Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nitto-denko Corporation

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Hiroshi Wada

Masaru Yoshida

Yoshikazu Yoshimoto

Shigeo Nakajima

Tomonari Suzuki

Shinji Kanayama

Kazushi Higashi

Tadahiro Kiyosumi

Takeshi Sakaguchi

Kenji Takahashi

Mitsuharu Yoshimoto

Susumu Hanano

Shozo Minamitani

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Makoto Kojima

Katsuya Kume

Hideaki Tanaka

Shoriki Narita

Masahiko Ando

Takaharu Mae

Makoto Imanishi

Yasuyuki Tokunaga

Yoshimitsu Tajima

Yukihiro Ito

Masahiko Ikeya

Masanori Minamio

Takashi Shimizu

Takahisa Nakaue

Seiji Okada

Shuhei Tsuchimoto

Masahiko Miyazaki

Yoshiaki Tashiro

Atsushi Yoshinouchi

Naoyuki Ishida

Nobuhiro Nishioka

Masaya Nagata

Yoshifumi Okauchi

Mitsuhiko Yoshikawa

Hironori Daigo

Katsuhiro Yoshiuchi

Masataka Itoh

Tomonari Naito

Toshihiko Watanabe

Akiko Takahashi

Naoki Matsuoka

Junichi Inada

Susumu Takehara

Sinji Yamamoto

Eijiro Masaki

Takafumi Tsujisawa

Takeshi Yamanaka

Hiroaki Mashiko

Mitsuo Kuramoto

Motoo Mohri

Koichi Yoshida

Yoshikazu Soeda

Shoji Hirano

Kenji Fukumoto

Koichi Nakamura

Nobuhiro Yanagisawa

Michiyo Kasahara

Waka Hikosaka

Shin-ichi Kouno

Kenji Sano

Yuichiro Tanaka

Katsushi Okibayashi

Takeshi Hashimoto

Kenji Okamoto

Masafumi Miki

Toshiharu Konishi

Naozumi Ogawa

Toshio Hori

Naoyuki Nishiyama

Tetsuya Ichigotani

Shinzo Eguchi

Makoto Akita

Hiroshi Kitamura

Mizuo Komine

Naoki Nakayama

Kazuyuki Yagura

Yukio Chihara

Yasuhiro Kametani

Soji Ohhara

Daisuke Ujihara

Yusuke Kurimoto

Hideaki Ohtsuki

Toshiyuki Takahashi

Cheng Chang

Ryoi Hamaguchi

Akinori Tamura

Hinonori Tamai

Provided is an electronic apparatus including: at least one voice output device; and at least one control device, in which the control device performs event detection processing by which occurrence of a predetermined event is detected, confirmation processing by which whether or not data to be input in association with the event by a user is stored in a storage device is confirmed, voice urging data preparation processing by which, in a case where the data is not stored in the storage device, voice urging data that urges the user to input the data is prepared, and voice output processing by which the voice urging data is output from the voice output device.

Electronic apparatus, control device, control method, and recording medium

A toner case includes a case main body, a rotator, a transmitter and a lock member. The case main body is configured to store a toner. The rotator is stored in the case main body and configured to rotate around a rotation axis. The transmitter is configured to transmit rotation to the rotator. The lock member is attached to the transmitter and configured to rotate integrally with the transmitter. The lock member is movable between a lock position where rotation of the lock member with respect to the case main body is restricted and a lock release position where the rotation of the lock member with respect to the case main body is allowed.

Toner case, image forming apparatus and toner kit

A stacked sheet detection device includes a shaft, at least one first rotor, a second rotor, and a detection sensor. The shaft includes a plurality of attached portions that are formed in alignment along a width direction perpendicular to a discharge direction of sheets. The first rotor is attachable to any one of the plurality of attached portions. The first rotor includes a fitting portion and an arm portion. The fitting portion is configured to be fitted with one of the attached portions. The arm portion is formed to extend from the fitting portion toward the discharge tray and configured to abut on the sheets stacked on the discharge tray. The first rotor is selectively attachable to any one of the plurality of attached portions. The detection sensor is configured to detect that the second rotor rotates in the predetermined rotation direction beyond a predetermined first detection position.

Stacked sheet detection device, image forming apparatus

An electronic device is provided to allow a user to take a selfie while the user looks directly at the camera. A smartphone includes: a monitor; a camera provided at a display surface side of the monitor; and a CPU configured to control the smartphone. The CPU includes a display control unit configured to display, during image capturing of a subject by the camera, an object in a first display area on the monitor in order to lead gaze of a user of the smartphone to the camera, the first display area being located within a predetermined range from a location of the camera of the smartphone.

Electronic device for capturing images while user looks directly at camera

A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a housing, a rotationally driven conductive shaft, a conveyance roller, a drive transmission unit, a conductive bearing member, a conductive discharging member, a cover member, and a conductive grounding member. The bearing member rotatably supports one end side of a shaft in a sheet width direction. The conductive discharging member is disposed in the openings. The discharging member discharges sheets by contacting the sheets. The cover member is secured to the sidewall along the one end side of the housing in the sheet width direction. The cover member includes a conductive grounding portion for electrical grounding. The conductive grounding member contacts the bearing member and the one end side of the discharging member along the sheet width direction. The grounding member conducts the bearing member and the discharging member to the grounding portion of the cover member.

Sheet conveyance apparatus that ensures grounding of discharging member and conveyance roller with simple configuration, and image forming apparatus including the same

A sheet processing device includes a housing, a sheet stacking portion, a sheet discharge portion, a contact member, a conveyance unit, and an association mechanism. A sheet discharge portion is disposed in the housing and faces a space over the sheet stacking portion, the sheet discharge portion including a pair of discharge rollers. The contact member is disposed in the sheet discharge portion, and is movable to project into a sheet conveyance passage to come into contact with a surface of the sheet. The conveyance unit is selectively mounted in the space of the housing, and is configured to receive a sheet delivered by the pair of discharge rollers and convey the sheet. The association mechanism is operable to cause the contact member to recede from the sheet conveyance passage in association with the mounting of the conveyance unit in the housing.

Sheet processing device and image forming apparatus including the same

The one end portion and the other end portion of the support member have tapered portions, respectively, and thickness of each tapered portion is gradually reduced toward a center side from an end side of the support member in a longitudinal direction.

Image forming apparatus having a wavelike portion capable of expanding and contracting

The support member is provided at an intermediate portion thereof in a longitudinal direction with the wavelike portions having a wave shape when viewed from a width direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and having elasticity in the longitudinal direction.

Image forming apparatus including a support member with wavelike portions having a wave shape

A one end side mounting portion of a support member is fixed to an inner wall surface of a cover member by a U-shaped member. The one end side mounting portion has an insertion portion, which is inserted into a hole formed by the U-shaped member and the inner wall surface of the cover member, a locking portion, and a support front end portion. In the hole, the insertion portion is tiltable in a surface vertical to a shaft as a rotation fulcrum of the cover member. The support front end portion is provided at a surface thereof, which faces the cover member side, with an inclination surface portion which is inclined from a cover member side to an anti-cover member side toward a front end side and the inclination surface portion abuts the inner wall surface of the cover member at the maximum opening angle of the cover member.

Image forming apparatus having a U-shaped member for hooking a locking portion

A sheet feeding device includes a manual bypass tray, a pair of side-fences and restricting members. On the manual bypass tray, a sheet conveyed to an apparatus main body is placed. The pair of side-fences are arranged slidable in a width direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the sheet so as to mutually approach/separate on the manual bypass tray. The restricting members are arranged attachable to/detachable from the pair of side-fences. Each of the restricting members includes a first engaging part and a preventive portion. The first engaging part is engaged with the manual bypass tray to restrict slide of each of the pair of side-fence in the width direction. The preventive portion is arranged so as to be separated upwardly from the manual bypass tray to prevent the sheet on the manual bypass tray from uplifting.

Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus

A slide rail assembly includes a fixed rail, a movable rail, and a lever member engageable to the fixed rail. In a state where the movable rail is fully removed from the fixed rail, the lever member locks a ball retainer against sliding movement relative to the fixed rail. In a state where the movable rail is assembled to the fixed rail, the lever member releases the locking of the ball retainer. The lever member includes a pressure receiving portion projectable through a window portion of the ball retainer. During reassembly of the movable rail to the fixed rail, the pressure receiving portion is pressed by a pressing portion of the movable rail, so that the locking of the ball retainer by the lever member is released.

Slide rail assembly and image forming apparatus with the same

A composite structureof a resin-diamagnetic material, including a diamagnetic material layerand a resin layeris obtained by a method including disposing particles of a diamagnetic materialand a resinin a mold, applying a magnetic field to the diamagnetic materialdisposed in the mold, and moving the diamagnetic materialin a direction away from at least a part of an inner surface of the mold, and then curing the resinin the moldthereby to produce a resin-diamagnetic material composite structure.

Resin-diamagnetic material composite structure

A document carrying apparatus comprises a main body, and a reading guide member which guides a document in such a manner that the document comes into contact with a platen glass. The reading guide member is supported on the main body by two support portions disposed on the front side and rear side. The rear-side support portion energizes the reading guide member with the aid of an energizing member in such a manner that the reading guide member can be displaced in the directions to come close and move away to and from the platen glass, while the front-side support portion supports the reading guide member in such a manner that the reading guide member can be displaced in the directions to come close and move away to and from the platen glass in a space smaller than that formed in the rear-side support portion.

Document carrying apparatus

A sheet feeder has a tray on which a sheet to be fed is to be placed. A lift plate is at a feeding end of the tray and has a first end at an upstream side in a feeding direction connected rotatably to the tray. The lift plate is displaceable between a feeding posture where a second end at a downstream side in the feeding direction is lifted up and a retracted posture where the second end is lower than in the feeding posture due to its own weight. A biasing member gives a biasing force to an elevating member in a direction to lift the lift plate to the feeding posture. A lowering mechanism gives a pressing force against the force of the biasing member to lower the lift plate to the retracted posture.

Manual sheet feeder and image forming apparatus provided with the same

A transporting device moves sheet-like objects. The transporting device has an elevator plate mounted to be liftable and lowerable on a loading surface to load an object to be moved; a drive part to lift and to lower the elevator plate via gears; and a controller to execute a preparatory operation to operate the drive part in a direction only by a drive amount corresponding to the gear backlash during the time after the drive part has completed an elevator plate drive operation in one direction until the start of an elevator plate drive operation in another direction.

Transporting device and image forming apparatus

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Hiroshi Wada