Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Kazuyuki Tsukamoto

Shin Takeuchi

Katsumi Sakamaki

Minoru Ohshima

Minoru Yoshida

Ryuji Hosaka

Tomoo Fukao

Naoki Suto

Takao Furuya

Yoshinari Iwaki

Naoharu Kido

Kenichi Kobayashi

Tsutomu Udaka

Kaoru Yoshida

Tomoshi Hara

Ryuichiro Maeyama

Yoichi Watanabe

Ryuzo Okada

Koji Morofuji

Shinichi Tai

Koichiro Okamura

Satoshi Matsumoto

Minoru Oshima

Shinsuke Fujiyama

Junji Sugimoto

Yohei Shimokawa

Tomoharu Ogawa

Naoharu Kodo

Toshiya Iwamoto

The present invention provides a mold casting device including a raising and lowering mechanism that raises and lowers the upper mold; a die plate that is fixed to the upper mold; and a base member that is provided on upper end portions of the raising and lowering mechanism and supports the die plate from below.

Mold casting device

A length measurement apparatus including: a measurement portion that measures a sheet length based on a rotational amount of a length measurement roll for a first detection period in which first and third sensors detect the sheet, and a sheet length based on a rotational amount of the length measurement roll for a second detection period in which the second sensor and any one of the first and third sensors detect the sheet, the any one of the first and third sensors being disposed at a position opposite to the second sensor via the length measurement roll; and a whole length calculation portion that selects the sheet length nearer to integral multiples of the circumference length of the length measurement roll from the sheet lengths measured for the first and second detection periods, and calculates the whole length of the sheet by using the selected sheet length.

Length measurement apparatus and image forming apparatus

A sheet length measurement apparatus including: a rotating member that comes in contact with a recording sheet conveyed on a conveying path, and rotates along with the conveyance of the recording sheet; a rotation amount detector that detects a rotational amount of the rotating member; a fixing support member that fixedly supports an rotating shaft of the rotating member at a fixed position; an opposed member that is disposed opposite to the rotating member so as to hold the recording sheet between the rotating member and the opposed member, the opposed member being disposed so that the rotating member rotates along with the conveyance of the recording sheet; and a support member that supports the opposed member in a movable state in a direction to separate from or come in contact with a surface of the recording sheet.

Sheet length measurement apparatus and image forming apparatus

A sheet feed device includes an air flow generating part that generates an air flow for floating a sheet; a feed member that feeds a sheet by rotating, while applying a load to the top one of sheets stacked; and a transport condition sensing unit that is positioned not to obstruct an air flow generated by the air flow generating part and senses a transport condition of a sheet fed by the feed member.

Sheet feed device and image forming apparatus

A sheet supply apparatus has a sheet storing part that stores sheets, a sheet transport part that feeds the sheets from the sheet storing part and transports the sheets, a sheet separating part that separates the sheets fed from the sheet storing part, a sheet thickness measuring part that measures a thickness of the sheets separated by the sheet separating part, a sheet separating strength varying part that causes the sheet separating part to apply one or more of a plurality of sheet separating strengths to separate the sheets, and a control part that controls the sheet separating strength varying part to cause the sheet separating part to apply, from among the plurality of sheet separating strengths, one or more sheet separating strengths, other than a weakest sheet separating strength, during a time period which begins upon a start of feed of the sheets.

Sheet supply apparatus, image forming apparatus, sheet supply control method, and computer readable medium

There is provided a sheet feeding apparatus including a first feeding member that feeds at least one of the sheets from a discharge tray; a second feeding member that feeds the sheet fed by the first feeding member; a separating member, wherein a nip portion is formed between the separating member and the second feeding member, and when two sheets are entered the nip portion, the separating member separates one of the entered sheets from the other; an adjusting unit that changes a force of the separating member; a detecting unit that detects at least one of a distance by which the other of the entered sheets is transported beyond the nip portion and an advancing speed of the other of the entered sheets at the nip portion; and a controller that controls the adjusting unit based on a detection value of the detecting unit.

Sheet feeding apparatus having a separating member and speed detecting unit

A measuring device, wherein a feed-out member feeds out an uppermost one of plural sheet-shaped materials stacked on a base by rotating in contact with the uppermost sheet-shaped material, has a detector that detects a force imparted to the base and the sheet-shaped materials not in contact with the feed-out member, the force being generated by feeding-out the uppermost sheet-shaped material.

Measuring device, sheet-shaped material transporting device, image formation device and measuring method

This sheet multifeed determination device is capable of accurately detecting a sheet multifeed state, and the sheet multifeed determination device includes: a separating member side sheet speed detecting part which detects a transport speed of a sheet surface on the separating member side of a sheet transported to a nip unit of a paper feed roll and a separating member pressure-contacting mutually; a multifeed sheet detecting part which detects presence of plural sheets in the course of being transported through the nip unit; and a multifeed state determination part which determines not to be in a multifeed state of sheets when the sheet speed detected by the separating member side sheet speed detecting part is V&#x2266;0 and determines to be in the multifeed state of sheets in the case of V&#x3e;0 in a condition where the multifeed sheet detecting part detects multifed sheets.

Image forming device and sheet transport device

A sheet feeding apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a recording sheet from a storage unit, a separation unit, when stacked plural recording sheets are transported by the transport unit, separates a first recording sheet from the other recording sheets, and a push-back unit that can pivot from a separation action point to an end point of the storage unit and that pushes back ends of the other recording sheets to the storage unit during transport of the first recording sheet by applying to the other recording sheets a larger force in the direction opposite to the transport direction than a force applied to the other recording sheets in the transport direction, at a same time by applying to the first recording sheet a smaller force in the direction opposite to the transport direction than a force applied to the first recording sheet in the transport direction.

Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus

There is provided a sheet feeding apparatus including a first feeding member that feeds at least one of the sheets from a feeding tray; a second feeding member that feeds the sheet fed by the first feeding member; a separating member, wherein a nip portion is formed between the separating member and the second feeding member, and when two sheets are entered the nip portion, the separating member separates one of the entered sheets from the other; an adjusting unit that changes a force of the separating member; a detecting unit that detects at least one of a distance by which the other of the entered sheets is transported beyond the nip portion and an advancing speed of the other of the entered sheets at the nip portion; and a controller that controls the adjusting unit based on a detection value of the detecting unit.

Sheet feeding apparatus

A sheet feed device includes: a conveyor roller that rotates in a first direction; a separation roller rotatable in a second, reverse to the first direction, that nips a sheet with the conveyor roller; a sheet detector provided at a detecting position to detect a number of sheets; a pressure generator that generates a pressure to press the separation roller against the conveyor roller; a separation torque generator that generates a separation torque to convey the sheet on the separation roller in the second direction; and a controller that, if two or more sheets are detected, applies the pressure and/or the separation torque to the separation roller to separate the sheets until the detected number of sheets is decreased to be one, and that, after the number of sheets becomes one, controls the pressure and/or the separation torque to adjust a position of the sheet on the separation roller to a target position.

A magnetic actuator, comprising a magnet, mutually opposite magnetic poles thereof being arranged opposing each other, and a coil, at least one portion thereof being inserted between the corresponding magnetic poles, wherein a driving force for the coil is generated by applying an electric current to the coil in a magnetic field generated by the magnet.

Magnetic actuator with reduced magnetic flux leakage and haptic sense presenting device

A sheet feeder is provided, which includes: a sheet feed member and a separating member which form a nip portion by pressing each other, the separating member rotates following the sheet feed member when a first recording sheet is inserted into the nip portion, and rotates reversely when a second recording sheet is inserted while being stacked under the first recording sheet; a sheet detection unit which detects the recording sheet inserted into the nip portion; a direction detection unit which detects a rotation direction of the separating member; and a separating force adjusting unit which gradually increases a reverse rotation torque of the separating member from a initial torque after the sheet detection unit detects the recording sheet, and stops the increase of the reverse rotation torque to maintain the reverse rotation torque when the direction detection unit detects reverse rotation of the separating member.

Sheet feeder for feeding recording sheets while separating these

An image forming apparatus having an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium measures, downstream of the image forming part in a transport path of the recording medium, speckles on the recording medium, and generates measured speckle data that represents speckles measured; stores the generated measured speckle data in a memory part, further measures, upstream of the image forming part in a transport path of a recording medium, the speckles of the recording medium; determines whether speckle data representing speckles analogous to speckles measured upstream of the image forming part is stored in the memory part, and, in the case where the decision result is affirmative, recognizes that the recording medium for which the speckles have been measured is a recording medium on which an image has been formed on it previous to having speckles measured upstream of the image forming part.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuyuki Tsukamoto