Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Shigenori Morimoto

Yasuhiro Takai

Yasushi Nakamura

Atsushi Ueda

Kazuhiro Matsuyama

Hisashi Yoshimura

Kazuya Koyama

Takahiro Fukunaga

Norihiro Ochi

Hiroyuki Nagao

Shinichi Takeda

Masanori Yamada

Kohichi Yamauchi

Hidenobu Mandai

Kouzou Yamaguchi

Kazuhisa Yoneda

Hiromi Suenaga

Kohji Tsurui

Yoshiya Kinoshita

Takahisa Narikiyo

Haruo Sayama

Tatsuya Ogawa

Koichi Nakamura

Takashi Kikutani

Ryohsuke Sugiyama

Kouichi Fukushima

Takayuki Higashio

Kazuhiro Sakamoto

A heating cooking apparatus includes a main body, a door, a latch head provided at the door, a holding member provided at the main body and that holds the latch head to cause the door to be in a locked state, a door opening button, a door unlock key, a displacement transmission mechanism that transmits a displacement of the door opening button to cause that displacement to release the locked state of the door by the holding member, a locking cam that is movable between a limiting position at which at least one of the displacement of the door opening button and the transmission by the displacement transmission mechanism is limited, and a non-limiting position at which neither is limited, and a driving unit that causes the locking cam to move to the non-limiting position in response to an operation of the door unlock key.

Heating cooking apparatus

A cooking device includes a casing, a heating chamber () provided in the casing and having an opening on a front side thereof, and a heat shield member () for blocking heat that transfers from the heating chamber () toward the casing. At least a part of the heat shield member () is located in a position that enables the heat shield member () to receive water droplets dropping through between the heating chamber () and the casing (). The configuration reduces the possibility that a motor () and other components located below the heating chamber () fails by becoming wet due to condensate water.

Cooking device

An image reading device includes an image reading section, a frame, and an operating unit. The image reading section is configured to obtain image data by reading an image carried on a document. The frame supports the image reading section. The operating unit has an operating section including a plurality of input keys adapted to receive an input operation for controlling the image reading section, and an operating unit body supporting the operating section for displacement between a drawn-out position in which the input keys are exposed to outside and a housed position in which the input keys are housed inside. The operating unit is supported by the frame.

Image forming apparatus

First eccentric cams for abutting an inner circumferential surface of an intermediate image transferring belt, second eccentric cams for rotating as a unit with the first eccentric cams, cam followers for abutting a circumferential surface of the second eccentric cam, and transmitting members for holding image transferring rollers, moving in response to the cam followers are disposed within a loop-shaped moving path formed by an intermediate image transferring belt, which is stretched across a driving roller and a driven roller. The vertical position of the image transferring rollers, which are held by the transmitting members, changes in accordance with the abutting state of the first eccentric cams with respect to an inner circumferential surface of the intermediate image transferring belt.

Transfer endless belt device applied to image forming apparatus

An exposure device includes a transmissive member and a shutter. The transmissive member allows passage therethrough of a light beam directed toward a scanning object. The shutter is mounted so as to be pivotable around a pivot shaft between a closed position and an open position. The shutter has a first member and a second member. In the closed position, the first member shields the transmissive member, and, in the open position, unshields the transmissive member so as to allow the light beam to pass through the transmissive member. In the closed position, the second member is positioned above the first member so as to extend at least beyond peripheral ends, including a free end, of the first member.

Exposure device with a transmissive member and members for shielding the same

Provided is an image forming apparatus support structure which permits improvements in both strength and dimensional accuracy, and which can also accommodate increases in size. Because respective coupling member(s) and steel channel of respective post member(s) may be sequentially and individually connected, it is possible to improve support structure dimensional accuracy, it being possible to assemble support structure(s) such that deviation(s) in the respective coupling member(s) and the respective post member(s) offset(s) one another. Furthermore, steel channel is suitable for supporting load(s) in vertical direction(s). Moreover, respective coupling member(s) may serve as brace(s) when interposed between respective post members. Where this is the case, strength of the overall support structure may be made extremely high, and strain exhibited by the overall support structure may be reduced.

Image forming apparatus support structure

In an image forming apparatus in which positioned below a development unit for accommodating a toner is an exposure unit that writes to a photosensitive drum by exposing an electrostatic latent image, an aperture portion on an upper surface of an exposure unit case positioned in an optical path of light from the exposure unit is provided so as to not become an impediment to the optical path of the light and a glass plate is inclined and provided on the aperture portion. An inclination angle of the glass plate is set to an angle inclined 40&#xb0; with respect to a horizontal line so as to be greater than a repose angle of the toner when the toner has poor fluidity under a condition of high temperature and high humidity.

In a container, an ink exhausting detecting liquid permeable sponge and an ink permeable sponge are disposed with an isolation film therebetween. The ink exhaustion detecting liquid is oil based, and has a resistance value higher than that of ink, and a specific gravity smaller than that of ink. In usage, the isolation film is drawn out of the container, whereby the ink exhaustion detecting liquid permeable sponge is brought into contact with the ink permeable sponge.

Ink cartridge of an ink jet printer and an ink jet printer including an ink cartridge

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Shigenori Morimoto