Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Nisca Corporation

Osamu Miki

Goro Katsuyama

Masaaki Kabumoto

Kanae Amemiya

Shigeru Horiguchi

Hideo Aoki

Akiyoshi Tanaka

Hiroko Suzuki

Kazuyoshi Yamada

Jo Wada

Masateru Kohno

Jun Sawai

Ryota Yano

Makoto Kurata

Tamaki Someya

Takuji Nakamura

Arinobu Ueda

Yoshihisa Minakawa

Masanao Takahashi

Yozo Matsuzaka

Makoto Sugita

Disc cartridge

An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes a substantially flat top face and a slanted front face, the bottom side of which recedes backward. The image forming apparatus may includes a paper discharge tray disposed at a lower portion of the slanted front face, the paper discharge tray protruding forward. The paper discharge tray may be tiltable upward and downward. Because the bottom side of the slanted front face recedes backward, the flat top face can be provided, and simultaneously, enough space for the feeding and discharging of paper can be secured.

Compact front-operable image forming apparatus

Battery charger

Copying machine with scanning and printing functions

Document feeder for a digital copying machine

A notch (recess portion) is proved on a front face of an ink cartridge, and a holding portion is set between a corner portion of the recess portion and a projection portion provided on a cartridge upper face. A cartridge can be held securely by nipping the cartridge between two fingers at both ends thereof (the projection portion and the corner portion) of the holding portion, even if the cartridge is a thin type cartridge, so that attaching/detaching of the cartridge to a printer main unit can be performed easily and securely.

Ink cartridge and ink jet printer

Printer ink cartridge

Scanner

Growing community of inventors

Kanagawa, Japan

Osamu Miki