Nec Engineering, Ltd.

Nec Access Technica, Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Keisuke Hatomi

Namie Sugiyama

Kohshi Takano

Hiroyuki Okada

Satoshi Komatsu

Kenichi Ohkawa

An angle adjustment device, include a fixed portion; a movable portion; a connection portion which rotatably connects the movable portion to the fixed portion; and an elastic member which is arranged between the movable portion and the fixed portion and restricts rotational movement of the movable portion with kinetic friction generated between the movable portion and the fixed portion.

Image reading system using an angle adjustment device

An optical moduleincludes an optical path unitincluding a plurality of reflectorsfor securing an optical path of reflected light from a manuscript, an image processing unitincluding a reading devicewhich reads image information on the manuscript based on the reflected light from the manuscript entered via the optical path, and a connecting componentwhich connects the optical path unitand the image processing unitso that their positional relation will become a prescribed state.

Optical module, an image reader and an assembling method of an optical module

An optical device equipped with a mirror which reflects light, include a plurality of first receiving parts that touch one face of one of ends in a lengthwise direction of the mirror; a plurality of first pressing parts that touch a face opposing to the face to which the first receiving parts touch, and press the mirror with elastic force toward the first receiving parts.

Optical device, image reading apparatus and adjusting method for optical device

An automatic sheet feeder for an image forming apparatus includes a tray to be loaded with a stack of sheets, a side guide for preventing the sheets from skewing, and a sheet feeding mechanism for sequentially picking up and feeding the sheets, the top sheet being first. The tray includes an abutment parallel to a direction of sheet conveyance. The stack of sheets abut against the abutment at one side thereof. The side guide is movable toward and away from the abutment in matching relation to the size of the sheets. The sheet feeding mechanism is positioned at the intermediate between the abutment and the position of the side guide matching with sheets of minimum size available with the sheet feeder.

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Tokyo, Japan

Keisuke Hatomi