Manual printing device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoji Imai
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Abstract
A manual printing device manually scanned across a recording medium to record images in ink on the recording medium, the device including: a recording unit for recording images in ink on the recording medium; an ink supply unit including an ink tank filled with ink and an ink tube for supplying ink from the ink tank to the recording unit; an ink tube valve disposed along the ink tube and for controlling supply of ink from the ink tank to the recording unit; and an ink tube valve drive unit for opening the ink tube valve when the recording unit is in confrontation with the recording medium and closing the ink tube valve when no recording medium is in confrontation with the recording unit.
Claims20
A manual printing device manually scanned across a recording medium to record images in ink on the recording medium, the device comprising:
- a recording unit for recording images in ink on the print medium;
- an ink supply unit including an ink tank filled with ink and an ink tube for supplying ink from the ink tank to the recording unit:
- an ink tube valve disposed along the ink tube and for controlling supply of ink from the ink tank to the recording unit;
- and
- an ink tube valve drive unit opening the ink tube valve in response to the recording unit being brought into confrontation with the recording medium and closing the ink tube valve when no recording medium is in confrontation with the recording unit.
A manual printing device, manually scanned across a recording medium to record images in ink on the recording medium, the device comprising:
- a recording unit for recording images in ink on the recording medium;
- an ink supply unit including an ink tank filled with ink and an ink tube for supplying ink from the ink tank to the recording unit;
- an ink tube valve disposed along the ink tube and for controlling supply of ink from the ink tank to the recording unit;
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- an ink tube valve drive unit for opening the ink tube valve when the recording unit is in confrontation with the recording medium and for closing the ink tube valve when no recording medium is in confrontation with the recording unit,
- wherein the ink tube valve drive unit includes:
- a shaft portion moveable in a first direction and a second direction opposite the first direction, the shaft portion being physically linked with the ink tube valve so that the ink tube valve opens when the shaft portion is moved in the first directions and closed when the shaft portion is moved in the second direction, the shaft portion being moved in the first direction by abutment against the recording medium;
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- an urging unit for urging the shaft portion in the second direction.
A manual printing device manually scanned across a recording medium to record images in ink on the recording medium, the device comprising:
- a recording unit for recording images in ink on the recording medium;
- an ink supply unit including an ink tank filled with ink and an ink tube for supplying ink from the ink tank to the recording unit;
- an ink tube valve disposed along the ink tube and for controlling supply of ink from the ink tank to the recording unit;
- an ink tube valve drive unit for opening the ink tube valve when the recording unit is in confrontation with the recording medium, and for closing the ink tube valve when no recording medium is in confrontation with the recording unit;
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- a pressurizing unit for pressurizing ink supplied from the ink tank to the recording unit;
- wherein the pressurizing unit includes a pump provided along the ink tube.
A manual printing device manually scanned across a recording medium to record images in ink on the recording medium, the device comprising:
- a recording unit for recording images in ink on the recording medium;
- an ink tank filled with ink to be supplied to the recording unit;
- a pressurizing unit for pressurizing ink supplied from the ink tank to the recording unit;
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- an ink tube through which ink is supplied from the ink tank to the recording unit, the pressurizing unit being provided along the ink tube.
A manual printing device manually scanned across a recording medium to record images in ink on the recording medium, the device comprising:
- a recording unit for recording images in ink on the recording medium;
- an ink tank filled with ink to be supplied to the recording unit;
- a pressurizing unit for pressurizing ink supplied from the ink tank to the recording unit;
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- a scanning unit for rotating across the recording medium in association with manual scanning of the manual printing device across the recording medium and supplying a drive force to the pressurizing unit.
A manual printing device manually scanned across a recording medium to record images in ink on the recording medium, the device comprising:
- a recording unit for recording images in ink on the recording medium;
- an ink tank filled with ink to be supplied to the recording unit;
- a pressurizing unit for pressurizing ink supplied from the ink tank to the recording unit;
- an ink tube through which ink is supplied from the ink tank to the recording unit;
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- an adjustment unit provided along the ink tube and for adjusting pressure applied to ink by the pressurizing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.