Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Fujitsu Corporation

Kyosuke Suzuki

Hiroshi Takahashi

Takamichi Fujitate

Hirotsugu Shirai

A liquid supply device includes diaphragms, pressing members, a movement unit, a rotating shaft, and cams. In the liquid supply device, when the rotating shaft is rotated in a first direction, the cams are moved to arrange adjoining ones of the cams to have a phase difference around the rotating shaft, in which one of the cams selectively causes a corresponding one of the pressing members to regulate an increase in a volume of a corresponding one of the diaphragms. When the rotating shaft is rotated in a second direction, the cams are moved to arrange the cams in phase with one another when viewed from an axial direction of the rotating shaft, in which the cams simultaneously cause all the pressing members to regulate the increase in the volume of each of the diaphragms.

Liquid supply device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus has an internal paper-eject structure to provide an easy maintenance work and an easy operation for removing jammed papers. An internal eject part is provided above an image forming part. A conveyance unit is provided between the image forming part and the internal eject part. The conveyance unit includes a transfer device that transfers the visible image onto the transfer material, a fixing device that fixes the visible image and an upward conveyance part that conveys and ejects the transfer material to the internal eject part. The transfer device, the fixation device and the upward conveyance part are incorporated into a single unit. A front-side plate frame serving as a reinforcing member is provided along a periphery of a front-side opening of the image forming part and having a protruding part extending upward along a side of the internal eject part and having an opening corresponding to an outer configuration of the conveyance unit.

Image forming apparatus having a conveyance unit and a front-side plate frame structure of such an image forming apparatus

Three base station devices are connected to a base station control device in series. The payload of a cell storing data to be transmitted is partitioned into three areas, which are respectively allocated to the base station devices. The base station control device stores the data to be transmitted to corresponding base station devices in these three areas. Allocation pattern information indicating the allocation pattern of the payload is stored in the header of the cell. Upon receipt of the cell, the base station devices respectively extract the data addressed to the devices themselves based on the allocation pattern information stored in the header of the cell.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kyosuke Suzuki