Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Akihito Kameda

Satoshi Saito

Hiroshi Kubo

Kenichiro Morita

Jun Yamada

Takashi Fujii

Yoshito Suzuki

Ikuhisa Okamoto

Takeshi Akai

Shinya Kitaoka

Takehisa Shimazu

Kenji Hayasaka

Motoya Sano

Fumiyuki Heishi

Hiroaki Utagawa

Takuma Ariga

A sheet conveying device includes: a sheet housing unit that houses a sheet; a sheet conveying unit that conveys the sheet; a sheet detection unit that detects presence or absence of the sheet in the sheet housing unit; a sheet nipping unit that nips the sheet housed in the sheet housing unit; and a control unit. The control unit controls the sheet nipping unit to reach a nipping state to nip the sheet in the sheet housing unit upon the sheet detection unit detecting a sheet-present state, executes a power saving mode to stop supplying power to at least a part of the electric mechanisms when no drive command is input for a predetermined time, and controls the sheet nipping unit to cancel the nipping state before execution of the power saving mode.

Sheet conveying device, image reading device, and image forming device

There is provided an image-forming apparatus having a transmitting and receiving device for transmitting and receiving system information to a host computer by way of a data communication line; a detection device for detecting the amount of toner deposited on the photoreceptor in the developing unit of the image-forming apparatus; a counting device for counting the number of images to be printed; and a near-full detection device for detecting the near-full state of waste toner by using the detection device and the counting device.

Image forming apparatus

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Saitama, Japan

Akihito Kameda