Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Daiju Yoshino

Daisaku Kamiya

Katsuhito Kato

Shingo Hattori

Shigeharu Kurita

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on paper, an operation unit, and a controller to receive an execution signal and control the image forming unit. The operation unit includes a touch panel display to receive a touch operation by a user, and to display an execution icon to be touched by the user to enable the operation unit to transmit the execution signal to the image forming apparatus. The operation unit further includes a cable connected to the operation unit to transmit the execution signal to the controller, an exterior cover configured to form an exterior, and an insertion member disposed on a side opposite to a side where the touch panel display is disposed on an outside of the exterior cover to pass fingertips of the user through when the user operates the operation unit while holding up the operation unit.

Image forming apparatus and operation unit for operating the same

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including: a connector having a connecting portion to which a USB memory is attachable; a support member configured to support the connector, the support member having a screw hole; a first screw hole provided on a main body of the image forming apparatus correspondingly to the screw hole of the support member, the first screw hole being for fixing the connector at a first position where the connecting portion of the connector is exposed from an exterior cover of the main body; and a second screw hole provided on the main body correspondingly to the screw hole of the support member, the second screw hole being for fixing the connector at a second position where the connecting portion of the connector is located inside the exterior cover.

Image forming apparatus including connector that is movable between two positions

An authentication operation of a communication device is facilitated without making an outer appearance of an image forming apparatus complicated. An image forming apparatusincludes an image reading portionfor reading an original image, an image forming portionfor forming the image on a recording material, communication devicesandcapable of communication with a storing devicefor storing information through rear-range wireless communication, and a mounting portionto which the communication devices are mounted, and the mounting portion is provided between the image reading portion and the image forming portion.

Image forming apparatus

A supporting member includes a first plate portion including a supporting surface, a first hole, and a female thread portion formed at an inner peripheral surface of the first hole; a second plate portion provided by hemming the metal plate member; a third plate portion provided by bending the metal plate member at one end portion of the second plate portion at substantially a right angle; and a second hole continuing between the second and third plate portions so that the screw threadably engageable with the female thread portion is prevented from interfering with the second and third plate portions. The second and third plate portions provide a bent portion therebetween positioned within a range of a nominal diameter of the female thread portion with respect to a thickness direction of the third plate portion, as seen in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction.

Supporting member, image forming apparatus, sheet feeding device, sheet processing device and image reading device

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a casing, an image reading portion, a first controller substrate provided on one of side surfaces of the casing, a second controller substrate provided on the side surface, wherein a component mounting surface of the second controller substrate is in a non-overlapping position with a component mounting surface of the first controller substrate, an electric wire configured to connect the first controller portion and the image reading portion, and a shielding member fixed to the casing so as to be provided between the electric wire and the second controller substrate and configured to shield electromagnetic radiation from the second controller substrate toward the electric wire.

An image forming apparatus includes a suction port, provided in a front side of a main assembly of the image forming apparatus, for sucking air; an air flow guiding portion for guiding the air sucked through the suction port; and a sound source, provided in a rear side of the main assembly so as to oppose a space connected with the air flow guiding portion, for generating a sound used to notify an operator.

The sheet stacking-aligning apparatus or the sheet processing apparatus includes a substantially horizontal stacking tray, a rear end aligning unit for aligning a rear end of a sheet bundle on the stacking tray, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the rear end aligning unit for aligning the sheet bundle when it is in an upstream position of the stacking tray, and the stacking tray is provided substantially horizontally. It is thus made possible to increase the stacking space, thereby increasing the number of stackable sheets and to achieve the alignment of the rear end of the sheet bundle with a simple configuration, thereby improving the stacking-aligning property of the sheet bundle on the stacking tray.

Sheet stacking-aligning apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus

The present invention relates to a sheet processing apparatus aligning and stacking a sheet comprising: a stacking means for stacking the sheet or sheet bundle; a conveying means for conveying the sheet or sheet bundle toward the stacking means; a sheet rear end aligning means for aligning rear end of the sheet or sheet bundle upon pressing toward the stacking means the rear end of the sheet or sheet bundle conveyed by the conveying means; and a controlling means for controlling operation of the sheet rear end aligning means. The controlling means controls the operation of the sheet rear end aligning means so that acceleration &#x3b1; of the sheet or sheet bundle by pressing of the sheet rear end aligning means satisfies a relation: &#x3b1;&#x2266;&#x2212;&#x3bc;'g and &#x3b1;&#x2266;&#x2212;&#x3bc;&#x2032;g; where acceleration of the sheet or sheet bundle by pressing of the sheet rear end aligning means at a time that the sheet rear end aligning means presses the rear end of the sheet or sheet bundle to align the rear end, is denoted as &#x3b1;, where gravitational acceleration is denoted as g, where coefficient of kinetic friction between the sheet or sheet bundle pressed by the sheet rear end aligning means and the stacking means is denoted as &#x3bc;&#x2032;, and where coefficient of kinetic friction between the sheet or sheet bundle pressed by the sheet rear end aligning means and the sheet or sheet bundle already stacked on the stacking means is denoted as &#x3bc;&#x2032;.

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Toride, Japan

Daiju Yoshino