Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Katsunori Masai

Yasushi Kamezaki

Hiroyuki Fujita

Kazushi Takimoto

Kiyoshige Kameda

Koji Maekawa

Yuji Yamashita

Masahiro Sako

Yasuhiro Hashimoto

Masanobu Takahashi

Hideaki Tomita

Hiroyuki Inenaka

An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a mobile terminal device. In the image forming apparatus, when a first short-range communication device receives second identification information after a first control device allows formation of an image on a recording paper sheet and storage of first identification information, the first control device determines correspondence or non-correspondence between the first and second identification information. In a power-saving sleep mode of the image forming apparatus, the first control device maintains the sleep mode in the case of the correspondence or cancels the sleep mode in the case of the non-correspondence. When short-range communication is enabled between the first short-range communication device and a second short-range communication device of the mobile terminal device, a second control device of the mobile terminal device allows the second short-range communication device to send the second identification information to the first short-range communication device.

Image forming system and image forming apparatus that perform maintenance or cancel of sleep mode

A copying machine to which a cooperative copying machine is connectable by a cable and which can perform a tandem function for distributing a job to the cooperative copying machine and causing the cooperative copying machine to execute the job. The copying machine includes a function selection input accepting circuit for accepting only function selection input relating to a common function provided in both the copying machine and the cooperative copying machine when a tandem mode is set, and a function setting circuit for setting the copying machine in order to perform the function accepted by the function selection input accepting circuit.

Copying machine having tandem function

A management system of image forming apparatuses according to the present invention includes a device for transmitting information about maintenance for each of a plurality of image forming apparatuses such as copying machines, and transmitting for example, the number of copies from the image forming apparatus to a centralized management apparatus. It further includes a device for determining, on the basis of maintenance information transmitted from the image forming apparatus to the centralized management apparatus, efficient performance of maintenance work, for example, the scheduled date of maintenance work for the image forming apparatus. The above described information about maintenance is related to the operation of the peripheral device. For example, if the peripheral device is an automatic document feeder, information related to efficiently performing maintenance work may be the number of sheets fed by the automatic document feeder, whereas if the peripheral device is a sorter, such information may be the number of sheets fed to the sorter.

Management system of image forming apparatuses

The present invention provides a copy service accounting device for simplifying a copy service process both for store clerks and customers. When a determined card-like sheet is inserted through a slit of the copy service accounting device connected to a copying machine, the copy service accounting device outputs a copy enabling signal to the copying machine. Data on a number of copies for each copy size is sent from the copying machine to the copy service accounting device, which counts up and stores the number. When copying is finished and a completion switch is pushed, the copy service accounting device calculates a total charge on the basis of the stored number and a unit charge on each copy size. The calculated total charge is printed in bar code form on the card-like sheet, which is then ejected through the slit. When the bar code is read by a bar code reader at a cash register, the charge is immediately registered in the cash register. Thus the copy service process becomes significantly simplified.

Copy service accounting device and system for printing a copy charge in

A management system of image forming apparatuses according to the present invention includes devices for transmitting information about maintenance of each of a plurality of image forming apparatuses such as copying machines, for example, the number of copies from the image forming apparatus to a centralized management apparatus through transmitting devices, and devices for finding, on the basis of the information about maintenance which is transmitted from the image forming apparatus to the centralized management apparatus, information for efficiently performing the maintenance work, for example, the scheduled date of the maintenance work of the image forming apparatus.

An image forming apparatus and an IC card are provided with a function of transmitting a signal with no contact with each other in a signal receivable range in order to prevent copying aggregation from being omitted due to forgetting to insert the IC card and to prevent the IC card from being left attached after a copying operation is completed. The image forming apparatus is brought into a condition where an image forming operation can be performed by receiving a signal from the IC card which is brought into the signal receivable range.

Image forming system including image forming apparatus which

An automatic document conveying device for an image-processing machine including a housing having on its upper surface a transparent plate on which to place a document to be processed. The device includes an opening-closing frame member mounted on the housing so that it is free to pivot about a pivot axis extending along the rear edge of the transparent plate between a closed position at which it covers the transparent plate and an open position at which it exposes the transparent plate to view; a stationary frame member to be mounted on the housing adjacent to the upstream end of the transparent plate; a document table disposed on the stationary frame member; a document sending unit for sending a plurality of sheet-like documents placed on the document table to a document carrying-in passage one by one; and a document carrying-in unit for introducing the sheet-like documents sent to the document carrying-in passage toward the transparent plate. A conveyor belt unit is disposed in the opening-closing frame member. The conveyor belt unit includes a unit frame mounted in the opening-closing frame member, a driven shaft a follower shaft mounted on the unit frame in spaced-apart relationship in the conveying direction, and an endless belt wrapped about the driven shaft and the follower shaft.

Automatic document conveying device for image processing machine

A sheet transport device is provided which has a sheet tray removably attachable to the body of an apparatus pivotally movably to an upright position or an unfolded position. The sheet tray has pivots projecting from the respective opposite sides of base end of the tray and each having a first width when the tray is in the upright position and a second width larger than the first width when the tray is in the unfolded position. The apparatus body has cutouts for the respective pivots, each having an inlet portion with a width larger than the first width and smaller than the second width and a support portion with a diameter not smaller than the second width. An elastic member is disposed close to at least one of the cutouts for restraining the pivot as positioned in the support portion from rotating from the unfolded position to the upright position by contacting the pivot.

Attaching structure for a removable sheet holding tray

An automatic document conveying device for an image-processing machine including a housing having on its upper surface a transparent plate on which to place a document to be processed. This device comprises an opening-closing frame member mounted on the housing so that it is free to pivot about a pivot axis extending along the rear edge of the transparent plate between a closed position at which it covers the transparent plate and an open position at which it exposes the transparent plate to view; a stationary frame member to be mounted on the housing adjacent to the upstream end of the transparent plate; a document table disposed on the stationary frame member; a document sending unit for sending a plurality of sheet-like documents placed on the document table to a document carrying-in passage one by one; and a document carrying-in unit for introducing the sheet-like documents sent to the document carrying-in passage toward the transparent plate. A conveyor belt unit is disposed in the opening-closing frame member. The conveyor belt unit includes a unit frame mounted in the opening-closing frame member, a driven shaft a follower shaft mounted on the unit frame in spaced-apart relationship in the conveying direction, and an endless belt wrapped about the driven shaft and the follower shaft.

Automatic document conveying device for an image processing machine

An automatic document conveying device for an image-processing machine including a housing having on its upper surface a transparent plate on which to place a document to be processed. The device includes an opening-closing frame member mounted on the housing so that it is free to pivot about a pivot axis extending along the rear edge of the transparent plate between a closed position at which it covers the transparent plate and an open position at which it exposes the transparent plate to view; a stationary frame member to be mounted on the housing adjacent to the upstream end of the transparent plate; a document table disposed on the stationary frame member; a document sending unit for sending a plurality of sheet-like documents placed on the document table to a document carrying-in passage one by one; and a document carrying-in unit for introducing the sheet-like documents sent to the document carrying-in passage toward the transparent plate. A conveyor belt unit is disposed in the opening-closing frame member. The conveyor belt unit includes a unit frame mounted in the opening-closing frame member, a shaft to be driven and a follower shaft mounted on the unit frame in spaced-apart relationship in the conveying direction, and an endless belt wrapped about the driven the shaft driven follower shaft.

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Amagasaki, Japan

Katsunori Masai