CN101125485A - Ink supply tube fixing mechanism - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention is a fixing mechanism of ink supply tube, suitable for using a printing output device of a continuous ink supply system, in order to support and guide at least one ink supply tube, and the at least one ink supply tube links with an ink casket in the printing output device, the said ink supply fixing mechanism includes: a supporting part fixed on the printing output device; and a guiding part which is fixedly arranged on the supporting part and is provided with a channel, so that the at least one ink supply tube penetrates through the channel to support the at least one ink supply tube and guide the at least one ink supply tube to perform corresponding movement when the ink cartridge operates.

Description

Ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism

Technical field

The relevant a kind of ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism of the present invention refers to a kind of ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism that is applicable to the print-out device that uses continuous ink-supply system especially.

Background technology

Along with technical development and demand are grown up, not only printable various file of present print-out device and list also can provide the output of propaganda data and digital photo, become indispensable output equipment in daily life and the work.But, existing print-out device is in order to deal with a large amount of and diversified print job, to make the ink in the ink cartridges consume apace, the ink reservoir volume of adding ink cartridges is limited, therefore the ink cartridges that must more renew soon certainly will will be interrupted print job thus, and is very inconvenient for a large amount of users that print of needs, and the consumables cost of getting off for a long time is too high, does not also meet the environmental protection notion.

In view of this, a kind of continuous ink-supply system just arises at the historic moment, it is by one or several ink supply pipe, the outer print cartridge of the arrogant capacity of ink is guided in the ink cartridges of print-out device, make ink cartridges can utilize ink gun constantly to spray ink to the ink-jet medium, for example: paper, on the time, this ink cartridges also constantly utilizes the ink of the certainly outer print cartridge suction of ink supply pipe equivalent with additional balance, and then reaches the purpose of continuous ink feeding.

Yet, when printing work ink gun and ink cartridges can be back and forth fast moving repeatedly, and then can affect connected ink supply pipe, this moment is if the ink supply length of tube is long, not fixedly ink supply pipe or the actuating range of ink supply pipe without limits, be easy to that the ink supply pipe is scattered or the situation of backfin when ink cartridges moves, thereby the action that causes ink supply pipe or other elements is obstructed, inefficacy or fault, even may undermine ink cartridges and the disconnected China ink or the situation of ink leak when printing.

Therefore, how to develop and a kind ofly improve above-mentioned prior art disappearance, and can limit the ink supply pipe and be subjected to the ink cartridges running to affect moving range, and guarantee can not have influence on the ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism of other elements runnings, real in pressing for the problem of solution at present.

Summary of the invention

Main purpose of the present invention is to provide a kind of ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism, its passage by guidance part comes ccontaining and supports the range of movement of ink supply pipe with restriction ink supply pipe, and guiding ink supply pipe carries out corresponding motion when ink cartridges operates, to guarantee that ink supply Guan Buhui has influence on the running of other elements, thereby when solving existing ink cartridges and moving the ink supply pipe scatter easily or backfin and cause the action of ink supply pipe, ink cartridges or other elements to be obstructed, functional fault or damage, the problems such as China ink or ink leak of breaking take place when printing even.

For reaching above-mentioned purpose, of the present invention one implements the sample attitude for a kind of ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism is provided than broad sense, be applicable to the print-out device that uses continuous ink-supply system, in order to support and to guide at least one ink supply pipe, and at least one ink supply pipe is to be connected with ink cartridges in the print-out device, described ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism comprises: the support portion, and it is fixedly arranged on the print-out device; And guidance part, it is fixedly arranged on the support portion and has passage, makes at least one ink supply pipe penetrating via, in order to supporting at least one ink supply pipe, and guides at least one ink supply pipe and carry out corresponding motion when ink cartridges operates.

According to conception of the present invention, at least one ink supply pipe is connected with ink supply platform in the print-out device.

According to conception of the present invention, wherein guidance part is an annulus, in order to support and to guide at least one ink supply pipe.

According to conception of the present invention, further be provided with lock member, in order to guidance part is locked on the support portion.

According to conception of the present invention, wherein lock member is a nut.

Of the present invention another implemented the sample attitude for a kind of ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism is provided than broad sense, be applicable to the print-out device that uses continuous ink-supply system, in order to support and to guide at least one ink supply pipe, and at least one ink supply pipe is connected with ink cartridges in the print-out device, ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism comprises: the support portion, and it is fixedly arranged on the print-out device and has storage tank; The rotation section, it partly is placed in the storage tank of support portion; And guidance part, it is fixedly arranged on the rotation section and has passage, makes at least one ink supply pipe penetrating via, in order to support at least one ink supply pipe; Wherein, to be corresponding ink cartridges carry out axle and change along the driving of at least one ink supply pipe in the rotation section, and drive guidance part and rotate to guide at least one ink supply pipe along with the running direction of ink cartridges is carried out corresponding motion.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the structural representation of the fixed ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism of the present invention's first preferred embodiment.

Fig. 2 is applied to operation workflow schematic diagram in the printer with fixed ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism shown in Figure 1.

Fig. 3 is the structural representation of the universal type ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism of the present invention's second preferred embodiment.

Fig. 4 (a)～(d) is applied to operation workflow schematic diagram in the printer with universal type ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism shown in Figure 3.

The specific embodiment

Some exemplary embodiments that embody feature of the present invention and advantage will be described in detail in the following description.Be understood that the present invention can have various variations on different aspects, its neither departing from the scope of the present invention, and explanation wherein and to be shown in be when the usefulness that explain in essence, but not in order to restriction the present invention.

The present invention is a kind of ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism, it is applicable to and uses one of continuous ink-supply system to print output device, for example: in the printer (not shown), mainly be made up of support portion and guidance part, the ink supply pipe that is connected with ink cartridges (not shown) in order to support and guiding carries out corresponding motion when ink cartridges operates.

See also Fig. 1, it is the structural representation of the fixed ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism of the present invention's first preferred embodiment, as shown in the figure, adopt fixed ink-supplyingtube fixing mechanism 1 mainly to be formed bysupport portion 11,guidance part 12 andlock member 13,support portion 11 can utilize the mode of locking or engaging to be fixed in the surface of shell or the inside of printer, and have asurface 111, then have a hole (not shown) on thesurface 111.

The partial structure ofguidance part 12 has a threaded portion (not shown), can pass this hole and utilizelock member 13, for example: nut,guidance part 12 is locked on thesurface 111 ofsupport portion 11, andguidance part 12 has apassage 121, be used for making at least one ink supply pipe 21 (as shown in Figure 2) penetrating via 121 to make the part-structure ofink supply pipe 21place passage 121, in order to support and to limit the range of movement ofink supply pipe 21ink supply pipe 21 when ink cartridges prints running, wherein,guidance part 12 can be a circular ring structure in present embodiment, but not as limit.

See also Fig. 2, it is that fixed ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism shown in Figure 1 is applied to operation workflow schematic diagram in the printer, as shown in Figure 2, one end ofink supply pipe 21 can be connected with anink supply platform 22, the other end then is connected with ink cartridges (not shown) in being loaded into accontaining framework 23 in the passage 121 (as shown in Figure 1) of theguidance part 12 that runs throughfixed mechanism 1 back, so as to ink is delivered to ink cartridges in theccontaining framework 23 fromink supply platform 22, andccontaining framework 23 is to be loaded on thecarrier 24, the running of the ink gun of ink cartridges (not shown) is to cooperateccontaining framework 23 to move around in about the carrying out on thecarrier 24, as shown in the figure, whenccontaining framework 23 moves to as A, B, during diverse location such as C or D,guidance part 12 guidingink supply pipes 21 are along withccontaining framework 23 mobile carries out corresponding motion, and the range of movement ofink supply pipe 21 is limited in the passage 121 (as shown in Figure 1) ofguidance part 12, guarantee thatink supply pipe 21 can carry out ink supply smoothly and can not scatter or the situation of backfin and have influence on the running of other elements when ink cartridges moves.

See also Fig. 3, it is the structural representation of the universal type ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism of the present invention's second preferred embodiment, as shown in the figure, adopt the ink-supplyingtube fixing mechanism 3 of universal type mainly to be formed bysupport portion 31,rotation section 32 andguidance part 33,support portion 31 can utilize the mode of locking or engaging to be fixed in the surface of shell or the inside of printer equally,support portion 31 also has a storage tank (not shown) in addition, androtation section 32 can comprise anorbicule 321, it partly is placed in the storage tank ofsupport portion 31, with so thatrotation section 32 can rotate.

Guidance part 33 is fixed on therotation section 32 and has apassage 331, be used for making at least one ink supply pipe 41 (as shown in Figure 4) penetrating via 331 so that the part-structure ofink supply pipe 41places passage 331, in order to support and to limit the operational range ofink supply pipe 41, and guidingink supply pipe 41 carries out corresponding motion when ink cartridges prints running, wherein,guidance part 33 can be a circular ring structure, but not as limit, certainly, the invention is not restricted to the aspect of this first embodiment and second embodiment, the combination aspect that any energy support and guiding ink supply Guan Bingke carry out axle to be changeed is institute of the present invention applicable scope.

See also Fig. 4 (a)～(d), it is that universal type ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism shown in Figure 3 is applied to operation workflow schematic diagram in the printer, shown in Fig. 4 (a), one end ofink supply pipe 41 is connected withink supply platform 42 equally, the other end ofink supply pipe 41 then is connected with ink cartridges (not shown) in being loaded into accontaining framework 43 in the passage 331 (as shown in Figure 3) of theguidance part 33 that runs throughfixed mechanism 3 back, so as to ink is delivered to ink cartridges in theccontaining framework 43 fromink supply platform 42, andccontaining framework 43 is to be loaded on thecarrier 44, the running of the ink gun of ink cartridges (not shown) must cooperateccontaining framework 43 to move around about carrying out on thecarrier 44, whenccontaining framework 23 moves to as Fig. 4 (a), Fig. 4 (b), A shown in Fig. 4 (c) or Fig. 4 (d), B, when C or D position,rotation section 32 corresponding ink cartridges are along the drive ofink supply pipe 41 and rotate simultaneously, to driveguidance part 33 rotations and then guidingink supply pipe 41 along with the running direction ofccontaining framework 23 is carried out corresponding motion, and the range of movement ofink supply pipe 41 is limited in the passage 331 (as shown in Figure 3) ofguidance part 33, guarantee thatink supply pipe 41 can carry out ink supply smoothly and the situation that can when ink cartridges moves, not scatter and have influence on the running of other elements, also can prevent the situation of pipeline backfin.

In sum, ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism of the present invention is that the passage by guidance part supports at least one ink tube, and guides at least one ink tube along with the running of ink cartridges and carry out corresponding motion, and the present invention has following advantage:

1. ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism is with X, the Y of ink tube, the motion of Z direction when printing work Scope is limited in the passage of guidance part, can guarantee can not have influence in print procedure ink cartridges or other The running of element;

2. ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism has the function that supports and guide ink tube simultaneously, and it can effectively avoid supplying The China ink pipe is because of the running of ink gun and ink cartridges and movement scatters and then cause the action of other elements to be subjected to Resistance, inefficacy or fault, even undermine ink cartridges and disconnected China ink or the situation of ink leak when printing;

3. in addition, the rotation section in the universal type ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism can corresponding ink cartridges along ink tube Drive and carry out axle and turn to, and then drive guidance part and rotate, make the guidance part can be along with the running direction of ink cartridges And the guiding ink tube carry out corresponding motion, can effectively prevent thus ink tube generation backfin even Therefore damage, the situation of also avoiding simultaneously resolving China ink or ink leak takes place;

4. support by ink-supplying tube fixing mechanism and the guiding ink tube, make other yuan in ink tube and the printer The relative position of part and the motion that produces because of the driving of ink cartridges thereof are subjected to effectively restriction and obtain good Guiding, not only significantly reduced the fault rate of continuous ink-supply system, also relatively promoted ink supply efficient and The ink supply quality;

Claims (10)

Translated fromChinese

1.一种供墨管固定机构，适用于使用一连续供墨系统的一打印输出装置，用以支撑及导引至少一供墨管，且该至少一供墨管与该打印输出装置中的一墨水匣相连接，所述供墨固定机构包含：1. An ink supply tube fixing mechanism, suitable for a print output device using a continuous ink supply system, used to support and guide at least one ink supply tube, and the at least one ink supply tube is connected with the print output device An ink cartridge is connected, and the ink supply fixing mechanism includes:一支撑部，其固设于该打印输出装置上；以及a supporting part, which is fixed on the printout device; and一导引部，其固设于该支撑部上且具有一通道，使该至少一供墨管贯穿该通道，用以支撑该至少一供墨管，且导引该至少一供墨管于该墨水匣运作时进行相对应的运动。A guide part, which is fixed on the support part and has a channel, so that the at least one ink supply tube passes through the channel, used to support the at least one ink supply tube, and guide the at least one ink supply tube to the The corresponding movement is carried out when the ink cartridge is in operation.2.如权利要求1所述的供墨管固定机构，其特征在于该至少一供墨管与该打印输出装置中的一供墨平台相连接。2. The ink supply tube fixing mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the at least one ink supply tube is connected to an ink supply platform in the print output device.3.如权利要求1所述的供墨管固定机构，其特征在于该导引部是一圆环，用以支撑及导引该至少一供墨管。3. The ink supply tube fixing mechanism as claimed in claim 1, wherein the guiding portion is a ring for supporting and guiding the at least one ink supply tube.4.如权利要求1所述的供墨管固定机构，其特征在于该供墨管固定机构还包含有一锁固元件，用以将该导引部锁固于该支撑部上。4. The ink supply tube fixing mechanism as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ink supply tube fixing mechanism further comprises a locking element for locking the guiding part on the supporting part.5.如权利要求4所述的供墨管固定机构，其特征在于该锁固元件是一螺帽。5. The ink supply tube fixing mechanism as claimed in claim 4, wherein the locking element is a nut.6.一种供墨管固定机构，适用于使用一连续供墨系统的一打印输出装置，用以支撑及导引至少一供墨管，且该至少一供墨管与该打印输出装置中的一墨水匣相连接，所述供墨管固定机构包含：6. An ink supply tube fixing mechanism, suitable for a print output device using a continuous ink supply system, used to support and guide at least one ink supply tube, and the at least one ink supply tube is connected with the print output device An ink cartridge is connected, and the ink supply tube fixing mechanism includes:一支撑部，其固设于该打印输出装置上且具有一容置槽；a supporting part, which is fixed on the printing output device and has a receiving slot;一转动部，其部份容置于该支撑部的该容置槽中；以及a rotating part, which is partially housed in the receiving groove of the supporting part; and一导引部，其固设于该转动部上且具有一通道，使该至少一供墨管贯穿该通道，用以支撑该至少一供墨管；a guide part, which is fixed on the rotating part and has a passage, so that the at least one ink supply tube passes through the passage to support the at least one ink supply tube;其中，该转动部相应该墨水匣沿着该至少一供墨管的驱动而进行轴转，并带动该导引部转动以导引该至少一供墨管随着该墨水匣的运作方向进行相对应的运动。Wherein, the rotating part rotates corresponding to the driving of the ink cartridge along the at least one ink supply tube, and drives the guide part to rotate so as to guide the at least one ink supply tube to follow the operating direction of the ink cartridge. corresponding movement.7.如权利要求6所述的供墨管固定机构，其特征在于该至少一供墨管与该打印输出装置中的一供墨平台相连接。7. The ink supply tube fixing mechanism as claimed in claim 6, wherein the at least one ink supply tube is connected to an ink supply platform in the print output device.8.如权利要求6所述的供墨管固定机构，其特征在于该导引部是一圆环，用以支撑及导引该至少一供墨管。8. The ink supply tube fixing mechanism as claimed in claim 6, wherein the guiding portion is a ring for supporting and guiding the at least one ink supply tube.9.如权利要求6所述的供墨管固定机构，其特征在于该转动部是一球状体。9. The ink supply tube fixing mechanism as claimed in claim 6, wherein the rotating part is a spherical body.10.如权利要求9所述的供墨管固定机构，其特征在于该球状体部份容置于该容置槽中。10. The ink supply tube fixing mechanism as claimed in claim 9, wherein the spherical body is partially accommodated in the accommodating groove.

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