Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fumio Furusawa

Masaaki Tokunaga

Masao Ito

Nobuo Hyakutake

Katsuhiko Nakaie

Shusaku Yokota

Kota Ninomiya

Junichi Morooka

Tetsuya Fujita

Takashi Kawabata

Keiji Yamamoto

Osamu Uto

Shiroh Suzuki

Tetsuo Ishizuka

Yoshihiro Enomoto

Hitoshi Funato

Satoshi Fukada

Nobukazu Takahashi

Ryuji Hattori

Nobuyoshi Komatsu

Yasutomo Ishii

Ryoichi Tsuruoka

Satoru Torimaru

Takashi Fuchiwaki

Kazunori Numao

Junichiro Sameshima

Yasuo Nakamura

Masataka Konishi

Yukio Hayashi

Tomohisa Suzuki

Osamu Handa

Naoto Yoshino

Yasushi Kawahata

Masao Ohkubo

Masakazu Takahashi

Kazuhiko Miyazato

Akira Kamata

A detection device includes: an imaging unit that forms an image of an incident beam on an image detection unit; an emission unit that includes a guided portion that is guided to a guiding portion provided at the imaging unit and guiding an attachment-detachment operation of the guided portion, a positioned portion that is positioned in a positioning portion provided at the imaging unit, and an emission member that emits a beam toward a direction of a transportation path such that a beam reflected from the medium is incident to the imaging unit; and a setting unit that includes a positioned portion that is positioned in a positioning portion provided at the emission unit when a drawing unit is pressure-inserted into the image forming apparatus and a setting surface that sets a position on the medium at which the beam is reflected.

Detection device having detachably attached plural units and image forming apparatus having the same

A sensing device including: a sensing section having an illuminating section that illuminates light and a light-receiving section that receives reflected light of light illuminated from the illuminating section, the sensing section sensing an image on a recording medium; a housing that accommodates the illuminating section; a covering member covering the housing, that is freely installed at and removed from the housing, having a transmitting member through which the light from the illuminating section is transmitted; and a setting section disposed at an opposite side to a housing side with respect to the covering member, the setting section being freely installed at and removed from the housing, and having a setting surface that sets a position at which the recording medium reflects light, wherein, at a positioning portion of the setting section, the covering member is positioned at least in a direction perpendicular to the setting surface, is provided.

Image sensing device for sensing an image on a recording medium

An image processing device includes a body that has a first connection portion and a second connection portion inside the body; an image processing board that is electrically connected to the first connection portion, the image processing board performing image processing; a functional board that is disposed so as to cover a part of the image processing board on one side of the image processing board; a side panel attached to the image processing board at a position opposite to the first connection portion, the side panel being a part of a side surface of the body; and an extension board disposed so as to cover another part of the image processing board on the same side as the functional board with respect to the image processing board, the extension board being electrically connected to the second connection portion and independently attachable to and removable from the image processing board.

Image processing device and image forming apparatus

A detecting device includes a detecting unit that detects an image on a medium transported in a transport path. The detecting unit includes a light emitter, a light receiver, and a light adjusting portion. The light emitter emits light toward the transport path in which the medium is transported. The light receiver receives reflected light of the light emitted from the light emitter. The light adjusting portion adjusts a quantity of light received by the light receiver according to a quantity of light emitted from the light emitter.

Detecting device, detecting method, and image forming apparatus

A detection apparatus includes a transmission member that is provided facing a conveying path on which a medium is conveyed and that transmits light from the medium being conveyed on the conveying path; a detection section that detects the medium or an image on the medium according to the light which is transmitted by the transmission member, wherein the light is received by a light-receiving member of the detection section; and an opposing member provided on an opposite side of the conveying path from the transmission member and having at least one opposing surface that faces the transmission member. In a conveying direction of the medium, a length of the opposing surface is shorter than a length of a detection surface.

Detection apparatus and image forming apparatus

A recording material processing apparatus includes a recording material supplying device supplying a recording material, an image recording device recording an image on the recording material, a recording material transporting mechanism and a burr curing device including a pressurizing member for curing the burrs at the edge of the recording material. The recording material transporting mechanism changes a transporting state of the recording material at a predetermined transportation changing position. The pressurizing member is provided on a recording material transporting path between the recording material supplying device and the transportation changing position and is provided on the side nearer to the recording material supplying device than a trailing end position. The trailing end position indicates a position of the trailing end of the recording material in the transporting path when a leading end of the recording material in the transporting direction passes the transportation changing position.

Recording material processing apparatus having a burr curing device

A detecting apparatus includes: a transmission member that is provided facing a conveying path on which a medium is conveyed and that transmits light from the medium being conveyed on the conveying path; a detecting section that detects the medium or an image on the medium from the light which is transmitted through the transmission member, wherein the light is received by a light-receiving member of the detection section; an opposing member that is provided on an opposite side of the conveying path from the transmission member and has at least a first opposing surface that faces the transmission member; and a guide member provided at a downstream side of the opposing member in the conveying direction, and guides the medium downstream in the conveying path. The opposing surface is closer to the detecting section at a downstream side than at an upstream side thereof in the conveying direction.

Detecting apparatus and image forming apparatus

There is provided a detection device including: a detection section detecting an image on a medium conveyed along the conveyance path or the medium; a reference member that is disposed at an opposite side of the conveyance path from the side thereof at which the illumination unit is disposed and that is provided to be rotatable with a rotation axis direction being a width direction of the medium; a test face comprising one of reflection faces of the reference member; a position detection pattern provided at the test face; a focal point detection pattern provided at the test face, the focal point detection pattern enabling detection by the detection section of a focal point; and a depth detection portion provided at the test face, the depth detection portion enabling detection by the detection section of an illumination depth of the light illuminated from a illumination unit.

Detection device and image forming device

A detection device includes: a detection member that includes an emission member emitting a beam toward a transportation direction of a transportation path and a beam receiving member receiving a reflected beam of the beam emitted from the emission member, and that detects an image on a medium; a transmissive member that allows the beam emitted from the emission member and the beam reflected from the medium to be transmitted therethrough; and a support member that has an open portion blocked by the transmissive member, and that supports an upstream end portion of the transmissive member in the transportation direction of the medium at an upstream portion of the open portion toward the medium, an edge portion of a downstream portion of the open portion in the transportation direction being located closer to the emission member than a bottom surface of the transmissive member.

Detection device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a main unit and a process cartridge including: an image holding member rotating about a rotation axis; an image developing device to develop a latent image on the image holding member; and a supporting member formed with a side face spreading in a direction of the rotation axis to support the image holding member and the image developing device and be moved in the direction to be attached/detached to/from the main unit. The main unit includes a main unit connector positioned adjacently to a side face of the supporting member of the process cartridge attached to the main unit such that a face mating with a counterpart connector faces the side face. The process cartridge includes on the side face a cartridge side connector electrically connected to the main unit side connector when the process cartridge is attached to the main unit.

Image forming apparatus including main unit and process cartridge

An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium; a heating device that heats the image formed at the image forming unit, on the recording medium while recording medium is conveyed; a detecting device that is provided on a downstream side of the heating device in a recording medium conveying direction and detects image density and an image defect of the recording medium; and a stabilizing device that is provided between the detecting device and the heating device and stabilizes physical changes in the recording medium.

Image forming apparatus having stabilizing device

An image forming apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer body; a plurality of image forming portions; a secondary transfer unit; a recording medium accommodating container; a waste toner accommodating container; a first electrical part; and a second electrical part.

Image forming apparatus

An image formation apparatus for document production of reproduction which includes a plurality of paper feed trays T,-T,placed in overlapped relation at multiple stages from top to bottom wherein the length of the top-stage paper feed tray T,in the paper feed direction is formed shorter than the length of each of the paper feed trays T,-T,at lower stages in the paper feed direction, an image support,an intermediate transfer body B, and a secondary transfer device,placed in a tray upward paper feed side space Sa above the paper feed tray T,a fuser T placed in a top-stage tray side space Sb,on the side of the top-stage paper feed tray T,and an upward side space Sb,above the space Sb,and a developing unit D placed in the upward side space Sb

Compact image formation system having a plurality of paper trays

An image formation apparatus for document production or reproduction which includes a plurality of paper feed trays T1-T4 placed in overlapped relation at multiple stages from top to bottom wherein the length of the top-stage paper feed tray T1 in the paper feed direction is formed shorter than the length of each of the paper feed trays T2-T4 at lower stages in the paper feed direction, an image support 16, an intermediate transfer body B, and a secondary transfer device 31 placed in a tray upward paper feed side space Sa above the paper feed tray T1, a fuser T placed in a top-stage tray side space Sb1 on the side of the top-stage paper feed tray T1 and an upward side space Sb2 above the space Sb1, and a developing unit D placed in the upward side space Sb2.

Image formation apparatus for document production or reproduction

There is described an image forming apparatus, wherein a visible image retained on an intermediate transfer belt is collectively transferred to recording material by means of a collective transfer device including a transfer roller and a back-up roller. The recording material that has passed through a transfer nipping region is guided by means of a recording material guide member. In such an image forming apparatus, the intermediate transfer belt is set at an angle of 50.degree. or less relative to the reference line passing through the exit of the transfer nipping region between the transfer roller and the back-up roller among normals orthogonal to a line passing through the center shafts of the transfer roller and the back-up roller, in the area downstream from the transfer nipping region, and the recording material guide member is provided downward at an angle of 5.degree. to 20.degree. relative to the reference line L.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Fumio Furusawa