Abstract: A liquid ejection device includes a medium set section that is configured to set a medium, a support section that is configured to support the medium, a recording section that ejects ink onto the medium supported by the support section to record, a liquid container mounting section to which a liquid container that contains the ink to be supplied to the recording section is attached, and a waste liquid container mounting section to which a waste liquid container that stores ink discharged as waste liquid from the recording section is attached, wherein the liquid container mounting section and the waste liquid container mounting section are provided at position below the support section and overlap with the medium set section as viewed from a direction along a transport direction in which the medium is transported in the support section.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording portion, a liquid container portion containing a liquid to be supplied to the recording portion, a body in which the recording portion and the liquid container portion are mounted, and a housing that houses the body. The body can be changed in position between a closed position and an open position in a position-change direction intersecting with a vertical direction. The body, when located at the closed position, is housed inside the housing. The body, when located at the open position, protrudes from the housing in a first position-change direction of the position-change direction. The liquid container portion includes a container space containing the liquid to be supplied to the recording portion, and a liquid inlet through which the liquid can be poured into the container space. The liquid inlet is exposed when the body is located at the open position.

Abstract: A heat treatment system disclosed herein may include: one or more saggars, each of which is configured to accommodate powder of a lithium positive electrode material; and a heat treatment furnace configured to heat-treat the powder accommodated in the one or more saggars. Each of the one or more saggars may include a contact surface which is to make contact with the powder, wherein at least the contact surface of each saggar is constituted of a nickel-based alloy. The heat treatment furnace may be configured to heat-treat the powder accommodated in the one or more saggars at a temperature of 300° C. or more and 1000° C. or less for a duration of 10 hours or more and 30 hours or less.

Abstract: A liquid ejection system includes: a liquid ejection apparatus; and a liquid storage container, wherein the liquid ejection apparatus includes a mounting unit having an apparatus-side terminal portion that is elastically deformable in a mounting direction, and an apparatus-side locking portion that restricts the liquid storage container from moving in a direction opposite to the mounting direction of the liquid storage container, and the liquid storage container includes a top surface located on an upper side in a vertical direction in a mounted state in which the liquid storage container is mounted, a container-side locking portion, the container-side locking portion being provided on the top surface, and a container-side terminal portion coupled to the apparatus-side terminal portion, the container-side terminal portion being provided at a position closer to the top surface than to a center of the liquid storage container in the vertical direction.

Abstract: A liquid ejection system includes: a liquid ejection apparatus; and a liquid storage container, wherein the liquid ejection apparatus includes a mounting unit having an apparatus-side terminal portion that is elastically deformable in a mounting direction, and an apparatus-side locking portion that restricts the liquid storage container from moving in a direction opposite to the mounting direction of the liquid storage container, and the liquid storage container includes a top surface located on an upper side in a vertical direction in a mounted state in which the liquid storage container is mounted, a container-side locking portion, the container-side locking portion being provided on the top surface, and a container-side terminal portion coupled to the apparatus-side terminal portion, the container-side terminal portion being provided at a position closer to the top surface than to a center of the liquid storage container in the vertical direction.

Abstract: An infrared heater 10 includes a heating element 40 that emits infrared radiation when heated and that is capable of absorbing infrared radiation in a predetermined reflection wavelength range, and a filter unit 50 that is disposed so as to be separated by a first space 47, which is open to an outside space, from the heating element 40. The filter unit 50 includes one or more transmission layers (a first transmission layer 51) that transmit at least a part of the infrared radiation from the heating element 40, and a reflective section (the first transmission layer 51) that reflects infrared radiation in the reflection wavelength range toward the heating element 40.

Abstract: A low-temperature drying apparatus includes a furnace body, an object holder, an infrared light transmitting plate, a supply device, a discharge device, and infrared heaters. The object holder holds an object to be dried so that the object to be dried is placed in the furnace body. The infrared light transmitting plate is arranged on a surface of the furnace body that faces the object holder. The cooling flow generating device generates a cooling flow in a space between the object to be dried that is held by the object holder and the infrared light transmitting plate. The infrared heater is disposed to face the infrared light transmitting plate in an open space outside the furnace body.

Abstract: There is provided with a cartridge comprising a liquid supply portion; a contact portion that is located on a +Z-axis direction side of the liquid supply portion and that is arranged to contact with an electrical connecting element; and a positioning structure that is located between the liquid supply portion and the contact portion in a Z-axis direction. The liquid supply portion is configured to receive a first external force in a ?Y-axis direction from the liquid introducing structure when the liquid supply portion is connected with the liquid introducing structure. The contact portion is configured to receive a second external force in a direction including a ?Y-axis direction component from the electrical connecting element when the contact portion comes into contact with the electrical connecting element. This configuration suppresses position misalignment of the cartridge or a connector to a mounting structure.

Abstract: A low-temperature drying apparatus includes a furnace body, an object holder, an infrared light transmitting plate, a supply device, a discharge device, and infrared heaters. The object holder holds an object to be dried so that the object to be dried is placed in the furnace body. The infrared light transmitting plate is arranged on a surface of the furnace body that faces the object holder. The cooling flow generating device generates a cooling flow in a space between the object to be dried that is held by the object holder and the infrared light transmitting plate. The infrared heater is disposed to face the infrared light transmitting plate in an open space outside the furnace body.

Abstract: There is provided with a cartridge comprising a liquid supply portion; a contact portion that is located on a +Z-axis direction side of the liquid supply portion and that is arranged to contact with an electrical connecting element; and a positioning structure that is located between the liquid supply portion and the contact portion in a Z-axis direction. The liquid supply portion is configured to receive a first external force in a ?Y-axis direction from the liquid introducing structure when the liquid supply portion is connected with the liquid introducing structure. The contact portion is configured to receive a second external force in a direction including a ?Y-axis direction component from the electrical connecting element when the contact portion comes into contact with the electrical connecting element. This configuration suppresses position misalignment of the cartridge or a connector to a mounting structure.

Abstract: Printing can continue while replacing ink cartridges. The printer 1 detects and reports an ink supply disabled state in which ink cannot be supplied from ink cartridges 9a to 9d. If a cover-open state, in which the cover 8a that opens and closes the cartridge holder 8 is open, is detected and the ink supply disabled state is also detected while printing is in progress, printing is permitted to continue using ink in buffer tanks (pressure control chambers 13a to 13d) while displaying a warning instead of going to an error state. Interruptions to printing due to a cover-open error while replacing ink cartridges 9a to 9d can therefore be avoided.

Abstract: Printing can continue while replacing ink cartridges. The printer 1 detects and reports an ink supply disabled state in which ink cannot be supplied from ink cartridges 9a to 9d. If a cover-open state, in which the cover 8a that opens and closes the cartridge holder 8 is open, is detected and the ink supply disabled state is also detected while printing is in progress, printing is permitted to continue using ink in buffer tanks (pressure control chambers 13a to 13d) while displaying a warning instead of going to an error state. Interruptions to printing due to a cover-open error while replacing ink cartridges 9a to 9d can therefore be avoided.

Abstract: An infrared heater 10 includes a heating element 40 that emits infrared radiation when heated and that is capable of absorbing infrared radiation in a predetermined reflection wavelength range, and a filter unit 50 that is disposed so as to be separated by a first space 47, which is open to an outside space, from the heating element 40. The filter unit 50 includes one or more transmission layers (a first transmission layer 51) that transmit at least a part of the infrared radiation from the heating element 40, and a reflective section (the first transmission layer 51) that reflects infrared radiation in the reflection wavelength range toward the heating element 40.

Abstract: A fluid storage container enables the easy removal of recovered fluid and reuse of the container without incurring the added costs of disassembly and replacing an absorbent material. In one exemplary embodiment, an ink cartridge 17 can have an ink storage unit 45 that stores waste ink, an ink inlet/outlet 55 disposed in a frame part 52 that can be the outside wall of the ink storage unit 45, an ink path 53 of which one end 53a communicates with the ink inlet/outlet 55 and the other end 53b is disposed opening into the ink storage unit, wall parts 54 that divide the ink storage unit 45 into an upper air chamber 61 and a lower fluid chamber 62 that communicate with each other through a communication path 58, and an outside air channel 87, of which one end 87a communicates with the air chamber 61 and the other end 87b enables communication with the outside at a position further from the air chamber 61 than the fluid chamber 62. Other embodiments of fluid storage containers are also disclosed.

Abstract: An inkjet printer enables flexibly controlling nozzle maintenance of nozzles that eject ink according to individual user needs. A printing device that prints by ejecting ink from nozzles, includes a user interface unit that receives configuration information related to a nozzle maintenance process of the nozzles; and a nozzle maintenance control unit that executes a nozzle check at a set nozzle check timing as the nozzle maintenance process when the configuration information includes information to execute a nozzle check, and information about the timing of the nozzle check to execute when a clogged nozzle having an ink ejection problem is detected.

Abstract: The case 22 of a waste ink tank 13 has ribs 51, 52 that partition the space between a waste ink inlet 36 and an air vent 33. Air passages 65, 66 that connect the waste ink storage spaces S1, S2, S3 partitioned by the ribs are formed at the top ends of the ribs 51, 52. Waste ink permeates all of a sponge 21 through the space between the ribs 51, 52 and the bottom wall 24. Because a path for air to flow to the air vent 33 is constantly maintained inside the case 22 by the air passages 65, 66, air is discharged from the air vent 33 as waste ink is introduced to the case 22. The strength of the case can therefore be increased without interfering with introducing waste ink to the case and absorption of introduced waste ink by the sponge.

Abstract: A fluid storage container enables the easy removal of recovered fluid and reuse of the container without incurring the added costs of disassembly and replacing an absorbent material. In one exemplary embodiment, an ink cartridge 17 can have an ink storage unit 45 that stores waste ink, an ink inlet/outlet 55 disposed in a frame part 52 that can be the outside wall of the ink storage unit 45, an ink path 53 of which one end 53a communicates with the ink inlet/outlet 55 and the other end 53b is disposed opening into the ink storage unit, wall parts 54 that divide the ink storage unit 45 into an upper air chamber 61 and a lower fluid chamber 62 that communicate with each other through a communication path 58, and an outside air channel 87, of which one end 87a communicates with the air chamber 61 and the other end 87b enables communication with the outside at a position further from the air chamber 61 than the fluid chamber 62. Other embodiments of fluid storage containers are also disclosed.

Abstract: A fluid storage container enables the easy removal of recovered fluid and reuse of the container without incurring the added costs of disassembly and replacing an absorbent material. In one exemplary embodiment, an ink cartridge 17 can have an ink storage unit 45 that stores waste ink, an ink inlet/outlet 55 disposed in a frame part 52 that can be the outside wall of the ink storage unit 45, an ink path 53 of which one end 53a communicates with the ink inlet/outlet 55 and the other end 53b is disposed opening into the ink storage unit, wall parts 54 that divide the ink storage unit 45 into an upper air chamber 61 and a lower fluid chamber 62 that communicate with each other through a communication path 58, and an outside air channel 87, of which one end 87a communicates with the air chamber 61 and the other end 87b enables communication with the outside at a position further from the air chamber 61 than the fluid chamber 62. Other embodiments of fluid storage containers are also disclosed.

Abstract: The case 22 of a waste ink tank 13 has ribs 51, 52 that partition the space between a waste ink inlet 36 and an air vent 33. Air passages 65, 66 that connect the waste ink storage spaces S1, S2, S3 partitioned by the ribs are formed at the top ends of the ribs 51, 52. Waste ink permeates all of a sponge 21 through the space between the ribs 51, 52 and the bottom wall 24. Because a path for air to flow to the air vent 33 is constantly maintained inside the case 22 by the air passages 65, 66, air is discharged from the air vent 33 as waste ink is introduced to the case 22. The strength of the case can therefore be increased without interfering with introducing waste ink to the case and absorption of introduced waste ink by the sponge.

Abstract: A fluid storage container enables the easy removal of recovered fluid and reuse of the container without incurring the added costs of disassembly and replacing an absorbent material. In one exemplary embodiment, an ink cartridge 17 can have an ink storage unit 45 that stores waste ink, an ink inlet/outlet 55 disposed in a frame part 52 that can be the outside wall of the ink storage unit 45, an ink path 53 of which one end 53a communicates with the ink inlet/outlet 55 and the other end 53b is disposed opening into the ink storage unit, wall parts 54 that divide the ink storage unit 45 into an upper air chamber 61 and a lower fluid chamber 62 that communicate with each other through a communication path 58, and an outside air channel 87, of which one end 87a communicates with the air chamber 61 and the other end 87b enables communication with the outside at a position further from the air chamber 61 than the fluid chamber 62. Other embodiments of fluid storage containers are also disclosed.