Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Satoru Nitobe

Kazuaki Takahata

Shinji Yamamoto

Shinichi Nishida

Toshinori Nakayama

Takayuki Tanaka

Noriko Sato

Kazuhisa Kemmochi

Masayuki Tamaki

Taichi Takemura

Hikaru Osada

Katsunori Yokoyama

Keisuke Abe

Masashige Tamura

Yuki Emoto

Takeshi Fujino

Masashi Ito

Rie Endo

Tsutomu Miki

Junji Yasuda

Shingo Horita

Kazumasa Shibata

Hiroki Kasama

Keisuke Arita

Takahide Onuma

Jiro Ishiduka

Yasunori Matsumoto

A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit to convey a print medium, a belt, a tensioner, and a control unit. The belt transmits a driving force of a drive unit to the conveyance unit. The tensioner is displaceable and makes pressure contact with the belt to generate tension. The control unit controls driving of the drive unit in a state where the tensioner is in pressure contact with the belt. The control unit performs first control in which the drive unit is driven with a first control value, which is not based on a driving amount detected by a detection unit. Where the detection unit detects the driving amount, the control unit subsequently performs second control in which the drive unit is driven with a second control value, which is based on the driving amount detected by the detection unit.

Printing apparatus and conveyance apparatus

Provided is a waste liquid storing container capable of reducing imbalance in the absorption of waste liquid in an absorber that absorbs waste liquid. The liquid storing container includes a liquid absorber that absorbs liquid, a casing that houses the liquid absorber, a discharge portion that discharges liquid down in a direction of gravitational force into the casing, and an introduction space into which the liquid from the discharge portion is introduced. The liquid storing container further includes a liquid divider provided inside the introduction space to divide the liquid discharged from the discharge portion.

Liquid storing container and printing apparatus

A damping component includes a base with an attachment portion to be attached to a vibrated member, a damping member disposed at an outer circumferential side of the base while being compressed, and a holding portion disposed at an outer circumferential side of the damping member and compressively holding the damping member. The damping member has rigidity lower than rigidity of the base and rigidity of the holding portion and has a loss factor, measured by a mechanical impedance method in a state being compressed between the base and the holding portion, of 0.05 or more.

Damping component and damping structure

A developer supply container for use with an image forming apparatus includes a shell having an air passage and a discharge nozzle, a developer storage pouch storing developer contained inside the shell, and a discharging nozzle for discharging the developer accommodated in the developer storage pouch to outside of the developer supply container. In addition, an air passage allows air to communicate between inside and outside of the shell, and a seal attached to the shell seals the air passage to maintain a pressure inside the shell in a negative pressure state which is lower than a pressure outside the shell. The developer storage pouch is deformed to discharge the developer by peeling the seal off the shell to permit air to enter the shell through the air passage.

Developer supply container and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording material and a fixing unit, wherein, in a case where an image is formed by using the toners of the plurality of colors, when a specific gravity of the toners is &#x3c1; (g/cm) and a weight average particle diameter of the toners is L (&#x3bc;m), the image forming unit sets a maximum laid-on amount A (mg/cm) of each color in the unfixed toner image on the recording material so as to satisfy the following condition: A&#x3c;&#x3c1;&#x3c0;L/30&#x221a;3, and wherein the fixing unit fixes the unfixed toner image to the recording material so that a dot spread amount (&#x3bc;m) of the toner image satisfies the following condition: &#x221a;(&#x3c1;&#x3c0;L/90&#x221a;3A)&#x2266;Dot Spread Amount.

Image forming apparatus

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Satoru Nitobe