Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Nec Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

The University of Electro-communications

Fujifilm Corporation

Amcon, Inc.

Yometel Co., Ltd.

Koji Wada

Masaaki Sato

Hiroyuki Munetsugu

Tsuyoshi Ogawa

Hiroshi Takarada

Yukio Kubo

Tatsuhiko Takahashi

Tomio Noguchi

Goshi Ozaki

Takao Sameshima

Daisuke Abe

Yosuke Kashiide

Atsuko Hashimoto

Takao Ozaki

Kensuke Sato

Masanori Kudo

Masakazu Miyasako

Susumu Nittani

Tachio Kawai

Mitsuo Makimoto

Kenichi Iida

Hiroshi Sunagawa

Yuichiro Inaba

Morikazu Sagawa

Katsuto Sumi

Daisuke Nakaya

Hideki Nagae

Akitoshi Toyota

Koji Fujinaka

Kenji Matsuzaka

Morio Fujiwara

Motoyasu Suenaga

Takashi Hashimoto

Hiroomi Matsuzaki

Yoshiyuki Batori

Takeshi Fujii

Yu Fukasawa

Tetsuo Uesugi

Takashi Kimura

Kojiro Yasui

Takahiro Inoue

Yoshiharu Sasaki

Masaaki Matsushita

Tatsuo Fujisaki

Yasutaka Inanaga

Junichi Matsumura

Takayuki Kanazawa

Taichiro Tamida

Atsushi Shiraishi

Yoshinobu Okano

Terutaka Endo

Noboru Wada

Naoki Hayashi

Hideaki Iijima

Kouichi Sato

Takeshi Kawakami

Takashi Kase

Masaki Furutani

Yusuke Usui

Shohei Katsuya

Shota Kase

Minoru Akiyama

Tetsuya Honda

Makoto Nakano

Takashi Yamasaki

Kazuya Torikai

Yasuhiko Satoyoshi

Nobuhiko Hirosawa

Sumio Shibui

Shin Wakabayashi

Kevin Ayemperoumal

Chaozhi Zheng

Kimitake Banno

A cartridge is configured to be attachable to a main body of an image forming apparatus and configured to receive toner supplied from a supply container. The cartridge includes a supply port configured to receive the toner supplied from the supply container, a shutter member configured to cover the supply port, and a locking member. The locking member is moved from a lock position to an unlock position to allow movement of the shutter member by using electric power supplied from the main body.

Cartridge, supply container, and image forming apparatus

A toner container includes a pouch configured to accommodate the toner therein and provided with an opening at a first end portion of the pouch with respect to a first direction, with a width of the pouch in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction being wider than a width of the pouch in a third direction that is perpendicular to both the first direction and the second direction. A first supporting portion supports the pouch on a first side of the first end portion of the pouch with respect to the second direction, the first supporting portion extending in a direction from the first end portion of the pouch to a second end portion of the pouch that is opposite to the first end portion of the pouch. A second supporting portion supports the pouch on a second side of the first end portion of the pouch that is opposite to the first side of the first end portion of the pouch with respect to the second direction, the second supporting portion extending in the direction from the first end portion of the pouch to the second end portion of the pouch.

Toner container including a pouch and portions supporting the pouch

A cartridge includes a developing roller and a frame configured to support the developing roller. A lever is connected to the frame, with the lever being movable relative to the frame, and with a part of the lever protruding beyond the frame. The cartridge also includes a memory board. and an electrode portion connected to the memory board. When the cartridge is oriented with the lever and the electrode portion at a bottom portion of the cartridge, the protruding part of the lever protrudes downward from the frame and at least a part of an exposed part of the developing roller is positioned above the rotational axis.

Cartridge, member constituting cartridge, and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a main contact, and a main guide, and a cartridge including a memory contact, a moving unit moving into and out of the apparatus body in a first direction and including a frame to which the cartridge is attached, first and second protrusions protruding in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction from the end surface of the frame, an intermediate contact being in electrical contact with the memory contact, an unit contact being in electrical contact with the main contact, and a line conductor, the first protrusion being supported by the main guide of the apparatus body, the second protrusion being located above the first protrusion. At least part of the line conductor connecting the intermediate contact and the unit contact is located in a recess formed by the first protrusion, the second protrusion, and the end surface.

Image forming apparatus with detectable cartridge

A cartridge includes a developing roller and a frame configured to support the developing roller. A lever is connected to the frame, with the lever being movable relative to the frame, and with a part of the lever protruding beyond the frame. The cartridge also includes a spring deformable in response to a movement of the lever relative to the frame, with the spring being positioned such that it is capable of exerting a first force on the lever and a second force on the frame. A memory board is provided and an electrode portion is connected to the memory board. A part of the electrode portion and a part of the spring are positioned in a plane that is perpendicular to a rotational axis of the developing roller.

A cartridge that is mountable to an apparatus main assembly of an image forming apparatus, the cartridge includes a developing roller; a frame supporting the developing roller; a movable part movably supported by the frame and movable to a first position and to a second position relative to the frame; and an elastic part provided between the frame and the movable part to urge the movable part. The movable part includes a first force receiving part that receives force from the apparatus main assembly, in a direction of moving from the first position to the second position, and a second force receiving part that receives force from the apparatus main assembly, in a direction of moving from the second position to the first position. When the movable part receives force from the apparatus main assembly at the first force receiving part and is at the second position, the movable part receives urging force from the elastic part in a direction of moving the movable part from the second position to the first position.

A cartridge includes a developing roller rotatable about a rotational axis thereof, and a frame configured to support the developing roller. A lever is connected to the frame, with the lever being elastically deformable such that a first part of the lever is movable relative to a second part of the lever and relative to the frame, and the lever protruding from the frame. A coupling member is configured to transmit a rotational force to the developing roller, the coupling member being rotatable about a rotational axis thereof, and the coupling member being movable relative to the frame in a direction of its rotational axis. When the cartridge is oriented with the lever and the electrode portion at a bottom portion of the cartridge, the lever protrudes downward from the frame.

An image forming apparatus includes a developer container to and from which a replenishment container is attachable and detachable, the developer container including an accommodating portion, and a supporting portion, wherein the developer container includes a projection portion that is provided at one end portion thereof in the rotation axis direction of the developer bearing member and projects toward the supporting portion more than a center portion of the developer container in a crossing direction crossing the rotation axis direction, the projection portion communicates with the accommodating portion and includes, at a distal end portion thereof, an attachment portion configured such that the replenishment container is attachable thereto in a state of being exposed to the outside of the apparatus, and a replenishment port for replenishing the accommodating portion with developer from the replenishment container is defined in the attachment portion.

Image forming apparatus having an opening/closing member that is prevented from closing when a replenishment container is attached to a process unit

In a solid-liquid separation apparatus, which comprises multiple movable members and screws that extend and pass through the movable members without contacting the movable members and which dehydrates sludge while conveying same by means of the rotation of the screws, to apply a wringing action on the sludge and increase sludge dehydration efficiency. (Solution) A first movable unitis configured by linking multiple movable membersA andB as a unit with a linking rod, a second movable unitA is configured by linking multiple other movable membersC andD as a unit with a linking rodA, and the movable membersA andB of the first movable unitand the movable membersC andD of the second movable unitA are reciprocated with a phase difference.

Solid-liquid separation device

A cable antenna an end part of which is connected to an oscillator that supplies a high-frequency current is disclosed. The cable antenna includes: an inner conductor; an insulating layer covering the inner conductor; and an outer conductor covering the insulating layer, wherein only one exposed part is formed in a middle part of the cable antenna in a longitudinal direction, the exposed part formed by removing at least the outer conductor, a distance L between a tip end of the cable antenna and an end of the exposed part on a side closer to the tip end is an odd multiple of a quarter of a wavelength λ, of the high-frequency current, the multiplier being three or greater, and a length G of the exposed part in the longitudinal direction satisfies the following formula (1):λ/20≤<λ/4  (1)

Cable antenna, gate antenna, antenna unit, automatic conveyor shelf and unmanned cash register

An image forming apparatus includes a developer container to accommodate developer containing toner, a developer bearing member to rotate while bearing the developer accommodated in the developer container and develop the electrostatic latent image borne on an image bearing member into a developer image, a detection portion to output remainder amount information corresponding to an amount of the developer accommodated in the developer container, and a notification portion capable of notifying a first state indicating that a remainder amount of the developer accommodated in the developer container is a first amount or more and a second state indicating that the remainder amount of the developer accommodated in the developer container is less than the first amount. The notification portion notifies one of a plurality of states including the first state and the second state on a basis of the remainder amount information output from the detection portion.

Image forming apparatus and image forming system

Image forming apparatus

A toner container for use with an image forming apparatus is provided with a toner accommodating portion in which toner is accommodated; a base portion including a receiving opening for receiving the toner accommodated in the toner accommodating portion, a discharge opening for permitting discharge of the toner, received through the receiving opening, to an outside of the toner container, and a passage which is a passage extending from the receiving opening to the discharge opening and which is for permitting passing of the toner; and a shutter constituted so as to be rotatable about a rotational axis relative to the base between an open position where the discharge opening is exposed to the outside and a closed position where the shutter covers the discharge opening, wherein the passage extends in a direction in which the passage is inclined relative to the rotational axis so that the receiving opening is in a position where the receiving opening crosses the rotational axis and so that the discharge opening is in a position where the discharge opening does not cross the rotational axis.

Toner container having a base portion with a discharge opening and a hole

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Yokohama, Japan

Koji Wada