Abstract: There is provided a cutting mechanism including: a cutter blade that is capable of cutting a medium; a cutter unit to which the cutter blade is attached; and a rack gear that supports the cutter unit, in which the cutter blade is configured to cut the medium by the cutter unit moving in a traveling direction along the guide rail, the cutter unit has a second pinion gear and a fourth roller which are in contact with the guide rail to be held to the guide rail, and the second pinion gear and the fourth roller are disposed so as to interpose the cutter blade therebetween in the traveling direction.

Abstract: There is provided a cutting mechanism including: a cutter blade that can cut a medium, a cutter unit to which the cutter blade is attached, a first pinion gear that is rotatably attached to the cutter unit, and a rack gear that can mesh with the first pinion gear, in which the first pinion gear and the rack gear are configured with inclined teeth, and the cutter unit moves while the pinion gear is rotated in state of meshing the pinion gear and the rack gear.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid ejecting apparatus which includes a container holder on which a first liquid container and a second liquid container are detachably mounted, an nozzles for ejecting the liquid supplied from each of the liquid containers, and an adjuster that is disposed at a position covered by the first liquid container and not covered by the second liquid container, the method including: ejecting liquid by the nozzles in a state in which the second liquid container is mounted without the first liquid container being mounted; and adjusting the liquid ejecting apparatus by the adjuster based on an ejection result in the ejecting of the liquid.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit that ejects ink onto paper, a first removal portion that removes adhering objects that have adhered to the paper by making contact with a first surface of the paper during transport of the paper, and a second removal portion that removes adhering objects that have adhered to the paper by making contact with a second surface of the paper during transport of the paper. The first removal portion and the second removal portion are disposed so as to partially overlap in the transport direction of the paper and so that ends of the first removal portion and the second removal portion on an upstream side in the transport direction are distanced from each other in the transport direction.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit that ejects ink onto paper, a medium holding portion that holds the paper to be fed to the liquid ejecting unit, and a removal portion that removes adhering objects that have adhered to the paper, in a feed path of the paper that is positioned lower than the medium holding portion.

Abstract: A grounding structure achieves a conductive state between members by making contact with the members. One member includes a screw-shaped portion in at least part of the member, and the other member includes an anchoring portion that engages with the screw-shaped portion of the one member under a biasing force in an interlocked state.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head unit including a plurality of liquid ejecting heads in a parallel arrangement. Each liquid ejecting head ejects a liquid from nozzles formed in a nozzle face toward an ejection target object in accordance with a drive signal from a controller. Each liquid ejecting head has an individual two-dimensional code that includes at least a portion of information related to the liquid ejecting head. The liquid ejecting head unit includes a collective two-dimensional code that includes arrangement information of the liquid ejecting heads in the liquid ejecting head unit and collective information related to the information included in the individual two-dimensional codes.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit that ejects ink onto paper, a medium holding portion that holds the paper to be fed to the liquid ejecting unit, and a removal portion that removes adhering objects that have adhered to the paper, in a feed path of the paper that is positioned lower than the medium holding portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit that ejects ink onto paper, a first removal portion that removes adhering objects that have adhered to the paper by making contact with a first surface of the paper during transport of the paper, and a second removal portion that removes adhering objects that have adhered to the paper by making contact with a second surface of the paper during transport of the paper. The first removal portion and the second removal portion are disposed so as to partially overlap in the transport direction of the paper and so that ends of the first removal portion and the second removal portion on an upstream side in the transport direction are distanced from each other in the transport direction.

Abstract: A cutting device includes: a first guide portion that supports a sheet as a target to be cut; and a pair of cutting blades that cuts the sheet by performing a shearing operation on the sheet when the pair of cutting blades is in a state of pinching a cutting-target part of the sheet supported by the first guide portion from both sides thereof. The pair of cutting blades is configured of a fixed blade and a movable blade. The first guide portion supports the sheet in a manner in which the sheet is moved along a main transport surface that is so set as to pass through between the fixed blade and the movable blade when the fixed blade and the movable blade are not being engaged, and also supports the sheets so that the sheet can move from the main transport surface.

Abstract: The liquid ejection device of the present invention includes a guide shaft; a first guide shaft supporting member and second guide shaft supporting member supporting the guide shaft; a carriage configured to move in reciprocal manner along the guide shaft; and a liquid ejection head mounted to the carriage. The end parts of the first guide shaft supporting member and second guide shaft supporting member on the side of the guide shaft are connected to the guide shaft in the horizontal direction or downward from the horizontal direction orthogonal to the up-down direction with respect to the guide shaft.

Abstract: At a front-end side opposite to a head-fixing-member-attachment side, a protection member has an inclined plane sloped up from a head side toward the opposite outer side in a direction in which liquid ejecting heads are arranged in a row. The surface of the front end is located at a position that is not closer to a head-fixing member in comparison with the nozzle surface of each of the liquid ejecting heads attached to the head-fixing member or level therewith. A recess is formed at a part of the inclined plane. In a state in which one of the caps faces the protection member and, in addition, each of the remaining caps is in contact with the nozzle surface of the liquid ejecting head, a part of the cap facing the protection member is in the recess, which ensures that the cap is not in contact with the protection member.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head unit including a plurality of liquid ejecting heads in a parallel arrangement. Each liquid ejecting head ejects a liquid from nozzles formed in a nozzle face toward an ejection target object in accordance with a drive signal from a controller. Each liquid ejecting head has an individual two-dimensional code that includes at least a portion of information related to the liquid ejecting head. The liquid ejecting head unit includes a collective two-dimensional code that includes arrangement information of the liquid ejecting heads in the liquid ejecting head unit and collective information related to the information included in the individual two-dimensional codes.

Abstract: An ink jet printer includes a restraint device which applies a restraining force, applied to a support surface used for supporting a recording sheet, to the recording sheet transported from an upstream side to a downstream side in a transport direction. The restraint device includes a second support member which includes the support surface and a suction hole opened to the support surface and generating a negative pressure therein and which is capable of sucking the recording sheet supported to the support surface toward the support surface on the basis of the negative pressure generated inside the suction hole and a shield belt which is disposed to face the support surface.

Abstract: A grounding structure achieves a conductive state between members by making contact with the members. One member includes a screw-shaped portion in at least part of the member, and the other member includes an anchoring portion that engages with the screw-shaped portion of the one member under a biasing force in an interlocked state.

Abstract: A position adjustment mechanism is provided to adjust a position of second member with respect to a first member. The position adjustment mechanism includes: a cam that is provided in the first member so that a cam surface of the cam abuts the second member; and a fixing portion that is provided in a forming area of the cam surface in the first member and fixes the second member to the first member by screw in a state where the position of the second member with respect to the first member is adjusted by the cam.

Abstract: At a front-end side opposite to a head-fixing-member-attachment side, a protection member has an inclined plane sloped up from a head side toward the opposite outer side in a direction in which liquid ejecting heads are arranged in a row. The surface of the front end is located at a position that is not closer to a head-fixing member in comparison with the nozzle surface of each of the liquid ejecting heads attached to the head-fixing member or level therewith. A recess is formed at a part of the inclined plane. In a state in which one of the caps faces the protection member and, in addition, each of the remaining caps is in contact with the nozzle surface of the liquid ejecting head, a part of the cap facing the protection member is in the recess, which ensures that the cap is not in contact with the protection member.

Abstract: A sheet adsorption device includes a sheet adsorbing surface, a suction hole disposed on the sheet adsorbing surface, and a flow path shifting unit that shifts between a first state and a second state of a communication flow path that is communicated with the suction hole in accordance with existence of a sheet that covers the suction hole. The cross-section area of a flow path in the second state is smaller than that in the first state and the communication flow path is not closed in the second state.

Abstract: A liquid ejection device includes a primary guide shaft extending along a primary scanning direction, a carriage supported on the primary guide shaft so as to be movable in the primary scanning direction, a liquid ejection head mounted on the carriage, a liquid supply tube connected at one end to a liquid storage member and connected at the other end to the liquid ejection head, and a contact member contacting a curved portion of the liquid supply tube extending from the carriage to form a curved shape. The contact member bears reactive force directed at the primary guide shaft in the conveying direction of the recording medium throughout the scanning range of the carriage from the liquid supply tube.

Abstract: The liquid ejection device of the present invention includes a guide shaft; a first guide shaft supporting member and second guide shaft supporting member supporting the guide shaft; a carriage configured to move in reciprocal manner along the guide shaft; and a liquid ejection head mounted to the carriage. The end parts of the first guide shaft supporting member and second guide shaft supporting member on the side of the guide shaft are connected to the guide shaft in the horizontal direction or downward from the horizontal direction orthogonal to the up-down direction with respect to the guide shaft.