Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Gakushi Tanaka

Yuji Kagami

Toru Yada

Yasuhito Tsubakimoto

Mitsuyuki Fujibayashi

Akira Nakashima

Kazuto Ishihara

Makoto Kikura

Yoshihide Ohta

Tsuyoshi Endo

Shoji Asanuma

Tomoya Tanaka

Akimitsu Obana

Hirofumi Sugane

Taiga Shoen

Masaki Kimura

A reading apparatus includes a main body that includes an original document plate and a reading portion configured to read an image from the original document, and an operation portion that is attached in the original document plate. The operation portion includes: a front face casing portion; and a rear face casing portion that is engaged with the front face casing portion at an operation surface. An upper end portion of the operation portion is as high as the original document plate or higher than the original document plate, and in an engaging portion of the front face casing portion and the rear face casing portion at the upper end portion, an upper edge of the front face casing portion has a shorter distance to the lower end portion of the operation portion than the upper edge of the rear face casing portion.

Reading apparatus with operation panel configured to reduce interference with handling of original documents

Disclosed is a drawing apparatus including: a base member; and a drawing member that is attached so as to be capable of being drawn and pressed in a reciprocating direction with respect to the base member, wherein the base member has a couple application mechanism that applies a couple for correcting skewing of the drawing member with respect to the reciprocating direction to the drawing member as a reaction of a force by which the drawing member is pressed, and wherein the couple application mechanism is configured so that a distance between action lines of two forces generating the couple becomes large as a pressing amount of the drawing member with respect to the base member increases.

Drawing apparatus and recording apparatus

A reading apparatus comprising a lower case, a reading portion, a drive portion and a stay is used. The reading portion moves between an open position in which the lower case is open and a closed position in which the lower case is closed and accommodates a reading sensor. The drive portion moves the reading sensor in a moving direction. The stay is coupled to the reading portion rotatably in one end and coupled to the lower case rotatably in the other end and moves a rotation shaft with in a direction orthogonal to the shaft. The drive portion is located outside a movable range of the reading sensor. When the reading portion is in the closed position, the stay is disposed in an area in which the stay overlaps the drive portion in the moving direction and overlaps the drive portion in height direction.

Reading apparatus and recording apparatus

A cassette comprises a sheet housing portion that has an opening in an upper face and houses sheets, a cassette cover that can be attached and detached and covers at least a portion of the opening, a first protruding portion that is provided in one edge portion of the cassette cover and protrudes toward a bottom face of the sheet housing portion, and a second protruding portion that is provided in the other edge portion of the cassette cover and opposes the first protruding portion, wherein the sheet housing portion includes a projection-shaped portion that protrudes toward the first protruding portion and a position regulating portion that has a gap into which the second protruding portion enters, and the first protruding portion is provided with a receiving portion into which the projection-shaped portion enters.

Cassette and printing apparatus

A recording apparatus, including: a recording portion; a case in which the recording portion is accommodated; and a cover which has a holding portion to be grasped at a time of carrying the recording apparatus at a position adjacent to the case, in which the case has a boundary wall surface extending in a direction intersecting with a bottom surface of the recording apparatus toward an inside of the casing, in which the cover has a contact portion that abuts against the boundary wall surface of the case in a vicinity of the holding portion, and in which the contact portion and the boundary wall surface are arranged in line in a direction that intersects with a direction of formation of the side wall, and the contact portion and the boundary wall surface abut against each other to separate between an inside and an outside of the casing.

Recording apparatus

A light emitting device includes first and second light emitting elements; and a light guiding member including first and second light receiving portion corresponding to the first and second light emitting elements and configured to emit the light received by the first and second light receiving portions from a light emitting portion via a light guiding portion. The light guiding portion includes a reflecting surface forming portion between the first light receiving portion and the second light receiving portion in the first direction. The reflecting surface forming portion includes first and second reflecting surfaces. The first reflecting surface is formed by surfaces having different angles including a surface that reflects the light from the first light receiving portion to a side of the first light receiving portion.

Light emitting device and light guiding member

A cabinet includes a first body side engagement and a second body side engagement mounted on a body and a first cover side engagement and a second cover side engagement mounted on a cover. Slide restriction faces of the first cover side engagement and the second cover side engagement come into contact with slide restriction faces of the first body side engagement and the second body side engagement, respectively, to restrict sliding of a slider when the first cover side engagement does not engage the first body side engagement. The slide restriction face of at least one of the first body side engagement and the first cover side engagement has a length that is greater than a length of the slide restriction face of other one of the first body side engagement, the first cover side engagement, the second body side engagement, and the second cover side engagement.

Cabinet, electronic device, and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, an image forming device provided in the apparatus body and forming an image on a surface of a recording medium, a cooler to cool the image forming device, a temperature detector to detect a temperature around the apparatus body, and a controller including a computing part to count a driving period of the image forming device and a memory to store a computed value obtained by the computing part as a counter value. The controller controls driving of the image forming device and driving of the cooler based on a detected temperature obtained by the temperature detector and the counter value. The controller adjusts the driving of the image forming device irrespective of the counter value to a regular driving speed when the detected temperature is lower than a reference temperature.

Image forming apparatus incorporating image forming device and cooling device therein

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming part configure to form an image on a sheet of paper; and a paper ejection tray, provided above an image forming part, including a supporting part configured to support the sheet of paper ejected after having the image formed thereonto by the image forming part, and a radiation opening configured to radiate therethrough heat from the image forming part to the outside air. The radiation opening is provided lower than the supporting part.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an exhaust fan, an exhaust duct, and a filter. The exhaust duct is configured to discharge a gas in an apparatus body to the outside thereof by using an airflow generated by the rotation of the exhaust fan. The filter is provided in a pathway of an airflow flowing through the exhaust duct, arranged substantially parallel to a ventilation direction of the exhaust duct, and configured to reduce chemical substances contained in the gas.

Image forming apparatus including filter substantially parallel to ventilation direction of exhaust duct

A switch actuation device includes a first actuation portion driven by a first moving member and a second actuation portion driven by a second moving member. The switch actuation device further includes a first lever, a second lever, and an actuator. The first actuation portion contacts the second lever to swing the second lever toward the actuator connected to a switch when driven by the first moving member. The second actuation portion swings the first lever to cause the first lever to move the second lever closer to the actuator when driven by the second moving member. The actuator is driven by a combination of the swing of the second lever caused by the first moving member and the movement of the second lever caused by the second moving member so as to turn on the switch.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Gakushi Tanaka