Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nipro Corporation

Schering Aktiengesellschaft

Jun Miyoshi

Hiroyuki Nagai

Toshikazu Matsui

Keiichi Taguchi

Mitsugu Shibanaka

Nobukazu Otsuka

Masanobu Maeshima

Takashi Nakagawa

Haruo Yamamoto

Yasuhiko Kida

Takatoshi Nishimura

Yoshio Sugishima

Keiji Okumura

Tadashi Umeda

Shinobu Satonaka

Masafumi Aramata

Tetsuya Kagawa

Satoru Hayama

Hiromi Okada

Naoki Nakashima

Noriaki Okamoto

Yusuke Morikawa

Tadashi Kobata

Nobukazu Ohtsuka

Hidetoshi Tanaka

Makoto Iwaike

Adapter for transfer of medical solution

An adapter for mixing and injection of preparations comprises a cylindrical vial-fitting portion ( ), a puncture needle ( ) and a tubular tip-fitting portion ( ). The vial-fitting portion ( ) includes a top wall ( ) and a skirt ( ). The puncture needle ( ) is passed through the top wall ( ) and is integrated therewith. The tip-fitting portion ( ) is arranged coaxially to the puncture needle ( ) on the opposite side thereof to the top wall ( ). The puncture needle has a cutting edge on the side of the skirt ( ) and is provided at a proximal end thereof with a connecting portion ( ) for engagement with the tip-fitting ( ), which communicates with a lumen ( ) of the tip-fitting portion ( ) and is open to the cutting edge ( ). A filter ( ) is arranged in the liquid passage ( ) of the connecting portion ( ).

Adapter for mixing and injection of preparations

Image forming apparatus including a sheet finish-processing unit for finish-processing sheets discharged from a copying machine to which the unit is laterally positioned and stored thereby into a plurality of stacks. A sheet stack finish-processing mechanism of the unit, incorporating a stapler, is shiftable by an associated drive mechanism in the widthwise direction along the adjacent end of a positioned stack in storage. A sheet stack handling mechanism therein draws the end of the positioned stack into a finishing locale of the finish-processing mechanism, and subsequent to a finishing (stapling) operation, returns the finished sheet stack into storage. Thereupon, the stack is transversely discharged frontward of the image forming apparatus from storage, during which operation a subsequent finishing operation is concurrently executable; by such discharge a number of copy stacks greater than the number of stacking storages can be processed. The stacks are linearly inserted into and withdrawn from the finish-processing mechanism, eliminating the need for complex movements thereof, and allowing the finish-processing mechanism to be functional at a number of linear positions along the stack end margin. Furthermore, the sheet stacks are discharged to the apparatus front, wherein they are readily accessible for removal by an operator.

Sheet finish-processing unit in image forming apparatus

The present invention relates to a document pusher plate to be used in an image forming equipment in which a document pusher plate which can be freely opened and closed by a hinge mechanism is mounted on a document set plate of the image forming equipment and a document is fed to the position of exposure on the document set plate or delivered from the position of exposure by rotating or reversing document transfer means arranged at the side of a document feeding device in the document pusher plate. This document pusher plate is provided with a reinforcement plate at the side of the document transfer means at the rear side thereof, and one end of the reinforcement plate is linked with the hinge mechanism, thereby causing warping or deflection of the document pusher plate to be prevented, accomplishing low cost of the production and light weight, and causing the document transfer to be accurate and stabilized by means of an automatic document feeding unit.

Document pusher plate of an image forming equipment

An image forming apparatus has an automatic original feeder for conveying an original along a path to a transparent platen. This automatic original feeder conveys the original to a position where it lies between the platen and an original conveying device which is disposed on a frame which can cover the transparent platen. The frame is rotatably supported by a supporting member. This supporting member is attached movably up and down relative to the main body of the apparatus and it is elastically urged downward. This biases the original conveying device downwardly, so that the pressure applied to the original by the original conveying device is properly maintained, thereby ensuring reliable conveyance of the original. Clearances between the original conveying device and an original cover plate on the frame are covered with clearance covering members, thereby to prevent an outline of the original conveying device from appearing in a transferred image. The supporting member can be attached to the main body of the apparatus through an adapter member, thereby allowing a single model of automatic original feeder to be mounted on different types of image forming apparatuses. The original conveying device is reversible, the transparent platen has an inclined surface at its infeed/outfeed end, and the feeder has holding extensions which hold down the infeed end of the platen on opposite sides of the original's path.

Image forming apparatus with improved document feeder

A multiple sorter includes several sorter units disposed in series at a paper discharge outlet of an image forming apparatus. Each of the sorter units includes a paper distributing mechanism for distributing paper to several sort bins, and a first path change-over mechanism for changing over the connection of a paper lead-in path to either a paper feeding path to the paper distributing mechanism or a paper discharging path to a non-sort bin. The sorter also includes several bypass carrying paths, each provided across the paper discharging path of each of the sorter units and the paper lead-in path of another one of the sorter units which is adjacent to the one sorter unit in a serially connecting direction of the sorter units. The non-sort bin is provided on an upper portion of the bypass carrying path of each one of the sorter units so that the non-sort bin serves another one of the sorter units upstream of the one sorter unit. The sorter further includes several second path change-over mechanisms, each for switching the connection between the paper discharging path to the non-sort bin and the bypass carrying path.

Multiple sorter

The apparatus is for automatically transporting sheets of original to a reading position on a plane member of an image forming apparatus. The apparatus includes an assembly for setting in position or accommodating sheets of original, an assembly for feeding the sheets, a transporting rolling device and a guiding device. The sheet setting assembly is located beside the plane member. The sheet feeding assembly is for feeding a sheet from the sheet setting assembly. The transporting rolling device presses on the plane member of the image forming apparatus to transport a sheet from the sheet feeding assembly by means of nipping the sheet against the plane member. The guiding device is located at a place adjacent to the transporting rolling device and ahead or upstream of it, with respect to the sheet transporting stream, for guiding the leading edge of the sheet to the nipping position between the transporting rolling device and the plane member. A second guiding device, a discharge guiding device, is positioned upstream of the first guiding device and allows the sheet to pass by it in the feeding direction and acts to guide the sheet when being discharged. The apparatus may be applied to copying machines.

Apparatus for automatically transporting sheets of orginal

An automatic document conveying device for use with an image processing machine having a transparent plate on which to place documents. The device includes an opening-closing frame and a document table. A conveyor roller is rotatably mounted in the opening-closing frame. A document delivery device is provided for delivering sheet-like documents from the document table. The document delivered from the document table is introduced into a required position on the transparent plate by the conveyor roller. The rotation of the conveyor roller in the introducing direction is stopped while the introduced document is still between the conveyor roller and the transparent plate. A guiding device which permits advance of the document from the document table to the transparent plate but hampers movement of the document from the transparent plate toward the document table and defects it upwardly, is provided between the document table and the conveyor roller. When the conveyor roller is rotated in the carrying direction, the document on the transparent plate is deflected upwardly by the guiding device and discharged through a discharge opening formed in the opening-closing frame.

Automatic document conveying device

An area setting device for setting coordinates of two points in a diagonal direction in one or more areas to be copied by a photocopier utilizing key operation in sequence, in which different colors are used for coordinate display in each direction. The same colors as the coordinate displays are used for coordinate input indicators. All the points are memorized as to whether coordinates have been applied. A key input is accepted for the first point not having coordinates applied, and this converts the memorized condition. Key input acceptance and memory state conversion are repeated for all the points required.

Area setting device

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Osaka, Japan

Jun Miyoshi