Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Ryusuke Nakata

Tomonori Sato

Kazuyuki Koda

Isamu Adachi

Miho Morita

Tomomi Ishida

Kenichi Ishikura

Kenji Yamada

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Shinya Hasegawa

Yoichi Yamakawa

Taisuke Endo

Shinichi Ohba

Kohei Tachibana

Yuya Shiokawa

Kota Tomioka

Takahiro Iizuka

Daisuke Ishihara

Satoshi Noda

Naoyuki Kato

Shinnosuke Kondo

Akira Yamazaki

Kei Otagiri

Senggyu Cho

Munseok Yang

A document reading device includes: an image capturing member that captures an image of a document; a placement portion that is disposed below the image capturing member and that has a boundary line between multiple surfaces at a position at which the boundary line is covered by the document when the document has a maximum size that the image capturing member is capable of imaging and the document is placed on the placement portion; and a document reading member that reads the document that is placed on the placement portion.

Document reading device and image forming apparatus

A driving device includes: a frame disposed in the driving device to support a driven unit driven by the driving device, the frame including a first portion, a distance from which to an outer wall of an accommodation device that accommodates the driving device is shorter, and a second portion, a distance from which to the outer wall is longer than the distance from the first portion to the outer wall; and a driving unit disposed between the second portion and the outer wall, at least a part of the driving unit being away from the outer wall by the distance between the first portion and the outer wall or more.

Driving device and image forming apparatus

A document reading device includes an imaging unit that images a document, a placing portion that includes a first placing portion and a second placing portion and that has a placing surface on which the document is placed, the placing surface being formed by the first placing portion and the second placing portion, and a detector that detects an edge of the document that is placed on the placing surface by using a color difference or a luminance difference between the placing surface and the document. An end portion of the first placing portion adjacent to the second placing portion extends toward the second placing portion beyond an end portion of the second placing portion adjacent to the first placing portion.

A sheet containing apparatus includes a first container unit that contains a sheet having a first size and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a first end and a second end in a width direction of the apparatus are located at different heights with the first container unit installed in a sheet containing apparatus body when viewed in a first direction, and a covering portion that is movable to a covering position at which the covering portion covers at least a part of the first container unit in the first direction and an open position at which the covering portion uncovers the first container unit in the first direction. When viewed in the first direction, a tilting division line is adjacent to the first container unit and tilts with respect to the horizontal direction, and at least a whole of the tilting division line is covered by the single covering portion in the first direction with the covering portion positioned at the covering position.

Sheet containing apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section that forms an image on a document; a first ejection section that ejects the document on which the image has been formed; an exterior portion which is movable and a part of which constitutes an exterior of the apparatus; an entrance portion that is exposed by movement of the exterior portion and that constitutes an entrance for the document to be transported to an image reading section that reads the image formed on the document; the image reading section that reads the image formed on the document transported after the entrance portion is exposed; and a second ejection section that ejects the document which has been read by the image reading section. An ejecting direction of the first ejection section, an ejecting direction of the second ejection section, and a moving direction of the exterior portion coincide with each other.

Image forming apparatus having movable exterior portion on which document is placed on

An image reading apparatus includes a reader configured to read an image, and a movable member that is movable when the reader is not reading the image, and configured to move within a region where a fixed member fixed above the reader is not present on a movement trajectory of the movable member.

Image reading apparatus comprising a display on a rear side of the image reading apparatus that is not within a movement trajectory of a cover

An image reading device includes a housing that includes a transport path along which a document is transported, an opening and closing member that is attached to the housing in such a manner as to be openable and closable, a reading unit that is disposed in such a manner as to be positioned between the transport path and the opening and closing member and that reads an image from the document, which is transported along the transport path, and an opposing member that is disposed in such a manner as to be opposed to the reading unit with the transport path interposed between the opposing member and the reading unit and that is moved away from the reading unit in conjunction with an opening operation of the opening and closing member.

Image reading device and image forming apparatus

A multifunction peripheral includes an exterior member that corresponds to an exterior portion of the multifunction peripheral and that differs from an input unit that inputs an instruction for a program, a reception unit that receives an instruction for performing a process that involves an operation of the exterior member, and a notification unit that notifies a user of a position on the exterior member to be operated by the user of the multifunction peripheral when the process is performed in a case where the reception unit receives the instruction for performance.

Multifunction peripheral with exterior member different from input unit

A sheet transportation device includes a sheet loading table, a feeding unit that feeds a sheet placed on the sheet loading table, a first detection unit that is provided downstream of the feeding unit in a sheet transportation direction and that detects a position of a leading end of the sheet, a second detection unit that is provided upstream of the feeding unit in the sheet transportation direction and that detects a position of a leading end of a small-size sheet which is smaller than the sheet detected by the first detection unit, and a control unit that starts feeding the sheet based on a result of detection performed by any of the first detection unit or the second detection unit in accordance with a size of the sheet.

Sheet transportation device, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus

A sheet transport device includes a sheet transport path along which at least one sheet is transported to a nip defined by a fixing roller and a displacement roller, a sensing unit disposed on the sheet transport path, an opening and closing member that is movable between a closed position at which the sheet transport path is formed and an open position at which the sheet transport path is exposed, and a guide member that is attached to the opening and closing member and that moves by following displacement of the displacement roller in such a manner as to maintain a certain distance from the sensing unit.

Sheet transport device, image reading device, and image forming apparatus

An image reading device includes a document container; a document transport path; a reading member that reads an image of a document passing a predetermined read position; a skew correcting member that corrects a skew of the document; a first detecting member that detects the document; a second detecting member that detects the document; a correction switcher that performs switching in accordance with whether or not skew correction is to be executed at the skew correcting member; a skew-amount measurer that measures a skew amount of the document based on a first time period if the skew of the document is to be corrected, and that measures the skew amount based on a second time period if the skew of the document is not to be corrected; and a transport stopping unit that stops transporting of the document if the skew amount exceeds a predetermined skew amount.

An image reading apparatus comprises a reading unit including a document table, a cover portion covering the document table, an opening and closing mechanism having a first and second mounting portions and opening and closing the cover portion to an opened and a closed state, a covering member rotating about a rotating shaft of a member side and covering at least a portion of an exposed portion, and a rotating regulating unit regulating rotation of the covering member due to the weight of the covering member in a state where the center of gravity of the covering member is separated further from the cover portion than the rotating shaft of the member side, and where the covering member covers at least a portion of the exposed portion within a movement range of the opening and the closing of the cover portion.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Ryusuke Nakata