CN105269972A - Liquid consuming device and combination machine - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a liquid consuming device, and the device comprises a box which is provided with a liquid storage room for storing liquid, an injection port which is used for injecting liquid into the liquid storage room, and a liquid flowing-out path which enables the liquid to flow out from the liquid storage room; a cover which can be installed on the box in a manner of blocking the injection port; and a cover which can move relative to the box between a closing position for covering the surface where the injection port is formed and an opening position for enabling the surface where the injection port is formed to be exposed. In addition, the cover is provided with a visual confirmation part which can achieve the visual confirmation of at least a part of the cover at the closing position at a state of blocking the injection port from the outer side of the cover.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of liquid consuming device and possess the compounding machine of this liquid consuming device, the cover that described liquid consuming device comprises the case of the inlet with liquid, the lid of the inlet of stuffer box and this case coating or makes it expose.
Background technology
In the past, known a kind of printer (example of liquid consuming device), its there is the jumbo case that can supplement ink and by the ink supplied from this case from nozzle ejection and the record head (for example, referring to Japanese Kohyo 11-504874 publication, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication 2013-139140 publication) image is recorded in recording paper.Case has the inlet of ink, and inlet can the opening and closing by lid.Under the state from inlet removal lid, ink can be supplemented from inlet in case.
Summary of the invention
Described in Japanese Kohyo 11-504874 publication, if can by covering the framework of case or the opening of cover close to the inlet of case, then there is user and do not wish the inlet of case when printer work etc. by moment of opening wide by possibility unlimited for inlet.
On the other hand, described in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication 2013-139140 publication, can not close in the structure of the inlet of case under the state that case quilt cover covers, user is after closedown cover, and user is difficult to aware the situation forgetting the lid of closing case.Consequently, there is following possibility: the inlet of case opens wide for a long time, the moisture of ink evaporation and make the changes such as the viscosity of ink, or ink spills from the inlet of case when printer is moved etc.
The present invention completes in view of said circumstances, and its object is to provides a kind of technical scheme, can prevent liquid consuming device from using under the state of the non-tegmentum blocking of the inlet of case.
According to mode of the present invention, a kind of liquid consuming device is provided, comprises: case, be formed store liquid liquid storage room, for inlet from liquid to described liquid storage room that inject and the liquid stream outbound path making liquid flow out from described liquid storage room; Lid, can be installed on described case in the mode blocking described inlet; And cover, can the closed position being formed with the face of described inlet of described case covered and make to move relative to described case between the open position of showing out being formed with described inlet of described case, described cover on described closed position can not close to be in block described inlet state under described lid, described cover has the visual confirmation unit at least partially that can be in the described lid the state blocking described inlet in described closed position from the visual confirmation in the outside of this cover.
Under the state that cover is positioned at open position, user can be close close to the inlet of case.Unload lower cover by the inlet from case, user can to liquid make-up in case.Under the state that cover is positioned at closed position, the lid under the state that user close can not be in the inlet of stuffer box.Under the state that cover is positioned at closed position, user can by visual confirmation unit from the outside of cover the visual lid of state confirming blocking inlet.Thus, situation about forgetting to inlet mounting cover is awared under the state that user can be positioned at closed position at cover.
According to the present invention, under the state that user can be positioned at closed position at cover by visual confirmation unit from the outside of cover the visual lid of state confirming blocking inlet.Thereby, it is possible to use under the state preventing liquid consuming device from not having tegmentum to block at the inlet of case.In addition, under the state that cover is positioned at closed position, lower cover can not be unloaded from the inlet of case.
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Figure 1A is the stereoscopic figure that cover is positioned at the compounding machine of closed position, Figure 1B is the stereoscopic figure that cover is positioned at the compounding machine of open position.
Fig. 2 is the longitudinal section of the internal structure schematically showing printing portion.
Fig. 3 is the top view of the configuration that balladeur train and ink cassette are shown.
Fig. 4 is the front stereogram of ink cassette.
Fig. 5 is the rear perspective view of ink cassette.
Fig. 6 is the VI-VI line sectional view of Fig. 4.
Fig. 7 is the VII-VII line sectional block diagram of Fig. 4.
Fig. 8 is the right side view of ink cassette.
Fig. 9 A is the IXA-IXA line sectional view of Fig. 8, and Fig. 9 B is the IXB-IXB line sectional view of Fig. 8.
Figure 10 A is the top view of ink cassette, and Figure 10 B is the XB-XB line sectional block diagram of Figure 10 A.
Figure 11 is the XI-XI line profile of Figure 10 A.
Figure 12 is the XII-XII line sectional view of Figure 11.
Figure 13 A is the stereoscopic figure of lid, and Figure 13 B is the sectional view of lid 113.
Figure 14 is the stereoscopic figure that cover is positioned at the compounding machine of open position.
Figure 15 is the block diagram that control part is shown.
Figure 16 is that lid is installed on the inlet of ink cassette and covers the amplification view being positioned at the compounding machine of closed position.
Figure 17 is that lid is held in maintaining part and covers the amplification view being positioned at the compounding machine of open position.
Figure 18 is that lid is held in maintaining part and the amplification view of the compounding machine of state that hindered to the movement of closed position of cover.
Figure 19 A represents to replace window and transparent component and the enlarged drawing that is formed with the variation of the cover of slit, Figure 19 B represents replace transparent component and be provided with the enlarged drawing of the variation of the cover of mesh, and Figure 19 C is the enlarged drawing replacing window and transparent component and be formed with the variation of the cover of multiple through hole 84.
Detailed description of the invention
Below, embodiments of the present invention are described.In addition, the embodiment below illustrated is only an example of the present invention, certainly suitably can change embodiments of the present invention in the scope not changing purport of the present invention.In the following description, the state (state of Figure 1A, Figure 1B) being set to by compounding machine 10 to use is designated as " using state ".In addition, the posture (posture of Figure 1A, Figure 1B) being set to by compounding machine 10 to use is designated as " use posture ".With using state or use posture for benchmark definition above-below direction 7.Fore-and-aft direction 8 is defined using the side being provided with opening 13 of compounding machine 10 as nearby side (front surface).Compounding machine 10 is observed to define left and right directions 9 from nearby side (front surface).Top is towards the composition being above-below direction 7, and below is towards the composition being also above-below direction 7.Top is towards reverse toward each other with below.Similarly, left towards with right towards the composition being separately left and right directions 9, and reverse each other.Front towards with rear towards the composition being separately fore-and-aft direction 8, and reverse each other.And in the present embodiment, above-below direction 7 is equivalent to vertical direction, fore-and-aft direction 8 and left and right directions 9 are equivalent to horizontal direction.
The overall structure > of < compounding machine 10
As shown in Figure 1A, Figure 1B, compounding machine 10 is roughly formed as cuboid.Be provided with in the bottom of compounding machine 10 with the printing portion 11 of ink-jet recording at the upper record image of paper 12 (with reference to Fig. 2).As shown in Figure 2, printing portion 11 possesses feed portion 15, feed pallet 20, discharge tray 21, transfer roller portion 54, recording unit 24, distributing roller portion 55, platen 42 and ink cassette 100 (example of case).
In addition, compounding machine 10 has scanner section 30 (example of image read-out) above printing portion 11.Scanner section 30 is so-called falt bed scanners, reads image described on the sheet material of the platen be placed in upward optically.By printing portion 11 and scanner section 30, compounding machine 10 can realize various function such as such as facsimile function and printing function etc.Printer 11 is examples for liquid consuming device.
As shown in figure 14, guidance panel 17 is provided with above the opening 13 in the antetheca 14A of the framework 14 of printing portion 11.Load button 17A and liquid crystal display 17B (example of notification unit) is provided with on the surface of guidance panel 17.Guidance panel 17 is configured on left and right directions 9 laterally longer, and its surface is towards oblique upper.Guidance panel 17 is configured to than ink cassette 100 described later by the top.
The framework 31 of scanner section 30 is to be formed with the mode that the framework 14 of printing portion 11 is roughly integrally formed.Therefore, the face that is roughly integrally formed with the front surface of framework 11, left and right sides and rear surface respectively of the front surface of framework 31, left and right sides and rear surface.
< feed pallet 20, discharge tray 21>
As shown in Figure 1A, Figure 1B, at the front surface of compounding machine 10 and the central portion of left and right directions 9 is formed with opening 13.Feed pallet 20 8 is plugged relative to compounding machine 10 by opening 13 along the longitudinal direction by user.Feed pallet 20 can support multiple stacked paper 12.Discharge tray 21 is configured at the top of feed pallet 20, plugs together with feed pallet 20.Discharge tray 21 supports by distributing roller portion 55 from the paper 12 of discharging between recording unit 24 and platen 42.
< feed portion 15>
Feed portion 15 by the paper 12 that supported by feed pallet 20 to transfer path 65 feed.As shown in Figure 2, feed portion 15 possesses feed roller 25, feed arm 26 and axle 27.Feed roller 25 is supported in the front of feed arm 26 in the mode that can rotate.Feed roller 25 by transmit motor (not shown) reversion and along by paper to transmit towards 16 transmit towards rotating.Below, by feed roller 25, transfer roller 60 and distributing roller 62 along by paper to transmit towards 16 transmit being recited as " positive rotation " towards the situation of carrying out rotating.Feed arm 26 is rotatably supported in the axle 27 by the frame supported of printing portion 11.By the elastic force of the deadweight or spring etc. of feed arm 26 and to feed arm 26 to feed pallet 20 side rotation urging.
< transfer path 65>
As shown in Figure 2, transfer path 65 is that the rear side from the rearward end of feed pallet 20 to printing portion 11 extends, and extend upward from below at the rear side of printing portion 11 and reverse end for end, the space between recording unit 24 and platen 42 arrives the path of discharge tray 21.The part of transfer path 65 is by the space formed with the relative guided outside parts 18 of predetermined space and inner side guide member 19 in the inside of printing portion 11.In addition, as shown in Figures 2 and 3, the part between transfer roller portion 54 and distributing roller portion 55 of transfer path 65 is arranged at the substantially central portion on the left and right directions 9 of compounding machine 10, and extends along fore-and-aft direction 8.In addition, the transmission of the paper 12 in transfer path 65 is illustrated by the arrow of single dotted broken line in fig. 2 towards 16.
< transfer roller portion 54>
As shown in Figure 2, transfer roller portion 54 is configured to than recording unit 24 by transmitting towards the upstream side of 16.Transfer roller portion 54 has transfer roller 60 respect to one another and hold-down roller 61.Transfer roller 60 is driven by transmission motor.Hold-down roller 61 rotates along with the rotation of transfer roller 60.Paper 12 is clamped by the transfer roller 60 of just transferring positive rotation and hold-down roller 61 by transmitting motor and transmits towards 16 to transmission.
< distributing roller portion 55>
As shown in Figure 2, distributing roller portion 55 is configured to than recording unit 24 by transmitting towards the downstream of 16.Distributing roller portion 55 has distributing roller 62 respect to one another and fluted disc 63.Distributing roller 62 is driven by transmission motor.Fluted disc 63 rotates along with the rotation of distributing roller 62.Paper 12 is clamped by the distributing roller 62 of just transferring positive rotation and fluted disc 63 by transmitting motor and transmits towards 16 to transmission.
< recording unit 24>
As shown in Figure 2, recording unit 24 is configured in and transmits towards the transfer roller portion 54 on 16 with between distributing roller portion 55.And recording unit 24 is oppositely disposed on above-below direction 7 across transfer path 65 and platen 42.That is, recording unit 24 is configured to more relative to transfer path 65 top of above-below direction 7 than transfer path 65.Recording unit 24 possesses balladeur train 23 and record head 39.
As shown in Figure 3, balladeur train 23 to be supported in 8 positions separated along the longitudinal direction separately 9 extended guide rails 43,44 in left-right direction.Guide rail 43,44 is supported in the framework of printing portion 11.Balladeur train 23 is connected with the known mechanism that is with being arranged at guide rail 44.This band mechanism is driven by carriage motor (not shown).That is, the balladeur train 23 be connected with band mechanism 9 is moved back and forth in left-right direction by the driving of carriage motor.As shown in the single dotted broken line of Fig. 3, the moving range of balladeur train 23 arrives right and the left of transfer path 65 on left and right directions 9.
And extend ink barrel 32 and flexible flat cable 33 from balladeur train 23, this ink barrel 32 is connected with ink cassette 100 and record head 39, the control substrate and record head 39 that are provided with control part (not shown) are electrically connected by this flexible flat cable 33.Ink barrel 32 will be stored in the providing ink of ink cassette 100 to record head 39.In more detail, extend four ink barrels 32B, 32M, 32C, 32Y for black, magenta, cyan, yellow ink flow from ink cassette 100, and these ink barrels are connected with balladeur train 23 under the state of harness.Sometimes four ink barrels 32B, 32M, 32C, 32Y are referred to as " ink barrel 32 ".The control signal exported from control part is passed to record head 39 by flexible flat cable 33.
As shown in Figure 2, record head 39 is equipped on balladeur train 23.Multiple nozzle 40 is formed at the lower surface of record head 39.The front end of multiple nozzle 40 is exposed from the lower surface of record head 39 and the balladeur train 23 that carries record head 39.Below, sometimes the face of the front end of exposing nozzle 40 is recited as " nozzle face ".Record head 39 sprays ink from nozzle 40 in the mode of small ink droplet.In the process of balladeur train 23 movement, record head 39 sprays ink droplet towards the paper 12 supported by platen 42.Thus, recording paper 12 records image.
< platen 42>
As shown in Figures 2 and 3, platen 42 transmission towards 16 on be configured between transfer roller portion 54 and distributing roller portion 55.Platen 24 configures in the mode relative with recording unit 24 at above-below direction 7, supports the paper 12 transmitted by transfer roller portion 54 from downside.
< ink cassette 100>
As shown in Figure 1, ink cassette 100 is contained in the inside of framework 14.Ink cassette 100 is fixed on compounding machine 10 in the mode that cannot pull down from compounding machine 10 easily.
The front surface of ink cassette 100 is positioned at opening 22 position on the front formed than the antetheca 14A (example of sidewall) in framework 14, and exposes to the outside of compounding machine 10 in mode that can be close.Opening 22 is adjacent with opening 13 on left and right directions 9.And, framework 14 is provided with and can covering the cover 70 rotated between the closed position (with reference to Figure 1A) of opening 22 and the open position (with reference to Figure 1B) that opening 22 is exposed.Cover 70 is the box shapes of the front surface that can cover the ink cassette 100 be positioned at than opening 22 position on the front, is supported to can be rotated centered by the turning cylinder 70A extended along left and right directions 9 in the lower end side of above-below direction 7 by framework 14.Turning cylinder 70A is arranged on (state shown in Figure 1A) when opening 22 is closed by cover 70 upper end 71 than cover 70 near the position (with reference to Figure 16) of lower end 72.
As shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5, ink cassette 100 has the profile of roughly cuboid.Ink cassette 100 has antetheca 101, right wall 102, left wall 103, upper wall 104 and lower wall 105.Antetheca 101 by the wall 101A extended from lower wall 105 along roughly vertical direction 7, to be connected with the upper end of wall 101A and to form relative to the inclined wall 101B that above-below direction 7 and fore-and-aft direction 8 tilt.And the upper surface forming the lower wall 105 of the bottom surface of ink chamber 111 described later is downward-sloping towards ground, right.On the other hand, the rear surface of ink cassette 100 is opened wide.Further, by the rear end face deposition film 106 at right wall 102, left wall 103, upper wall 104, lower wall 105, thus the rear surface of ink cassette 100 is sealed.That is, film 106 forms the rear wall of ink cassette 100.
< ink chamber 111>
As shown in Figure 5, multiple next doors 107,108,109 that zoning goes out inner space are provided with in the inside of ink cassette 100.Next door 107,108,109 respectively to above-below direction 7 and fore-and-aft direction 8 extended, be connected with antetheca 101, upper wall 104, lower wall 105 and film 106.And next door 107 ~ 109 9 is spaced apart in left-right direction.Consequently, the inner space of ink cassette 100 is become four ink chamber 111B, 111M, 111C, 111Y adjacent on left and right directions 9 by zoning.Ink chamber 111 is examples for the liquid storage room storing the ink sprayed from nozzle 40.
Ink chamber 111B is the space gone out by antetheca 101, right wall 102, upper wall 104, lower wall 105, film 106 and next door 107 zoning.Ink chamber 111M is the space gone out by antetheca 101, upper wall 104, lower wall 105, film 106 and next door 107,108 zoning.Ink chamber 111C is the space gone out by antetheca 101, upper wall 104, lower wall 105, film 106 and next door 108,109 zoning.Ink chamber 111Y is the space gone out by antetheca 101, left wall 103, upper wall 104, lower wall 105, film 106 and next door 109 zoning.
Below, sometimes ink chamber 111B, 111M, 111C, 111Y are referred to as " ink chamber 111 ".And, be provided with the inscape of four accordingly for each ink chamber 111, the reference number that the letter (B, M, C, Y) at attached only end is different, sometimes omit this when being referred to as these inscapes and state alphabetically.
The ink of different colours is stored in each ink chamber 111.Specifically, in ink chamber 111B store black ink, store cyan at ink chamber 111C, at ink chamber 111M stock red ink, store yellow ink at ink chamber 111Y.Color inks is an example of liquid.But the quantity of ink chamber 111 and the color of ink are not limited to above-mentioned example.Ink chamber 111 is 9 configurations in left-right direction.And in four ink chamber 111B, 111M, 111C, 111Y, ink chamber 111B is configured at the rightmost side, and ink chamber 111Y is configured at the leftmost side.Further, ink chamber 111B is larger than other ink chamber 111M, 111C, 111Y volume.
< inlet 112>
9 inlet from ink to each ink chamber 111 112B, 112M, 112C, 112Y for injecting is disposed with in row in left-right direction at the inclined wall 101B of ink cassette 100.Toward the front and upward (towards oblique upper), the through inclined wall 101B of through-thickness, makes corresponding ink chamber 111 and the ft connection of ink cassette 100 to inlet 112.Faced by the inner surface of inclined wall 101B and ink chamber 111, the exterior face pair of its outer surface and ink cassette 100.Therefore, inlet 112 makes ink chamber 111 directly be communicated with the outside of ink cassette 100.That is, between inlet 112 and ink chamber 111, there is not sectional area ratio and inject young and bending stream.
As shown in Figure 1B, inclined wall 101B is exposed to the outside of compounding machine 10 with the inlet 112 being arranged at inclined wall 101B by making cover 70 be positioned at open position under the state in front being positioned at opening 22.In the present embodiment, the posture (injection posture) of the ink cassette 100 when injecting ink by inlet 112 to ink chamber 111 is consistent with the posture that compounding machine 10 is in the ink cassette 100 when using posture.That is, when compounding machine 10 is in use posture, ink is injected by inlet 112 to ink chamber 111.
The inclined wall 101B of ink cassette 100 towards cover 70 side of closed position namely towards front side, and relative to along left and right directions 9 and fore-and-aft direction 8 dummy level face tilt and towards oblique upper.The face being exposed to outside side in inclined wall 101B is preferably more than 45 degree relative to Virtual water plane angulation and is less than 90 degree, and the operation supplementing ink from inlet 112 is easily carried out.
Inlet 112 is configured to the front surface of the framework 31 of the scanner section 30 than compounding machine 10 on the front.By configuring inlet 112 in the above described manner, during situation close to ink cassette 100 when injecting ink to ink cassette 100 etc., do not need to carry out scanner section 30 being mentioned upward and making the operations such as it rotates.Operation etc. is injected therefore, it is possible to ink bottle is easily inserted inlet 112 and carries out ink.
Inlet 112 is formed at the inclined wall 101B of ink cassette 100, therefore towards the outside of framework 14 and oblique upper.In other words, the virtual plane comprising inlet 112, along inclined wall 101B, tilts relative to above-below direction 7 and fore-and-aft direction 8.Further, orthogonal with virtual plane and from inlet 112 towards the outside of ink cassette 100 towards being oblique upper.
Ink cassette 100 has lid 113B, 113M, 113C, the 113Y that can load and unload relative to inlet 112.As shown in Figure 1A, the lid 113 being installed on inlet 112 is close to the periphery of inlet 112 and blocks inlet 112.On the other hand, as shown in Figure 1B, inlet 112 opens wide by the lid 113 unloaded from inlet 112.Lid 113 loads and unloads relative to inlet 112 under the state making cover 70 be positioned at open position.And, by being unloaded from inlet 112 by lid 113, ink can be injected ink chamber 111.Lid 113B, 113M, 113C, 113Y carry out color differentiation respectively homochromyly with the color of the ink stored by corresponding ink chamber 111B, 111M, 111C, 111Y, and namely chromatic zones is divided into black, magenta, cyan, yellow.In addition, it might not surface be all identical with ink color of the same colour that the color of lid 113B, 113M, 113C, 113Y is distinguished, and also can be only a part of identical with ink color.In addition, the color about lid 113B, 113M, 113C, 113Y is distinguished, as long as user can understand its corresponding with ink chamber 111B, 111M, 111C, 111Y, then and also can be identical with ink color.
< ink outflow path 114>
As shown in figs. 6-9, ink outflow path 114B, 114M, 114C, 114Y (example of liquid stream outbound path) is connected with in each ink chamber 111.Ink outflow path 114 makes to be stored in the stream that the ink in corresponding ink chamber 111 flows out to the outside of ink cassette 100.Ink outflow path 114 in present embodiment is the streams of the right flank (that is, the outer surface of right wall 102) arriving ink cassette 100 from the ink chamber 111 of correspondence.
As shown in Fig. 7 and Fig. 9 A, ink outflow path 114Y is communicated with ink chamber 111Y by going out the opening 115Y of the lower end setting in the next door 109 on the right surface of ink chamber 111Y in zoning.And as shown in Figure 8, ink outflow path 114Y arrives the right flank of ink cassette 100 by the opening 116Y arranged at right wall 102.In more detail, as shown in Figure 9 A, ink outflow path 114Y is 9 extended to the right in left-right direction from opening 115Y at the front side of ink chamber 111B, 111M, 111C, through right wall 102 and arrive opening 116Y (that is, the right flank of ink cassette 100).
As shown in Fig. 7 and Fig. 9 A, ink outflow path 114C is communicated with ink chamber 111C by going out the opening 115C of the lower end setting in the next door 108 on the right surface of ink chamber 111C in zoning.And as shown in Figure 8, ink outflow path 114C arrives the right flank of ink cassette 100 by the opening 116C arranged at right wall 102.In more detail, as shown in Figure 9 A, ink outflow path 114C is 9 extended to the right in left-right direction from opening 115C at the front side of ink chamber 111B, 111M, through right wall 102 and arrive opening 116C.
As shown in Fig. 7 and Fig. 9 A, ink outflow path 114M is communicated with ink chamber 111M by going out the opening 115M of the lower end setting in the next door 107 on the right surface of ink chamber 111M in zoning.And as shown in Figure 8, ink outflow path 114M arrives the right flank of ink cassette 100 by the opening 116M arranged at right wall 102.In more detail, as shown in Figure 9 A, ink outflow path 114M is 9 extended to the right in left-right direction from opening 115M at the front side of ink chamber 111B, through right wall 102 and arrive opening 116M.
As shown in FIG. 6 and 7, ink outflow path 114B is communicated with ink chamber 111B by the opening 115B that arranges near the right wall 102 on right surface with bottom surface that goes out ink chamber 111B in zoning and the border of lower wall 105.The next door 110 intersected to the inflow of opening 115B towards the below of above-below direction 7 (that is, towards) with ink is provided with above opening 115B.And as shown in Figure 8, ink outflow path 114B arrives the right flank of ink cassette 100 by the opening 116B arranged at right wall 102.
As shown in Figure 6, ink outflow path 114B is 8 forwards extended along the longitudinal direction from opening 115M, arrives opening 116B than the through right wall 102 in ink outflow path 114M, 114C, 114Y position on the front.And the 8 ink outflow path 114B extended intersect with 9 ink outflow path 114M, 114C, 114Y extended in left-right direction along the longitudinal direction.In more detail, ink outflow path 114B forwards extends in the below of ink outflow path 114M, 114C, 114Y of 9 extensions in left-right direction.
Namely, as shown in Figure 7, opening 115B, 115M, 115C, 115Y that ink chamber 111B, 111M, 111C, 111Y are connected with ink outflow path 114B, 114M, 114C, 114Y of separately corresponding to these ink chamber 111 are arranged to separately than ink chamber 111B, 111M, 111C, 111Y above-below direction 7 central authorities on the lower, than the forward side of the central authorities of fore-and-aft direction 8 and than left and right directions 9 central authorities on the right side.And, as shown in Figure 8, opening 116B, 116M, 116C, 116Y be arranged at the ratio ink cassette 100 in the right flank of ink cassette 100 above-below direction 7 central authorities on the lower and the position of side more forward than the central authorities of fore-and-aft direction 8.In more detail, opening 116 8 is disposed adjacent along the longitudinal direction from the front side of the right flank of ink cassette 100 towards rear side according to the order of opening 116B, 116Y, 116C, 116M.
In addition, ink chamber 111 refers to the maximum sized central authorities along above-below direction 7 of ink chamber 111 in the central authorities of above-below direction 7.In the present embodiment, the full-size along above-below direction 7 of ink chamber 111 means the full-size along above-below direction 7 between upper wall 104 and lower wall 105.Ink chamber 111 refers to the maximum sized central authorities along fore-and-aft direction 8 of ink chamber 111 in the central authorities of fore-and-aft direction 8.In the present embodiment, the full-size along fore-and-aft direction 8 of ink chamber 111 means the full-size along fore-and-aft direction 8 between antetheca 101 and film 106.Ink chamber 111 refers to the maximum sized central authorities along left and right directions 9 of ink chamber 111 in the central authorities of left and right directions 9.In the present embodiment, the full-size along left and right directions 9 of ink chamber 111 to mean between next door 107 ~ 109 adjacent one another are or and the full-size along left and right directions 9 between right wall 102 or the adjacent next door 107 ~ 109 of left wall 103.Similarly, the central authorities of the above-below direction 7 of ink cassette 100 refer to the maximum sized central authorities along above-below direction 7 of ink cassette 100.The central authorities of the fore-and-aft direction 8 of ink cassette 100 refer to the maximum sized central authorities along fore-and-aft direction 8 of ink cassette 100.
And, different from each other from the volume of each ink outflow path 114 of opening 115 to opening 116.In the present embodiment, the volume of the ink outflow path 114Y between opening 115Y, 116Y is maximum, the volume of the ink outflow path 114C between opening 115C, 116C is second largest, the volume of the ink outflow path 114M between opening 115M, 116M is the third-largest, and the volume of the ink outflow path 114B between opening 115B, 116B is minimum.The reason that the volume of ink outflow path 114 is different is varied, such as, by an equal basis not the causing of sectional area of ink outflow path 114 at the length of left and right directions 9 or the orthogonal with left and right directions 9 of ink outflow path 114.
And then, be set as that the maximum spout output of the time per unit of the ink sprayed than the nozzle 40 from record head 39 is large from the max-flow output of the time per unit of the ink of ink outflow path 114 outflow.Max-flow output is such as determined by the sectional area orthogonal with left and right directions 9 of ink outflow path 114.
< ink derives path 117, reflow line 119>
As shown in Figure 8, the right flank of ink cassette 100 is provided with ink and derives path 117B, 117M, 117C, 117Y (liquid derives an example in path).One end that ink derives path 117B, 117M, 117C, 117Y connects with corresponding ink outflow path 114B, 114M, 114C, 114Y in the position of opening 116B, 116M, 116C, 116Y, and its other end is connected with connecting portion 118B, 118M, 118C, 118Y.The connecting portion 118 being provided projectingly on the upper wall 104 of ink cassette 100 is connected with four ink barrels 32B, 32M, 32C, 32Y corresponding to color inks (with reference to Fig. 3).That is, path 117 derived by ink is the inks that will be flowed out from ink chamber 111 by corresponding ink outflow path 114, by guiding to the stream of record head 39 with the ink barrel 32 that corresponding connecting portion 118 connects.In addition, each ink derivation path 117 is roughly the same with the volume of each ink barrel 32.
And, as shown in Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 B, the right flank of ink cassette 100 is provided with reflow line 119B, 119M, 119C, 119Y.One end of reflow line 119B, 119M, 119C, 119Y is connected with ink outflow path 114B, 114M, 114C, 114Y in the position of opening 116B, 116M, 116C, 116Y, and its other end is communicated with corresponding ink chamber 111 by opening 120B, 120M, 120C, 120Y.In addition, opening 116,120 is arranged at different positions on above-below direction 7.In more detail, opening 120 is arranged in the opening 116 of ratio correspondence on above-below direction 7 by the top.
And opening 120 is arranged to ink chamber 111 than correspondence the top side (wherein, not comprising opening 120B) of the central authorities of above-below direction 7.It is further preferred that opening 120 is arranged at the liquid level position by the top (wherein, not comprising opening 120B) than the ink in the ink chamber 111 of correspondence.And opening 120 to be arranged on fore-and-aft direction 8 than corresponding ink chamber 116 rearward side (the 3rd towards an example) (wherein, not comprising opening 120B).And opening 120 is arranged on left and right directions 9 and keeps left side (the 4th towards an example) than corresponding opening 116.That is, reflow line 119 from opening 116 vertically 7 upside and fore-and-aft direction 8 rear side extend, and then in the lateral direction 9 left side extend to opening 120 (wherein, not comprising reflow line 119B).
As shown in Figure 8, the right wall 102 of ink cassette 100 is provided with multiple prominent wall 121A ~ 121I.Sometimes multiple prominent wall 121A ~ 121I is referred to as " prominent wall 121 ".Prominent wall 121 is given prominence to the right from the outer surface (right flank) of right wall 102, and extended along the outer surface of right wall 102.And, be deposited with film 122 at the right side front of each prominent wall 121.The film 122 of prominent wall 121A ~ 121I deposition single (sharing) in the present embodiment.Path 117 derived by ink and reflow line 119 refers to the space gone out by adjacent prominent wall 121A ~ 121H and film 122 zoning.
Prominent wall 121A, 121B that zoning goes out ink lead path footpath 117B rearward extend from the position across opening 116B, and then extend to the upper end of ink cassette 100 upward.Prominent wall 121G, 121H that zoning goes out prominent wall 121C, the 121D of ink lead path footpath 117Y, zoning goes out ink lead path footpath 117C prominent wall 121E, 121F and zoning go out ink lead path footpath 117M extend downwards from the position of opening 116Y, 116C, the 116M across correspondence, and then extend to the upper end of ink cassette 100 upward at the rear side of opening 116Y, 116C, 116M.That is, ink derivation path 117Y, 117C, 117M connects with corresponding ink outflow path 114Y, 114C, 114M in the bottom of opening 116Y, 116C, 116M.The bottom of opening 116Y, 116C, 116M refers to the central authorities of the ratio above-below direction 7 of opening 116Y, 116C, 116M on the lower.And then each ink derivation path 117 is passed through 7 spaces extended with left and right directions 9 (omitting diagram) along the vertical direction and is connected with corresponding connecting portion 118 in the inside of ink cassette 100.
Zoning goes out prominent wall 121A, the 121B of reflow line 119B, zoning goes out reflow line 119Y prominent wall 121B, 121C, zoning go out prominent wall 121F, 121G that prominent wall 121D, 121E of reflow line 119C and zoning go out reflow line 119M and extend upward from the position of the opening 116 across correspondence.That is, reflow line 119 connects with corresponding ink outflow path 114 on the top of opening 116.The top of opening 116 refers to the central authorities of the ratio above-below direction 7 of opening 116 by the top.Further, as shown in Figure 9 B, each reflow line 119B in the inside of ink cassette 100 in the lateral direction the left of 9 extend, and to be communicated with corresponding ink chamber 111 by opening 120.
In addition, in the present embodiment, the flow path resistance of reflow line 119Y, 119C, 119M is set to that the flow path resistance of ink outflow path 114Y, 114C, 114M than correspondence is large.The method that flow path resistance is changed is varied, such as, can extend flow path length, reduce the sectional area of stream or they combined, increase flow path resistance thus.
[additional ink room 123]
And then, as shown in Figure 8, the right flank of ink cassette 100 is provided with additional ink room 123 (attached storage room).To be dashed forward the space that wall 121H, 121I and film 122 zoning go out by continuous print in the circumferential in additional ink room 123.Additional ink room 123 is communicated with ink chamber 111B by through hole 123A, 123B of through right wall 102.Through hole 123B to be arranged on above-below direction 7 than through hole 123A by the top.In additional ink room 123 by making zoning go out the front of a part around through hole 123A of the prominent wall 121I of the lower end of additional ink room 123, rear and below and be formed with detected portion 124.
[optical pickocff 125]
As shown in Figure 4 and Figure 8, compounding machine 10 possesses optical pickocff 125, and this optical pickocff 125 has across detected portion 124 illuminating part 125A relative on fore-and-aft direction 8 and light accepting part 125B.Illuminating part 125A exports through prominent wall 121I and not through the light (such as, visible or infrared light) of black ink towards light accepting part 125B.Light accepting part 125B comes to export high level signal to control part according to the situation receiving the light exported from illuminating part 125A.In addition, high level signal refers to that signal level is the signal of more than threshold value.On the other hand, light accepting part 125B comes to control part output low level signal according to the situation not receiving light.In addition, low level signal refers to the signal of signal level lower than threshold value.
[atmosphere communication path 126]
As shown in Figure 10 B, atmosphere communication path 126B, 126M, 126C, 126Y is connected with in each ink chamber 111.Atmosphere communication path 126 makes corresponding ink chamber 111 be communicated with air.In more detail, atmosphere communication path 126 is communicated with corresponding ink chamber 111 by breach 127, and by the ft connection of opening 132 with ink cassette 100.Further, atmosphere communication path 126 is entered in ink chamber 111 and the chien shih outflow air flow path of the outside of ink cassette 100 by breach 127, first through hole 128, labyrinth (labyrinth) 129, second through hole 130, gas passage 131 and opening 132.
Breach 127 is arranged to ink chamber 111 than correspondence in the top side of the central authorities of above-below direction 7, than the central authorities side and keeping left side than the central authorities of left and right directions 9 rearward of fore-and-aft direction 8.In more detail, breach 127B is gone out by upper wall 104, film 106 and next door 107 zoning.Breach 127M is gone out by upper wall 104, film 106 and next door 108 zoning.Breach 127C is gone out by upper wall 104, film 106 and next door 109 zoning.Breach 127Y is gone out by upper wall 104, film 106 and next door 103 zoning.That is, the breach 127 in present embodiment is arranged at the upper end of corresponding ink chamber 111, rear end and left end.
And, paste pellicle 133 at the first through hole 128.Pellicle 133 has blocking-up ink pass through and allow the multiple aperture plasma membrane in the small hole that gas passes through.As pellicle 133, such as, can adopt the multiple aperture plasma membrane be made up of halide resins such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), polytrifluorochloroethylene, tetrafluoraoethylene-hexafluoropropylene copolymer, tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer, tetrafluoroethylene-ethylene copolymers.And then the top of the first through hole 128, labyrinth 129 and the second through hole 130 is covered by film 134.
[next door 135]
As shown in Fig. 7 and Fig. 9 B, be provided with next door 135B, 135M, 135C, 135Y of expansion on fore-and-aft direction 8 and left and right directions 9 in the inside of ink chamber 111.The next door 135 of present embodiment is extended roughly in the horizontal direction, but next door 135 towards being not limited thereto.Such as, also can be, next door 135 with in front-rear direction 8 rear towards decline mode tilt.
Next door 135B is connected with wall 101A, right wall 102, film 106 and next door 107.Next door 135M is connected with wall 101A, film 106 and next door 107,108.Next door 135C is connected with wall 101A, film 106 and next door 108,109.Next door 135Y is connected with wall 101A, left wall 103, film 106 and next door 109.That is, next door 135 is arranged on the below of inlet 112 in the inside of ink chamber 111.Further, a part for the ink chamber 111 of correspondence separates by next door 135 on above-below direction 7.That is, next door 135 separates relative to upper wall 104 and lower wall 105, Existential Space above and below the above-below direction 7 of next door 135.The shape of next door 135B, 135M, 135C, 135Y is roughly common, therefore, explains next door 135M referring to Figure 11 and Figure 12.
As shown in figure 11, next door 135M is at least arranged at intersection region.As an example, intersection region can be defined as with by inlet 112M and the region that intersects of the dummy line orthogonal with inclined wall 101B (dotted line of Figure 11).As another example, intersection region can be defined as the region intersected with the dummy line extended by inlet 112M and along the through direction of inlet 112M.As another example, intersection region can be defined as with from entering ink chamber 111 by inlet 112M and the region that intersects, the outflow direction of the ink flowed out by the supply port 137 of the ink bottle 136 of locating.That is, next door 135M is arranged at the region passed through for the ink flowing into ink chamber 111M by inlet 112M.In other words, the major part being injected the ink of ink chamber 111M by inlet 112M touches next door 135M.
And as shown in figure 12, next door 135M is arranged at than the whole region of intersection region by the front side of fore-and-aft direction 8.That is, next door 135M is arranged at the whole region of the side close with inlet 112M in horizontal direction.In other words, next door 135 than intersection region on the front side to extend continuously with the mode that wall 101A and next door 107,108 are seamlessly connected.That is, ink chamber 111M separates in the whole region than side on the front, intersection region by next door 135M on above-below direction 7.And next door 135M also extends to than the rear side (that is, apart from the inlet 112M of horizontal direction far away side) of intersection region by fore-and-aft direction 8.But, than a part of opening of the intersection region next door 135M of side rearward.The area (in the example in figure 12, the A/F of left and right directions 9) being arranged at the opening of next door 135M is far away then larger apart from inlet 112M.And the shape of opening is relative to along symmetrical towards the rear of fore-and-aft direction 8 (that is, towards) away from inlet 112M of next door 135M.The shape of the opening in present embodiment makes summit isosceles triangle toward the front.
As shown in Figure 4, near the upper end of the wall 101A of the antetheca 101 of ink cassette 100, be provided with upper limit index line 151, the lower end of wall 101A is provided with lower limit index line 152.Upper limit index line 151 is the lines of the position that the upper fluid level limit of the ink injected to ink chamber 111 by inlet 112 is shown to user.Upper limit index line 151 roughly linearly extends along left and right directions 9.Lower limit index line 152 be to user illustrate store in ink chamber 111 the line of position of lower fluid level limit of ink.Lower limit index line 152 roughly linearly extends along left and right directions 9.In addition, also can be that such as " expire " or " sky " etc. at the side of upper limit index line 151 and lower limit index line 152 mark, understanding them to enable user is the upper limit of the liquid level representing the ink being stored in ink chamber 111 and the position of lower limit.User can pass through can through the interface of the ink in the wall 101A of the antetheca 101 of visible ray visual confirmation ink chamber 111.User can by the interface of ink with upper limit index line 151 or comparing of lower limit index line 152 judge that the ink stored by ink chamber 111 is the upper limit or lower limit.
< covers 113>
As shown in Figure 1A, Figure 1B, lid 113 can load and unload relative to the inlet 112 of ink cassette 100.Be provided with four accordingly with four inlets 112B, 112M, 112C, 112Y of ink cassette 100 and cover 113B, 113M, 113C, 113Y.The shape of each lid 113B, 113M, 113C, 113Y is identical, referred to as lid 113, detailed construction is described therefore below.
As shown in Figure 13 A, Figure 13 B, the round plate 141 that lid 113 possesses roughly disc-shape, from the central authorities of round plate 141 respectively to contrary towards outstanding handle portion 142 and protuberance 143.Lid 113 by rubber or elastomer such can the raw material of elastic deformation carry out shaping.Round plate 141 caves near the central authorities of surperficial 141A, and handle portion 142 is given prominence to from the central authorities of surperficial 141A along the direction orthogonal with surperficial 141A.The depression of surface 141A is that the length of the length direction in order to extend handle portion 142 is formed to be convenient to grip.Back side 141B is plane.Back side 141B can abut with the peripheral part of inlet 112.
Handle portion 142 is substantial cylindrical shape, and the external diameter of its leading section is greater than the external diameter of base end part (part of surperficial 141A side).The external diameter of leading section is greatly hang to make finger be easy to card when gripping handle portion 142 and being extracted from inlet 112 by lid 113.
Protuberance 143 is substantially cylindrical shape, outstanding from the central authorities of the back side 141B of round plate 141 along the direction orthogonal with back side 141B.The external diameter of protuberance 143 is slightly larger than the internal diameter of inlet 112.Therefore, protuberance 143 inserts inlet 112 with the mode elastic deformation of external diameter undergauge.Under the state that protuberance 143 inserts inlet 112, the outer surface 143A of protuberance 143 crimps with the inner surface of inlet 112, is sealed in liquid-tight manner by inlet 112.In the central authorities of the front end of protuberance 143, be formed with recess 144 towards back side 141B.Thereby, it is possible to make the outer surface 143A of protuberance 143 easily pour into radially inner side, consequently, be easy to protuberance 143 to insert inlet 112.
< covers 70>
As described in Figure 1A, Figure 1B and Figure 14, cover 70 is arranged to be formed in opening 22 opening and closing of the antetheca 14A of framework 14.The cover 70 moving axis 70A that rotates rotates, this turning cylinder 70A along load compounding machine 10 mounting surface 6 direction on extend, specifically extend along left and right directions 9.Cover 70 has the profile of the size corresponding with opening 22 and the box shape of opening 22 side opening.Cover 70 covers wall 101A and the inclined wall 101B of the antetheca 101 of ink cassette 100.Therefore, under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position, user can not from the outside lid 113 close to being installed on each inlet 112.
Cover 70 makes the wall 101A of the antetheca 101 of ink cassette 100 and inclined wall 101B be exposed to the outside of framework 14 on open position.Therefore, under the state that cover 70 is in an open position, user can from the outside lid 113 close to being installed on each inlet 112.As shown in Figure 16 ~ Figure 18, cover 70 has the outer surface 70B of the part of the antetheca 14A forming framework 14 on closed position and inner surface 70C relative with ink cassette 100 on closed position.Be provided with from the inner surface 70C holding section 73 outstanding to framework 14 side in the side, upper end 71 of cover 70.Engage near the upper end of holding section 73 by the opening 22 with framework 14 and cover 70 is maintained in its closed position.
In cover 70 in the closed position, form fenestrate 74 in the central authorities of above-below direction 7 and left and right directions 9.Window 74 is at the chien shih light transmission of the outer surface 70B side of cover 70 and inner surface 70C side.Window 74 such as by embed opening, the transparent component that makes visible light-transmissive 81 (example of visual confirmation unit) forms.Window 74 has following size: can from the lower end top side of the antetheca 14A sidelong glance of framework 14 depending on the wall 101A confirming the antetheca 101 than ink cassette 100 and the upper end than inclined wall 101B on the lower on above-below direction 7, and can part beyond the left end of visual confirmation antetheca 101 and right-hand member on left and right directions 9.Therefore, under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position, user can confirm by transparent component 81 is visual from the outside of cover 70 each lid 113 being installed on each inlet 112.In addition, under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position, the upper limit index line 151 that user can be marked at the wall 101A of the antetheca 101 of ink cassette 100 from the visual confirmation in the outside of cover 70 by transparent component 81 and lower limit index line 152.
At the inner surface 70C of lid 70,9 be provided with four maintaining part 75B, 75M, 75C, 75Y with arranging in one in left-right direction closer to the position of lower end 71 in 72 sides compared with upper end 71 when lid 70 is in the closed position on lower side than window 74.Four maintaining part 75B, that 75M, 75C, 75Y cover 113B, 113M, 113C, 113Y with four is respectively corresponding.In the cover 70 of open position, four maintaining part 75B, 75M, 75C, 75Y relative to four inlets 112B, 112M, 112C, 112Y in the lateral direction 9 right side configure with staggering a little.But the position of maintaining part 75B, 75M, 75C, 75Y is not limited thereto, also can be configured on position corresponding with inlet 112B, 112M, 112C, 112Y on left and right directions 9.
Four maintaining part 75B, 75M, 75C, 75Y configuration on left and right directions 9 is different, but they have identical structure, referred to as maintaining part 75, its detailed structure is described therefore below.As shown in Figure 14, Figure 16 ~ Figure 18, maintaining part 75 is from the outstanding cylindrical shape of the inner surface 70C of cover 70.The external diameter of maintaining part 75 is greater than the external diameter of the protuberance 143 of lid 113.The recess 76 to the circle of jag side opening is formed in maintaining part 75.The recess 79 of the outstanding side extension to maintaining part 75 is provided with from the center of the bottom surface of recess 76.The protuberance 143 of lid 113 is inserted with in recess 76.When the protuberance 143 of lid 113 is inserted in the recess 76 of maintaining part 75, the protuberance 79 of maintaining part 75 is inserted in the recess 144 of lid 113.The internal diameter of recess 76 is identical with the external diameter of protuberance 143, and the external diameter of protuberance 79 is identical with the internal diameter of recess 144.Under the state that the protuberance 143 of lid 113 inserts recess 76, the outer surface 143A of protuberance 143 abuts with the inner surface of recess 76, and lid 113 produces the frictional force of the degree that can not come off from maintaining part 75 due to deadweight.Therefore, even if when cover 70 rotates from open position to closed position, lid 113 also can keep the state being inserted in recess 76.In addition, when cover 70 is in the closed position, the ink entering recess 76 also can be stored in due to surface tension in recess 76.Specifically, under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position, the ink entering into recess 76 also can be stored between the inner surface of recess 76 and the outer surface of recess 79.
Cover 70 inner surface 70C and be provided with inkpad 77 around maintaining part 75.Inkpad 77 has the non-woven fabrics etc. that can absorb and keep the three-dimensional mesh structure of ink.In addition, inkpad 77 also can be configured in the recess 76 of maintaining part 75.In addition, inkpad 77 can also be recorded the display of the ink color represented corresponding to each maintaining part 75.
< sensor 80>
As shown in figure 14, the upper right corner of the opening 22 of framework 14 is provided with sensor 80.Sensor 80 is mechanical switch.The state that sensor 80 abuts with cover 70 in the closed position is state, and cover 70 leaves sensor 80 state from closed position rotation is dissengaged positions.As shown in figure 15, sensor 80 exports the signal representing on-state to the control part 90 of printing portion 11 when being in on-state.Control part 90 is the arithmetic units be made up of CPU, ROM, RAM, ASIC etc. of being installed on control substrate, judges that cover 70 is not in the closed position according to the output signal of sensor 80.That is, when sensor 80 is not in on-state, in other words when sensor 80 is in dissengaged positions, be judged to be that cover 70 is not in the closed position.Control part 90, according to being judged to be the situation that cover 70 is not in the closed position, makes the liquid crystal display 17B of guidance panel 17 show the display not in the closed position of expression cover 70.In addition, control part 90 can also the display of replacement liquid crystal display 17B, or on the basis of the display of liquid crystal display 17B, makes loudspeaker (not shown) produce alarm song or LED that expression is warned is lighted.
< lid 113 is to the installation > of maintaining part 75
As shown in Figure 1A and Figure 16, when compounding machine 10 is in state (using state) that can use, inlet 112 tegmentum 113 of ink cassette 100 seals, and the cover 70 that the opening 22 of the antetheca 14A of framework 14 is in closed position is closed.In addition, when compounding machine 10 is in using state, antetheca 14A extends to the direction crossing with the mounting surface 6 of mounting compounding machine 10.
As shown in figure 14, when being consumed in each ink chamber 111 of ink at ink cassette 100, cover 70 rotates from closed position to open position by user.Thus, the inlet 112 being positioned at the ink cassette 100 in the front of the opening 22 of the antetheca 14A of framework 14 exposes, and becoming can close to the state of inlet 112.When cover 70 rotates from closed position, sensor 80 switches to dissengaged positions from on-state.According to the output signal of sensor 80, control part 90 is judged to be that cover 70 is not in the closed position.Then, control part 90 makes the liquid crystal display 17B of guidance panel 17 display cover 70 not in the closed position.
After till cover 70 is turned to open position, user pulls up the lid 113 corresponding with the ink chamber 111 that should supplement ink from inlet 112.Then, as shown in figure 17, the lid 113 pulled up is inserted into the recess 76 of the maintaining part 75 corresponding with the ink chamber 111 that should supplement ink by user.Thus, the lid 113 unloaded from inlet 112 is kept by maintaining part 75.
As shown in figure 11, the supply port 137 of ink bottle 136 is inserted into inlet 112 by user, supplements ink to ink chamber 111.After the supplementary end of ink, user unloads lower cover 113 from maintaining part 75, lid 113 is inserted inlet 112 and is sealed by inlet 112.After this, cover 70 rotates from open position to closed position by user.When cover 70 turns back to closed position, sensor 80 switches to on-state from dissengaged positions.According to the output signal of sensor 80, control part 90 is judged to be that cover 70 is in the closed position.Then, the display that control part 90 makes cover 70 not in the closed position disappears from the liquid crystal display 17B of guidance panel 17.
Suppose that user does not use lid 113 to seal inlet 112 after supplementing ink to ink chamber 111, under the state that lid 113 is kept by maintaining part 75, want cover 70 to rotate to closed position from open position.In this case, the lid 113 kept by maintaining part 75 is positioned at the moving area of cover 70.Thus, as shown in figure 18, at cover 70 from before arrival closed position, open position, the lid 113 kept by maintaining part 75 contacts with the wall 101A of the antetheca 101 of ink cassette 100.That is, the lid 113 kept by maintaining part 75 is between the wall 101A and the inner surface 70C of cover 70 of the antetheca 101 of ink cassette 100.Thus, cover 70 is hindered to the rotation of closed position.
As shown in figure 18, under the state that the lid 113 kept by maintaining part 75 contacts with the wall 101A of the antetheca 101 of ink cassette 100, the angle A of the angle A of side, open position between the virtual line 78 turning cylinder 70A of cover 70 and upper end 71 connected with beeline and the mounting surface 6 of mounting compounding machine 10 and the face side of the antetheca 14A of framework 14 is less than 90 degree.Therefore, under the state that the lid 113 kept by maintaining part 75 contacts with the wall 101A of the antetheca 101 of ink cassette 100, if user lets go from cover 70, then due to the effect of gravity, cover 70 rotates to open position.
In addition, suppose that user has unloaded lid 113 from maintaining part 75 after supplementing ink to ink chamber 111, but lid 113 is not installed to inlet 112 and just wants cover 70 to rotate to closed position from open position.In this case, lid 113 does not have maintained portion 75 to keep, and therefore, by the operation of user, cover 70 rotates from open position to closed position.When cover 70 is in the closed position, sensor 80 switches to on-state from dissengaged positions, and according to the output signal of sensor 80, control part 90 is judged to be that cover 70 is in the closed position.Then, the display that control part 90 makes cover 70 not in the closed position disappears from the liquid crystal display 17B of guidance panel 17.
But, as shown in Fig. 1, Figure 16, if lid 113 is installed on the state of each inlet 112, then can confirm by transparent component 81 is visual from the outside of cover 70 each lid 113 being installed on each inlet 112 under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position.On the contrary, if the state that lid 113 is not installed on each inlet 112, then visually confirm inlet 112, instead of respectively cover 113.Thus, aware under the state that user can be positioned at closed position at cover 70 and forget to inlet 112 mounting cover 113.In addition, cover 113 and carry out color differentiation accordingly with ink color.Therefore, user easily can grasp the situation forgotten and install lid 113B, 113M, 113C, the 113Y corresponding with which inlet 112B, 112M, 112C, 112Y.
In addition, under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position, if can visual confirmation be installed on the lid 113 of each inlet 112 at least partially, but more preferably can the entirety of visual confirmation lid 113.That is, till preferably clear parts 81 extend to the position relative with covering 113 perspective planes on left and right directions 9.In addition, under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position, preferably can also the entirety of visual confirmation inlet 112.
[action effect of present embodiment]
According to the present embodiment, under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position, user can by transparent component 81 from the outside of cover 70 the visual lid 113 of state confirming blocking inlet 112.Therefore, it is possible to use under the state preventing compounding machine 10 from not having tegmentum 113 to block at inlet 112.In addition, under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position, user can not unload lower cover 113 from inlet 112.
In addition, transparent component 81 is embedded with at the window 74 of cover 70.Thus, under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position, user can by transparent component 81 from the outside of cover 70 the visual lid 113 of state confirming blocking inlet 112.And then, under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position, can prevent dust and foreign matter from entering the inside of framework 14 from opening 22.
In addition, ink cassette 100 is configured in framework 14 in the mode making the inclined wall 101B being formed with inlet 112 and more forwards expose compared with opening 22.Thus, under the state that cover 70 is in an open position, easily ink can be injected into the inlet 112 being formed at inclined wall 101B from the outside of framework 14.
In addition, the position closer to lower end compared with the upper end of cover 70 in the closed position of the antetheca 14A of framework 14 is provided with turning cylinder 70A, cover 70 rotates centered by turning cylinder 70A.Thus, if holding section 73 does not engage with near the upper end of the opening 22 of framework 14, then covering 70 cannot be maintained in its closed position and can rotate to open position due to gravity.Cover 70 is supported by mounting surface 6 and is held in open position.Thus, user easily unloads lower cover 113 under the state that cover 70 is remained on open position.Further, cover 70 to be maintained in its closed position under the unexpected situation of user.
In addition, respectively cover 113B, 113M, 113C, 113Y and carry out color differentiation, therefore user easily can grasp lid 113B, 113M, 113C, 113Y of forgetting that installation is corresponding with which inlet 112B, 112M, 112C, 112Y.Especially, by making the color of each lid 113B, 113M, 113C, 113Y identical with the ink color being stored in corresponding each ink chamber 111B, 111M, 111C, 111Y, user is enable more easily to grasp the lid forgetting installation.
In addition, the inclined wall 101B of ink cassette 100, towards the oblique upper of cover 70 side in the closed position, therefore easily supplements ink from inlet 112.
In addition, inlet 112 is configured to the front surface of the framework 31 of the scanner section 30 than compounding machine 10 on the front.Thus, user does not need to carry out being mentioned upward by scanner section 30 and making the operations such as it rotates, and just ink bottle easily can be inserted inlet 112 and carry out ink and inject operation etc.
[variation]
In addition, in the above-described embodiment, be embedded with transparent component 81 at the window 74 of cover 70, but also can be, replace this window 74 and on left and right directions 9, be formed with multiple slits 82 (example of visual confirmation unit) of through cover 70 as shown in Figure 19 A at spaced intervals.Also can be that, under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position, each slit 82 is 7 extensions along the vertical direction.In addition, as shown in Figure 19 B, also can be replace transparent component 81 and window 74 is provided with mesh 83 (example of visual confirmation unit).In addition, as shown in fig. 19 c, also can be replace window 74 and on above-below direction 7 and left and right directions 9, be formed with the through hole 84 (example of visual confirmation unit) of multiple through cover 70 at spaced intervals.By arranging so multiple slits 82, mesh 83 or multiple through hole 84 at cover 70, even if thus make user also visually from the outside of cover 70 can confirm the lid 113 being in the state blocking inlet 112 under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position.Thereby, it is possible to use under the state preventing compounding machine 10 from not having tegmentum 113 to block at inlet 112.In addition, under the state that cover 70 is in the closed position, user can not unload lower cover 113 from inlet 112.In addition, although do not illustrate in Figure 19 A ~ Figure 19 C, slit 82, mesh 83 and multiple through hole 84 visually can confirm size or the position of upper limit index line 151 and lower limit index line 152 under also can being arranged in cover 70 state in the closed position.
In addition, the shape covering 113 also can suitably change.Such as, may not be the shape of the inlet 112 that can insert ink cassette 100, but the shape of the cylindric projection formed around inlet 112 can be embedded in outward.Or, also can be seal the structure of inlet 112 by being screwed with the negative thread being formed at lid 113 by the pin thread be formed at around inlet 112.
In addition, in the above-described embodiment, opening 22 is formed with on the right side of the antetheca 14A of framework 14, ink cassette 100 is configured with at the rear of opening 22, but also can be formed with opening 22 in the left side of antetheca 14A, be configured with ink cassette 100 at the rear of this opening 22.In addition, also can substitute the antetheca 14A of framework 14 and be formed with opening 22 at right side wall or left side wall, and can from the right of framework 14 or left close to the inlet 112 of ink cassette 100.In this embodiment, also can at the left of the side wall surface of the framework 31 of scanner section 30 or right configuration inlet 112.In addition, cover 70 is not limited to the such structure opened centered by the turning cylinder along left and right directions 9, fore-and-aft direction 8 of above-mentioned embodiment, such as, also can be the horizontal opening structure of what is called opened centered by the turning cylinder along above-below direction 7.
Further, in the above-described embodiment, the example of ink as liquid is illustrated, but the present invention is not limited thereto.That is, also can replace ink, by be ejected into before ink when printing recording paper pretreatment liquid or in order to the water etc. of the drying and spraying to the nozzle 40 of record head 39 near that prevent the nozzle 40 of record head 39 is as liquid.
Claims (11)
1. a liquid consuming device,
Comprise: case, be formed store liquid liquid storage room, for inlet from liquid to described liquid storage room that inject and the liquid stream outbound path making liquid flow out from described liquid storage room;
Lid, can be installed on described case in the mode blocking described inlet; And
Cover, can cover the closed position being formed with the face of described inlet of described case and make to move relative to described case between the open position of showing out being formed with described inlet of described case,
Described cover on described closed position can not close to be in block described inlet state under described lid,
Described cover has the visual confirmation unit at least partially that can be in the described lid the state blocking described inlet in described closed position from the visual confirmation in the outside of this cover.
2. liquid consuming device according to claim 1, wherein,
Described visual confirmation unit is by forming through the light transparent member of visible ray.
3. liquid consuming device according to claim 1, wherein,
Described visual confirmation unit is slit, mesh or multiple through hole.
4. the liquid consuming device according to any one in claims 1 to 3, wherein,
Also comprise the framework with opening,
Described case is configured in described framework making the face being formed with described inlet from the state that described outward opening side is exposed.
5. liquid consuming device according to claim 4, wherein,
Described framework has the sidewall extended to the direction crossing with the mounting surface of the described framework of mounting,
Described opening is formed at described sidewall,
Described cover has the first end becoming upper end under the state being in described closed position and the second end becoming lower end,
Described cover to rotate centered by the turning cylinder arranged along described mounting surface closer to the position of described second end compared with described first end.
6. the liquid consuming device according to any one in claims 1 to 3, wherein,
Described case has:
Multiple described liquid storage room;
Multiple described liquid stream outbound path, makes liquid flow out from multiple described liquid storage room respectively; And
Multiple described inlet, for injecting liquid respectively to multiple described liquid storage room,
Described lid is set to the multiple lids blocking described multiple inlet respectively.
7. liquid consuming device according to claim 6, wherein,
Described multiple lid carries out color differentiation respectively.
8. liquid consuming device according to claim 7, wherein,
Described multiple lid color is separately identical with the color of the liquid stored in the described liquid storage room corresponding to the described inlet blocked at this lid.
9. the liquid consuming device according to any one in claims 1 to 3, wherein,
Described case be formed described inlet facing to the oblique upper of described cover side being in described closed position.
10. liquid consuming device according to claim 9, wherein,
The face being formed with described inlet of described case is with respect to the horizontal plane more than 45 degree and is less than the angle of 90 degree.
11. 1 kinds of compounding machines, comprise the liquid consuming device described in any one in claims 1 to 3 and are arranged at the image read-out of top of described liquid consuming device,
The described inlet of described liquid consuming device be configured to than the framework of described image read-out wall in the outer part.
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