length of the row of nozzles of the discharger.
A cutting head-including printer includes at least one driving roller, a pair of side pinch rollers, a center pinch roller provided between the pair of side pinch rollers, and a roller moving mechanism that causes the center pinch roller to approach, or to be separated from, the at least one driving roller. The cutting head-including printer sets whether to perform cutting after printing or to perform the printing after the cutting. During the cutting performed after the printing, the cutting head-including printer separates the center pinch roller from the at least one driving roller. During the cutting performed before the printing, the cutting head-including printer locates the center pinch roller at a position where the center pinch roller holds a recording medium together with the at least one driving roller.
A printing apparatus includes a feeder that feeds a medium in a feeding direction, a head including a row of nozzles arranged side by side in the feeding direction and movable in a scanning direction, an irradiator that radiates light onto a region longer in the feeding direction than the nozzle row and that is movable in the scanning direction together with the head, and a controller that alternatingly causes the head to move in the scanning direction and concurrently the nozzles to discharge ink while causing the irradiator to radiate the light, and the feeder to feed the medium in the feeding direction. The controller is capable of dividing the nozzle row into an upstream-side nozzle row and a downstream-side nozzle row located on a downstream side in the feeding direction from the upstream-side nozzle row, and individually controlling discharge of ink from the nozzles of each of the upstream-side nozzle row and the downstream-side nozzle row. The controller is capable of dividing the irradiator into an upstream-side irradiator, an intermediate irradiator adjacent to the upstream-side irradiator on a downstream side in the feeding direction, and a printless region irradiator adjacent to the intermediate irradiator on a downstream side in the feeding direction, and individually controlling lighting and extinguishing of each of the irradiators defined by the division.
B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
B41J 2/04 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand
B41J 11/44 - Controlling by devices, e.g. programme tape or contact wheel, moved in correspondence with movement of paper-feeding devices, e.g. platen rotation
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Medical instrument displays and medical instrument display programs
A medical instrument display includes an image storage that stores a plurality of image data of a medical instrument, a data analyzer that searches a plurality of image data stored in the image storage on a certain condition, and a display controller that causes a display to display a first medical instrument image that has been selected from thumbnail images, the thumbnail images being based on a plurality of the image data obtained by the search, and a second medical instrument image in good order, the second medical instrument image being different from the first medical instrument image.
A61B 90/00 - Instruments, implements or accessories specially adapted for surgery or diagnosis and not covered by any of the groups , e.g. for luxation treatment or for protecting wound edges
G06F 16/21 - Design, administration or maintenance of databases
G06T 3/40 - Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
G16H 40/40 - ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilitiesICT specially adapted for the management or operation of medical equipment or devices for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
A clamp includes first and second rising portions that rise from a base portion, a first extending portion extending along a first top surface of a table from the first rising portion, a second extending portion extending along a second top surface of the table from the second rising portion, a first clamp portion to urge a medium toward the first top surface, and a second clamp portion to urge the medium toward the second top surface. A gap located above a groove in the table is provided between the first clamp portion and the second clamp portion.
B26D 1/10 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member wherein the cutting member reciprocates in, or substantially in, a direction parallel to the cutting edge
B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
B26D 7/02 - Means for holding or positioning work with clamping means
B26D 7/06 - Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form
A printer capable includes a pivot mechanism that causes a first ink cartridge housing a first ink pack containing sedimentation ink to pivot. A controller includes a memory storing first data defining a relationship between a determined ink agitation degree and a pivot angle of the ink cartridge from an initial position, an angle determiner that determines a pivot angle based on the determined ink agitation degree and the first data, and a first controller that controls the pivot mechanism to cause the first ink cartridge to pivot by the determined pivot angle and move to a pivot position, and then cause the first ink cartridge to pivot in the opposite direction and return to the initial position. A first pivot angle when the ink agitation degree is less than a first value is smaller than a second pivot angle when the ink agitation degree is the first value or more.
A printer includes a first cartridge holder including a first insertion port in which a first ink cartridge housing a first ink pack charged with a sedimentation ink is inserted and which is open horizontally, the first cartridge holder housing the inserted first ink cartridge, a first shaft pivotably supporting the first cartridge holder, a first driving mechanism that causes the first cartridge holder to pivot about the first shaft, and a controller that controls the first driving mechanism. The controller includes a first controller that controls the first driving mechanism to cause the first cartridge holder to pivot and agitate the sedimentation ink contained in the first ink pack.
A printing system includes a print manager that creates a job list and a printer that preforms printing on a target printing material, based on the job list. The print manager includes a continuous printing information provider that gives continuous printing information to each of print jobs. The printer includes a continuous printing determiner to continuously start, if specified by the continuous print information of the print job to perform continuous printing, printing of a next one of the print jobs, and, not to start, if specified by the continuous print information of the print job not to perform continuous printing, printing of the next one of the print jobs.
A printer includes a head that injects a liquid, a cleaning mechanism, a waste liquid path, a waste liquid tank that is detachably attached and collects waste liquid, a displaceable member that is displaced to a first position when the waste liquid tank is attached and is displaced to a second position when the waste liquid tank is detached, a liquid receiving portion that is provided on the displaceable member and is located directly below an outlet of the waste liquid path when the waste liquid tank is not attached, a detection target that is provided on the displaceable member and moves together with the displaceable member, and a sensor that detects the detection target.
A thermal transfer apparatus includes a fixture, a foil securing film, a film retainer, a foil transfer tool, and a carriage conveyor. The fixture retains a transfer object. The foil securing film is disposed above the fixture. The foil securing film allows light to pass therethrough. The foil securing film presses, from above, a thermal transfer foil on the transfer object so as to secure the thermal transfer foil onto the transfer object. The film retainer retains the foil securing film. The film retainer moves the foil securing film in an up-down direction relative to the fixture. The foil transfer tool presses the foil securing film and the thermal transfer foil on the transfer object. The foil transfer tool emits light to the foil securing film. The carriage conveyor moves the foil transfer tool relative to the fixture.
B41M 5/382 - Contact transfer or sublimation processes
B41M 5/46 - Thermography characterised by the base, intermediate or covering layersHeat, radiation filtering or absorbing means or layersThermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registrationSpecial originals for reproduction by thermography characterised by the light-to-heat converting meansThermography characterised by the base, intermediate or covering layersHeat, radiation filtering or absorbing means or layersThermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registrationSpecial originals for reproduction by thermography characterised by the heat or radiation filtering or absorbing means or layers
A printer includes a first holding shaft holding side pinch rollers and at least one center pinch roller, grit rollers moving a recording medium while holding the recording medium together with the side pinch rollers and together with the center pinch roller, and a rotator rotating the first holding shaft to cause the side pinch rollers and the center pinch roller to approach, or to be separated from, the grit rollers. The center pinch roller is movable in a direction to be separated from the recording medium, independently from the side pinch rollers.
An inkjet printer includes an air blower that blows air toward a recording medium and includes a case including an outlet opening through which external air, taken inside through an inlet opening, is discharged outside, and an opening in a portion facing a table. The case is located at least to one side of an ink head in a main scanning direction. The air blower further includes a fan that is located in the case and sends air through the outlet opening toward the recording medium placed on the table, a heater that is located in the case and heats the air sent from the fan, and a heat radiation layer that is exposed outside through the opening and radiates at least a portion of heat generated by the heater.
A foil transfer device includes a light emitter that emits light, a driver that causes scanning to be performed with the light by moving one or both of an irradiator and a substrate relative to each other, the irradiator casting the light emitted by the light emitter, and a controller that causes the light emitter to change power of the light according to a velocity indication value during at least one of an acceleration period from a time when at least one of the irradiator and the substrate begins to move to a time when a velocity thereof becomes constant and a deceleration period from a time when the velocity is constant to a time when at least one of the irradiator and the substrate stops.
B41M 5/46 - Thermography characterised by the base, intermediate or covering layersHeat, radiation filtering or absorbing means or layersThermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registrationSpecial originals for reproduction by thermography characterised by the light-to-heat converting meansThermography characterised by the base, intermediate or covering layersHeat, radiation filtering or absorbing means or layersThermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registrationSpecial originals for reproduction by thermography characterised by the heat or radiation filtering or absorbing means or layers
B41J 2/44 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using single radiation source, e.g. lighting beams or shutter arrangements
B41M 5/382 - Contact transfer or sublimation processes
B41J 2/005 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
A printing apparatus includes an ink head, a carriage, and a cap. The ink head includes a nozzle surface provided with a nozzle to discharge ink onto a recording medium. The carriage is equipped with the ink head, and disposed above a platen. The carriage is movable in a main scanning direction. The cap defines an enclosed space between the cap and the nozzle surface when the cap is attached to the ink head. The carriage includes a facing surface facing the platen and a guard provided on the facing surface to protrude downward. The guard is provided with a reference surface that positions the ink head and the cap relative to each other.
A controller includes a cutter movement controller that controls a value of an electric current to flow in a voice coil motor to apply a first electromagnetic force to a holder in a downward direction for a first time duration, then to apply the first electromagnetic force to the holder in an upward direction for a second time duration shorter than the first time duration, to pause the supply of the electric current to the voice coil motor for a third time duration longer than the second time duration, then to apply a third electromagnetic force, which is smaller than, or equal to, the first electromagnetic force and is an electromagnetic force applied to cut a cutting target, to the holder in the downward direction for a fourth time duration longer than the first time duration, and thus to cause a cutter to contact the cutting target, and a cutting controller that, after a predetermined time duration from the time when the electric current starts to flow in the voice coil motor, controls a carriage and a conveyor to start cutting the cutting target.
B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
B26D 5/08 - Means for actuating the cutting member to effect the cut
B26D 1/06 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member wherein the cutting member reciprocates
B26D 5/20 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed
B65H 35/06 - Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machinesArticle or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers from or with transverse cutters or perforators from or with blade, e.g. shear-blade, cutters or perforators
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Medical tool work support system, medical tool work support method, and medical tool work support program
A medical tool work support system, a medical tool work support method, and a medical tool work support program alleviate a workload on a user. The medical tool work support system includes a display, a memory that stores data indicating a work procedure on a medical tool in a work step to be performed for surgery using the medical tool, and a display controller that causes the display to display the work procedure based on the data stored in the memory.
A61B 34/00 - Computer-aided surgeryManipulators or robots specially adapted for use in surgery
G16H 40/40 - ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilitiesICT specially adapted for the management or operation of medical equipment or devices for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
A61L 2/24 - Apparatus using programmed or automatic operation
A61B 50/30 - Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments
G16H 20/40 - ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
G16H 40/20 - ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilitiesICT specially adapted for the management or operation of medical equipment or devices for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
A61B 90/98 - Identification means for patients or instruments, e.g. tags using electromagnetic means, e.g. transponders
G16H 40/63 - ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilitiesICT specially adapted for the management or operation of medical equipment or devices for the operation of medical equipment or devices for local operation
A printer includes a first ink head including first nozzles arranged in a sub-scanning direction and a first nozzle surface on which the first nozzles are disposed, a second ink head disposed at a side of the first ink head in a main scanning direction and including second nozzles arranged in the sub-scanning direction and disposed partially at a position identical to a position of a portion of the first nozzles in the sub-scanning direction and a second nozzle surface on which the second nozzles are disposed, a first wiper that wipes the first nozzle surface at a first wiping position, and a second wiper that wipes the second nozzle surface at a second wiping position.
An inkjet printer composes a first dot group including a first base dot group from ink dots of a first ink, and a second dot group including a second base dot group and a second additional dot group from ink dots of a second ink having a weaker color developing capability than the first ink. A total proportion of the first dot group with respect to the ink dots of the first ink is set to be a first print coverage greater than or equal to 100%. A total proportion of the second dot group with respect to the ink dots of the second ink is set to be a second print coverage greater than the first print coverage. Ink dots including the second additional dot group form a first print layer, and ink dots including the first base dot group and the second base dot group form a second print layer over or under the first print layer.
B41J 2/205 - Ink jet for printing a discrete number of tones
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
A diaphragm pump includes a pump chamber, a diaphragm, and a diaphragm deformer. The pump chamber is box-shaped and includes at least an inlet opening, an outlet opening, and a diaphragm attaching opening. The pump chamber is provided with an inner space. A diaphragm is made of an elastically deformable material, and is provided in the pump chamber so as to cover the diaphragm attaching opening. The diaphragm deformer elastically deforms the diaphragm to change a capacity of the inner space. The outlet opening is located at a highest position in the inner space of the pump chamber.
A thermal transfer light pen and a thermal transfer apparatus favorably perform thermal transfer even using light as a heat source to a thermal transfer sheet and performing thermal transfer to a transfer object with an uneven surface. A thermal transfer light pen includes a hollow pen body including a front end portion, a pressing body in the front end portion of the pen body and including a curved surface projecting toward a front end, a light guide including a first end and a second end, at least a portion of the light guide inside the pen body, and a light source connected to the first end of the light guide. The second end of the light guide is disposed in the front end portion of the pen body and faces the pressing body in the pen body. The pressing body is made of a material transparent to light emitted from the light source.
B41J 2/48 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material for heating selectively melting ink on a film or melting ink granules
B44C 1/24 - Pressing or stamping ornamental design on surfaces
B41J 13/10 - Sheet holders, retainers, or stationary guides
B41J 2/32 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads
B41M 5/46 - Thermography characterised by the base, intermediate or covering layersHeat, radiation filtering or absorbing means or layersThermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registrationSpecial originals for reproduction by thermography characterised by the light-to-heat converting meansThermography characterised by the base, intermediate or covering layersHeat, radiation filtering or absorbing means or layersThermography combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registrationSpecial originals for reproduction by thermography characterised by the heat or radiation filtering or absorbing means or layers
B41J 2/325 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
A printer includes a carriage, a carriage moving mechanism including a motor, a motor driver that controls the motor, a stop instruction device, and an interlock device. The stop instruction device transmits a stop signal for the carriage or stops a driving permission signal for the carriage when a predetermined stop condition is satisfied. The interlock device is interposed between the motor and the motor driver and shuts off the motor from the motor driver after a lapse of a predetermined delay time of transmitting the stop signal or stopping the driving permission signal. The motor driver controls the motor to decelerate the carriage in at least a portion of a period before the delay time has elapsed.
A drive signal generator of an inkjet printer includes a first electronic component that generates a greater amount of heat than a second electronic component. A heat sink includes wall members and first and second ends. The wall members include first and second wall members having an outer wall. The heat sink has a tubular shape defined by the wall members and is open at the first and second ends. A portion of a cooling fan faces the first end of the heat sink, and another portion of the cooling fan protrudes at least from the first end toward the first wall member. The first electronic component is in contact with the outer wall of the first wall member, and the second electronic component is in contact with the outer wall of the second wall member.
B41J 2/37 - Print density control by compensation for variation in current
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
H05K 7/20 - Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating
An inkjet printer injects first ink of a plurality of colors and second ink. An extraction condition setter sets an extraction condition to extract a portion of, or an entirety of, ink dots of the first ink of each of the plurality of colors. An extractor extracts an underlying layer dot group from ink dots of the first ink of each of the plurality of colors based on the extraction condition. Such a plurality of underlying layer dot groups and ink dots of the second ink form a first printing layer. An image dot group including at least the ink dots, of the first ink, other than the underlying dot groups forms at least one additional printing layer.
An inkjet printer ejects a first ink of a plurality of colors and a second ink. An extractor extracts an underlying layer dot group from ink dots of the first ink of each of the plurality of colors. Such underlying layer dot groups and ink dots of the second ink form a first printing layer. An image dot group including at least the ink dots, of the first ink, other than the underlying dot groups forms at least one additional printing layer. The underlying dot groups are each extracted from the ink dots of the first ink of the corresponding color based on a predetermined extraction ratio.
An inkjet printer includes an m number of data setters ranging from a first data setter to an m-th data setter, and an m number of print controllers ranging from a first print controller to an m-th print controller, where m is a natural number greater than or equal to 2. Upon receiving data for ink dots, an n-th data setter sets an n-th dot group including some or all of the ink dots, where n is a natural number in a range of from 2 to m. An n-th print controller causes the n-th dot group to be formed over an (n−1) dot group. The first to the m-th data setters set the first to the m-th dot groups so that at least some of ink dots belonging to the first to the m-th dot groups overlap each other.
In a method for forming braille text on a recording medium, the braille text includes a plurality of cells with one or more dots included in each cell, and at least one of the cells includes a plurality of dots. The method includes discharging a photocurable ink onto the recording medium and curing with light the discharged photocurable ink, to form a print layer on the recording medium, and discharging a photocurable ink onto the print layer and curing with light the discharged photocurable ink, to form at least one additional print layer on the print layer. Resultant braille text is formed by the print layer and the at least one additional print layer, and the resultant braille text has an intra-cell dot-to-dot spacing of about 0.38 mm or more and about 1.32 mm or less.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B29C 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
B41J 3/32 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for printing in Braille or with keyboards specially adapted for use by blind or disabled persons
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
H04N 1/27 - Reproducing arrangements involving production of a magnetic intermediate picture
An inkjet printer includes a print controller and a print mode setter. The print controller causes one or a plurality of print layers to be printed on a recording medium. The one or the plurality of print layers may include one or both of a special color ink layer and a process color ink layer. The special color ink layer includes ink dots of a special color ink, and the process color ink layer includes ink dots of the process color ink. The print mode setter is programmed and/or configured to be able to set a multi-layer print mode in which three or more layers including both of the special color ink layer and the process color ink layer are printed.
In an inkjet printer capable of performing an overprint process by feeding only in a first direction while reducing clogging of nozzles, a controller includes first, second and third controllers. The third controller instructs the first controller to perform a first image-printing scan, a first minute feed and a second image-printing scan without discharging an image ink from a first nozzle at an end portion of a first nozzle row in a first direction along a secondary scan direction; then performs a second minute feed of feeding a recording medium in the first direction along the secondary scan direction relative to a discharge head; and then instructs the second controller to perform a first base-printing scan, a first minute feed and a second base-printing scan without discharging a base ink from a second nozzle at an end portion of a second nozzle row in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, along the secondary scan direction.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
B41J 2/155 - Arrangement thereof for line printing
B41J 19/14 - Character- or line-spacing mechanisms with means for effecting line or character spacing in either direction
B41J 25/00 - Actions or mechanisms not otherwise provided for
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Powder comprising PVA resin particles for layer manufacturing and layered shaped article
The present invention provides a powder for layer manufacturing including non-hydratable matrix particles, and water-soluble adhesive particles. The powder for layer manufacturing includes, as the water-soluble adhesive particles, polyvinyl alcohol resin particles with a saponification degree of 86.5 mol % to 89.0 mol %, an average degree of polymerization of 400 to 600, a viscosity of a 4 mass % aqueous solution at 20° C. of 4.6 mPa to 5.4 mPa, and an average particle diameter of 20 μm to 60 μm.
B32B 5/16 - Layered products characterised by the non-homogeneity or physical structure of a layer characterised by features of a layer formed of particles, e.g. chips, chopped fibres, powder
B29C 64/165 - Processes of additive manufacturing using a combination of solid and fluid materials, e.g. a powder selectively bound by a liquid binder, catalyst, inhibitor or energy absorber
B22F 1/00 - Metallic powderTreatment of metallic powder, e.g. to facilitate working or to improve properties
C09J 129/04 - Polyvinyl alcoholPartially hydrolysed homopolymers or copolymers of esters of unsaturated alcohols with saturated carboxylic acids
C22C 1/04 - Making non-ferrous alloys by powder metallurgy
B22F 3/00 - Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sinteringApparatus specially adapted therefor
B33Y 70/00 - Materials specially adapted for additive manufacturing
B33Y 80/00 - Products made by additive manufacturing
C09D 129/04 - Polyvinyl alcoholPartially hydrolysed homopolymers or copolymers of esters of unsaturated alcohols with saturated carboxylic acids
B22F 3/105 - Sintering only by using electric current, laser radiation or plasma
An inkjet printer ejects a first ink including multiple colors and a second ink. A controller generates dot groups including an underlying layer dot group and an image dot group from ink dots of the first ink of each of the colors. The dot groups of each of the colors include all of the ink dots of the corresponding color. The controller forms a first printing layer of at least the ink dots of the underlying layer dot group of each of the colors and ink dots of the second ink. The controller forms a second printing layer of at least the ink dots of the image dot group of each of the colors.
An inkjet printer forms ink dots of a first ink and ink dots of a second ink on a recording medium. The inkjet printer performs first screen processing on image data of the second ink to generate a first dot group including the ink dots of the second ink, and performs second screen processing on image data of the second ink to generate a second dot group including the ink dots of the second ink. The inkjet printer forms a first printing layer, on the recording medium, of the ink dots of the first ink and the ink dots of the first dot group, and forms a second printing layer of the ink dots of the second ink, above or below the first printing layer.
An inkjet printer includes a first ink head to eject a first ink, and a second ink head to eject a second ink. A generator generates dot groups including at least a first dot group and a second dot group including ink dots of the second ink. The dot groups include all the ink dots of the second ink. A first printing controller forms, on a recording medium, a first printing layer of the first ink and the first dot group. A second printing controller forms a second printing layer of the second dot group, above or below the first printing layer.
An ink drying device dries ink injected onto a recording medium. The ink drying device includes a main body including a counter plate facing the recording medium and including an inner space, and a heat generator located in the inner space of the main body to generate heat. The counter plate is provided with a plurality of discharge holes. The ink drying device further includes a heat diffusion layer provided on an outer surface of the counter plate that faces the recording medium.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41J 2/32 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads
A printer includes a first ink head that ejects a first ink, a second ink head that ejects a second ink, a first dot controller that controls a dot size after curing of the ejected first ink, and a second dot controller that controls a dot size after curing of the ejected second ink. The second ink is ejected over the first ink on a recording medium, and the second ink is caused to have a dot size that is larger than a dot size of the first ink.
B41J 2/155 - Arrangement thereof for line printing
B41M 7/00 - After-treatment of printed works, e.g. heating, irradiating
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41J 3/54 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed with two or more sets of type or printing elements
B41M 3/00 - Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns
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Aqueous inkjet ink, inkjet recording method, and inkjet recording device
2 represents a straight or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and n represents an integer of 2 or 3, and a third monool-type solvent that is at least one selected from the group consisting of 3-methoxy-1-butanol and 3-methoxy-3-methyl-1-butanol. The content of the third monool-type solvent in the ink is about 8% by mass or greater and about 27% by mass or less. The content of the first monool-type solvent in the ink is about 0.5% by mass or greater and about 9% by mass or less. The content of the second monool-type solvent in the ink is about 0.5% by mass or greater and about 9% by mass or less. The content of the water-soluble organic solvent component in the ink is about 15% by mass or greater and about 42% by mass or less.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
C09D 11/102 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions other than those only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds
C09D 11/033 - Printing inks characterised by features other than the chemical nature of the binder characterised by the solvent
C09D 11/107 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds from unsaturated acids or derivatives thereof
91.
Diaphragm pump, ink supply system, and inkjet printer
A diaphragm pump includes an inflow chamber and an outflow chamber. The inflow chamber is provided with an inflow valve seat. An inflow valve that prevents backflow of a liquid is disposed against the inflow valve seat. The outflow chamber is provided with an outflow valve seat. An outflow valve that prevents backflow of a liquid is disposed against the outflow valve seat. The diaphragm pump also includes an inflow-valve presser that presses the inflow valve against the inflow valve seat, and an outflow-valve presser that presses the outflow valve against the outflow valve seat. Each of the inflow valve and the outflow valve is defined by an elastically deformable member. Each of the inflow valve seat and the outflow valve seat includes a surface at least a portion of which is a curved surface.
A printer includes a first controller to cause a primer discharge head to discharge, from its nozzle, primer onto a recording medium and then cause a first ultraviolet light applicator to apply ultraviolet light to the primer, thus forming a first primer layer on the recording medium; a second controller to cause the primer discharge head to discharge, from its nozzle, the primer onto the first primer layer and the recording medium and then cause a second ultraviolet light applicator to apply ultraviolet light to the primer, thus forming a second primer layer on the first primer layer and the recording medium; and a third controller to cause an ink discharge head to discharge, from its nozzle, image-forming ink onto the second primer layer and then cause the first ultraviolet light applicator to apply ultraviolet light to the image-forming ink, thus forming an ink layer on the second primer layer.
A cutting apparatus includes a crop mark print controller and a front/back determiner. The crop mark print controller prints a first crop mark on a front side of a medium and then print a second crop mark over the first crop mark. The second crop mark is larger in size than the first crop mark. The front/back determiner determines that the medium is placed, with its front side facing upward, when only the second crop mark is detected by a crop mark detector, and determine that the medium is placed, with its back side facing upward, when a pattern including the first crop mark and the second crop mark overlapping one another is detected by the crop mark detector.
B26D 5/26 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed wherein control means on the work feed means renders the cutting member operative
B41J 2/005 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
A cutting apparatus includes a magazine including a holder to hold a machining tool. The holder includes a container, a magnetic body, and an intermediate member. The container holds a flange of the machining tool. The container includes in its bottom surface a first insertion hole through which a tool body of the machining tool is to be inserted. The magnetic body is disposed under the container. The magnetic body includes a second insertion hole through which the tool body is to be inserted. The intermediate member is disposed inside the second insertion hole. The intermediate member includes a third insertion hole through which the tool body is to be inserted. A length of the intermediate member in a height direction is equal to or longer than a length of the magnetic body in the height direction. The intermediate member is made of a non-magnetic material.
A controller includes a second controller that periodically performs a flushing operation of injecting a predetermined amount of ink from a nozzle, a third controller that repeatedly performs the flushing operation until a remaining amount of the ink in a storage chamber after the flushing operation is detected by a detector to be a first amount, a first counter that counts a first operation number of times of the flushing operation, and a fourth controller that performs a first cleaning operation of absorbing a fluid in a sealed space by a suction pump when the first operation number of times counted by the first counter reaches a first threshold value.
A printer includes a motor power supply line connecting a carriage motor with a power source, a sensor power supply line connecting a rotary encoder with the power source, a circuit breaker provided on the motor power supply line and interrupting electrical power if a cover sensor detects that a front cover is open and permit connection if the cover sensor detects that the front cover is closed, and a controller controlling the carriage motor and a recording head based on a position of a carriage detected by the rotary encoder.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
In an ink supply system, a main ink tank and an ink head are connected together via a main supply channel. A sub-ink tank is connected to the main supply channel via a sub-supply channel. An upstream-side valve is provided on an upstream-side portion of the main supply channel. During standby, a first standby setting processor of a controller sets a first standby state in which a first upstream-side valve is open, and a second standby setting processor sets a second standby state in which the first upstream-side valve is closed. A standby state determination processor determines whether or not the amount of time elapsed from when a setting operation was done by the first standby setting processor or the second standby setting processor is greater than or equal to a first amount of time. The standby state switching processor switches between the first standby state and the second standby state when it is determined that the elapsed time is greater than or equal to the first amount of time.
A liquid injection device includes a liquid injection head and a controller including a driving signal generator generating a driving signal including, in one liquid drop injection period, a first driving pulse and a second driving pulse, and a driving signal supplier. The first driving pulse maintains the pressure chamber in an expanded state for a time period of about (½)×Tc; and the second driving pulse starts at a timing that is about n×Tc after the start of the first driving pulse, n being an integer satisfying n≥2, to maintain the pressure chamber in the expanded state for the time period of about (½)×Tc, and to inject the second liquid drop at a speed higher than, or equal to, a speed at which the first liquid drop is injected.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
100.
Liquid injection device and inkjet recording device including the same
A liquid injection device includes a liquid injection head and a controller that generates a driving signal including first through fourth driving pulses in one liquid drop injection period and supplies the driving signal to the liquid injection head. The discharge time period of each of the first and second driving pulses is preferably set to about (½)×Tc. The start timing of the second driving pulse is preferably set to about m×Tc (m≧1) after the start of the first driving pulse. The second ink drop is preferably set to be injected at a speed of the first ink drop or higher. The start timing of the third driving pulse is preferably set to about (n+(½))×Tc (n≧1) after the start of the second driving pulse. The start timing of the fourth driving pulse is preferably set to about p×Tc (p≧2) after the start of the third driving pulse. The fourth ink drop is injected at a speed of the third ink drop or higher.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
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