Konica Corporation

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Naoki Otomo

Toshio Shida

Kazuhiro Hirota

Hisao Hosoya

Masanobu Kawano

Shigeru Okazaki

Shogo Kato

Atsushi Ogane

Yuji Kanazawa

Mamoru Tomotsune

Takanori Yoshida

Yukihiko Nishimoto

Kyosei Miyata

Kenji Matsumoto

Takashi Tamura

Takeshi Suzuki

Hiroyuki Honda

Mitsugu Nemoto

Yutaka Miyasaka

Shuri Mizoguchi

Hideo Isohara

Kenji Kato

Kazunori Katada

Jun-ichi Koiso

Yasuhiro Matsui

Susumu Tashiro

Atsuo Ohmura

Minoru Maekawara

Masato Ueda

Motozi Kawamoto

Hideki Endo

Hisao Sato

Yasushi Niizeki

Takeshi Sakabe

Toshiya Sato

Tarou Miyamoto

Kiyohari Nakagawa

Shun Kawata

An inkjet recording apparatus, including: a conveyance device including an endless belt which conveys a recording medium placed on an exterior surface of the endless belt; a recording device which jets ink onto the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance device; and a cleaning device to clean the surface, including, a flexible sheet member mounted more downstream in a conveyance direction of the belt than a position where the recording device is mounted, and a top of the flexible sheet member comes into slidably contact with the surface, and an elastic supporting member mounted at a side of the flexible sheet member; wherein when the flexible sheet member bends due to running of the belt, the elastic supporting member comes into contact with the flexible sheet member, and the elastic supporting member pushes the flexible sheet member so that the flexible sheet member presses against the surface of the belt.

Inkjet recording apparatus

A belt conveying device includes: at least three rollers, about which an endless belt to convey an object, is entrained, including an oscillation roller having a rotation shaft, whose one end is fixed and another end is oscillatably supported; a belt detection sensor provided adjacent to a side edge of the belt, which detects presence of the belt; and a belt skew controller which controls the oscillator to oscillate the oscillation roller according to a preset control value in a predetermined range to correct skew. The oscillator moves a rotation center of a movable edge of the oscillation roller along a tangential line of an ellipse having elliptical focuses corresponding to rotation centers of rotation shafts of the two rollers, other than the oscillation roller, positioned respectively in upstream and downstream of and adjacent to the oscillation roller in a belt conveyance direction.

Belt conveying device, image forming apparatus provided therewith and adjustment method of belt skew controller in belt conveyance device

A position adjusting structure for adjusting a position of a recording head with respect to a recording head mounting portion of a printer main body, the position adjusting structure including: a head mounting plane arranged on the recording head mounting portion; an adjusting member, which is transferable along a direction substantially perpendicular to the head mounting plane; and an inclined flat plane, which is arranged on either one of the recording head mounting portion or the adjusting member and is inclined against the head mounting plane; wherein, the adjusting member transfers the position of the recording head with respect to the recording head mounting portion according with transfer of the adjusting member.

Recording head position adjusting structure and inkjet printer provided with said adjusting structure

An image forming apparatus, having a sheet ejection section, provided in an upper portion of the image forming apparatus, for ejecting a recording sheet onto an upper surface portion of the image forming apparatus; a sheet post-processing apparatus for receiving the recording sheet, ejected from the sheet ejection section, so as to perform a post-processing operation upon the recording sheet; and a coupler for coupling the sheet post-processing apparatus with the image forming apparatus so that at least a part of the post-processing apparatus is located on the upper surface portion of the image forming apparatus.

Image forming apparatus in use with a sheet post-processing apparatus

In an ejected sheet stacking device for use in an image forming apparatus provided with a sheet ejection part formed in a hollow place formed so as to open to an outer housing of the image forming apparatus and with a sheet storing mechanism for storing sheets ejected from a sheet ejection opening of the image forming apparatus, the ejected sheet stacking device comprising: a plurality of sheet storing trays arranged in a multi-stage way in a vertical direction; an ejecting and conveying mechanism for conveying a sheet ejected from the sheet ejection opening of the image forming apparatus to one of the sheet storing trays; and a conveyance path switching mechanism for switching a bifurcating conveyance path which bifurcates the sheet ejected from the sheet ejection opening to lead to each of the sheet storing trays. The ejected sheet stacking device is mounted to the image forming apparatus in place of the sheet storing mechanism.

Image forming apparatus and ejected sheet stacking device for use therewith

Electronic copier

A process cartridge for use in an image forming apparatus, includes: a photoreceptor for bearing an image thereon; a processing member for image formation; and a heat roller included in a heat fixing device for fixing a developed image formed on a recording sheet. The photoreceptor, the processing member and the heat roller are integrally provided on the process cartridge which is attachable to the image forming apparatus.

Process cartridge for use in image forming apparatus

A two-sided copying apparatus includes: an image forming device for forming an image on a recording sheet; a fixing device for fixing the image on the recording sheet; a branching device for branching the recording sheet on which the image was fixed by the fixing device to eject outside the apparatus or to feed again inside the apparatus for a two-sided image formation; a plurality of holding devices each for holding one edge of the recording sheet fed again inside the apparatus, wherein the holding device temporarily stops while holding the recording sheet and feeds again in a reverse direction onto a transfer station; and a supporting and guiding device for supporting and guiding the plurality of the holding devices.

Two-sided copying apparatus including a reversing stop mechanism

An image forming apparatus has an optical device for image magnification change. The apparatus is provided with a fixed platen on which a document is placed, four reflecting mirrors and an exposure lamp by which the document is exposed and scanned, and a lens unit including a fixed-focus lens by which an image of the document is formed on an image carrier. An imagewise light emitted from a document is reflected by the first, second and third reflecting mirrors and is transmitted through the fixed-focus lens. The reflected light is projected into the image carrier by way of the fourth reflecting mirror at which the light transmitted by the fixed-focus lens is reflected. The lens unit accommodates the fixed-focus lens and is movable in the same moving direction as the first, second and third reflecting mirrors at the time of an image magnification change operation. A lens cam member is mounted on the lens unit. The lens cam member has a first cam surface for enlargement and a second cam surface for reduction on at least one side thereof. An operation member has a first operation member which carries the cam surface for enlargement operations, and a second operation member which carries the cam surface for reduction operations. An interlock member interlocks with the fourth reflecting mirror so that a moving amount of the first operation member when engaged with the first and second cam surfaces, causes a movement of the fourth reflecting mirror based on the movement amount of said operation member.

Image forming apparatus having optical means for image magnification

An image forming machine in which a detachable process cartridge having a photoreceptor drum is provided. On the frame of the process cartridge, a magnetic connector is provided, in which a magnet and an outer plate surrounding the magnet are assembled, and a leaf spring is provided between the frame and the magnet. The process cartridge is positively grounded through the magnetic connector when the process cartridge is fully inserted into the main body of the machine, due to the magnetic connection to a plate of the main body.

Image forming apparatus including process cartridge with magnetic

A fixing apparatus for use in an electrophotographic copying machine for fixing a toner image on the surface of a recording paper. The fixing apparatus is provided with a fixing means to fix the toner image on a recording paper, ejecting means to eject the recording paper after the fixation of the toner image and a correcting roller located along the ejecting path of the recording paper to correct a curl of the recording paper induced during the fixing process by bending the recording paper in an opposite curvature of the curl.

Fixing apparatus

In a copying apparatus provided with an automatic document feeder thereon, the automatic document feeder is installed above a platen glass and is openable and closable with respect to the platen glass which is provided on a frame of the copying apparatus. The automatic document feeder is fixed by a plural fixing brackets to both ends of the frame through an auxiliary frame. The rear side of the automatic document feeder is pivotally mounted to the apparatus and the front side is opened and closed.

Copying apparatus including an auxiliary frame

A clamshell-type copying machine for reproducing an image of a document. The copy machine has a body flame consisting of an upper half body, a lower half body, and a hinge-like connector of these half bodies. There are provided a first urging member, located in a vicinity of the opening, and a second urging member, located in a vicinity of the connector. Both of these urging member urge the upper half body and the lower half body to be separated from each other in which an urging force of the second urging member is greater than that of the first urging member.

Arrangement for facilitating opening and closing a clamshell type of

The present invention relates to copying machine, which comprises: upper and lower bodies which are bound by a hinge on one side, and a counterbalance mechanism installed in the vicinity of the hinge which works at the time of opening and closing the upper body within a predetermined angle, and stops functioning at the time of opening the upper body when the upper body opens beyond the predetermined angle.

Copying machine

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Hachioji, Japan

Naoki Otomo