Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kazuhiko Yamakawa

Masanobu Deguchi

Hideaki Hagihara

Akihiko Taniguchi

Masakiyo Okuda

Shinji Kato

Junichi Kajiwara

Masao Matsui

The automatic document feeder includes a document tray, a document delivery tray, a document feed path, a feed roller, a housing member, and an ion generating unit. The housing member has at least an air intake portion and an air exhaust portion and is designed to accommodate a driving section therein. The ion generating unit is disposed laterally of the driving section within the housing member.

Automatic document feeder having ion generating function, and image forming apparatus provided with the same

A feed roller for feeding a document is disposed between a control panel and an original table on the top of a copier body. A document stocker provided rotatably relative to an original cover on the original table is rotated so as to cover the control panel, whereby the original cover is raised from the original table to create some clearance. In this situation, a document is inserted through the document stocker from a document inserting port. The document thus inserted is detected by the operation of a detecting lever, which activates the feed roller to convey the inserted document to the original table. As the rear part of the document thus conveyed is detected by the operation of the detecting lever, the feed roller is deactivated. In this condition, copying operation is carried out so that an image of the document conveyed onto the original table is formed.

Image forming apparatus with a document feeder

A copying machine having a plurality of blank lamps for removing charges on a non-used area of a photoconductor included in the copy machine for copying an original image includes a unit for generating a PWM signal having a variable pulse width, a unit for converting the PWM signal into a voltage signal based on the pulse width of the PWM signal and supplying the voltage signal, and a unit for controlling turning on and off of the blank lamps based on the voltage signal.

Copying machine

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Osaka, Japan

Kazuhiko Yamakawa