Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenichi Nakao

Kenichi Fujii

Yuki Nakajima

Kazushi Nishikata

Fumiki Inui

Shigeo Murayama

Takafumi Suzuki

Shinkichi Yamamoto

Mitsuhide Murofushi

Tomoya Uehara

Makoto Komatsuzaki

An item inspection system includes a portable system that reads information from a wireless device, a position estimation unit that estimates a position of the portable system based on reading of identification information from a first wireless device installed at a known position, and an inspection unit that inspects whether the item exists in a specific place based on reading of identification information from a second wireless device attached to an item. The portable system selectively operates in a first mode for position estimation and a second mode for the inspection. The inspection unit guides a user based on a position of the item and an estimated position of the portable system, and determines that the item exists in the specific place when the identification information has been read from the second wireless device in the second mode.

Item inspection system, inspection method, and information processing apparatus

An image heating apparatus includes a heater that includes a substrate having a longitudinal direction arranged in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which a recording material is transported, a heat-generating element provided in the substrate, and an electrode configured to feed electric power to the heat-generating element, and a terminal to be electrically connected to the electrode, wherein an image formed on the recording material is heated by heat from the heater. A conductive intermediate member including at least one layer is provided between the terminal and the electrode, and a first fixing region in which the electrode and the intermediate member are fixed and a second fixing region in which the terminal and the intermediate member are fixed are shifted from each other in the longitudinal direction.

Image heating apparatus and image forming apparatus having an intermediate member fixed to a terminal and fixed to an electrode at regions shifted from each other

A contacting portion of a shutter appears in front of a container opening to be at a position where the contacting portion contacts with a sealing member provided in an edge of a storage body opening of a developer storage body when the shutter is at an opening position, and is separated from the sealing member to move into a container frame when the shutter moves from the opening position to a closing position. A non-contacting portion of the shutter is provided on an upstream-side of the contacting portion in a moving direction from the opening position to the closing position and is positioned inside the frame when the shutter is at the opening position, and moves to a position where the non-contacting portion appears in front of the container opening without making contact with the sealing member when the shutter moves from the opening position to the closing position.

Developer container, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A movable member is movable with respect to a main body in conjunction with movement of an opening-closing member while changing a posture relative to the opening-closing member such that a gap between the movable member and the opening-closing member is gradually reduced when the opening-closing member moves from an open position toward a closed position. The movable member is configured such that when an article is inserted into the gap during the movement of the opening-closing member from the open position toward the closed position, a movement path is switched, by a reaction force received from the article inserted into the gap, from a first path along which the movable member moves while reducing the gap to a second path in which the gap is not reduced.

Opening-closing mechanism and image-forming apparatus

A holding member is rotatably axially supported to the apparatus main body, holds the sheet feeding unit to a rotational edge, and moves the sheet feeding unit to one of a sheet feeding position and a standby position and a gear train. By transferring the rotation of the opening/closing operation of the feed tray to the holding member through the gear train so that the sheet feeding unit is moved along with the opening/closing operation of the feed tray.

Growing community of inventors

Suntou-gun, Japan

Kenichi Nakao