Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming device
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13669683Application Date: 2012-11-06
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Publication No.: US08770728B2Publication Date: 2014-07-08
- Inventor: Nobuhiko Motoyama
- Applicant: Nobuhiko Motoyama
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cooper & Dunham LLP
- Priority: JP2011-257096 20111125
- Main IPC: B41J2/175
- IPC: B41J2/175

Abstract:
Disclosed is an image forming device including a carriage including recording heads and sub-tanks; a platen having a conveyance surface; flexible tubes for supplying liquids to the sub-tanks, the flexible tubes being extended along a main scanning direction above the platen, wherein extended portions of the flexible tubes are folded at middle portions of extended portions in the main scanning direction; first and second tube guides that support the folded extended portions of the flexible tubes, wherein the flexible tubes are arranged in a height direction, wherein the first tube guide is disposed at a position higher than that of the second tube guide, and wherein the tubes are supported by a thin plate-like sheet member formed of an elastic material.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130135414A1 IMAGE FORMING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2013-05-30
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