US 11,987,053 B2
Liquid discharge apparatus
Satoshi Kunioka, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Satoshi Kunioka, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/517,668.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-184854 (JP), filed on Nov. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0134744 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/145 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/145 (2013.01) 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid discharge apparatus comprising:
a holder;
liquid dischargers secured relative to the holder, the liquid dischargers being arranged side by side in a vertical arrangement direction, the liquid dischargers to discharge liquid in a discharge direction; and
liquid conveyors respectively corresponding to the liquid dischargers; and
couplings for coupling the respective liquid conveyors,
wherein one of the liquid conveyors of a lower one of the liquid dischargers is longer in a direction intersecting the vertical arrangement direction than another one of the liquid conveyors of an upper one of the liquid dischargers above the lower one of the liquid dischargers,
wherein:
during a removal of the liquid dischargers from the holder, the liquid conveyors remain connected to the liquid dischargers due to a flexibility and a difference in length of the liquid conveyors, and
all portions of each of the liquid conveyors extend in a direction generally parallel to the discharge direction.