Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Omron Healthcare Company Ltd.

Sharp Corporation

Shinji Nakazawa

Yoshiharu Yoneda

Tatsuya Inoue

Shinichi Takeda

Norio Tomita

Junya Masuda

Kohichi Yamauchi

Noriaki Taguchi

Yoshiki Doi

Shuhji Fujii

Masao Matsui

Koji Wakamoto

Kayoko Maeda

Hideaki Kadowaki

Nobuyuki Ueda

Yoshiteru Kikuchi

Yoshitaka Okahashi

Fuminori Miyoshi

Atsushi Ogo

Junko Yabuta

Kenichi Isomi

Nobuhiko Osoegawa

Hiroki Kanemitsu

Hidetoshi Atsumi

Shuichi Mochizuki

A low-frequency treatment device includes a pad including a through hole and a pad side electrode on a rear surface, a holder disposed on the rear surface side of the pad so as to oppose the pad side electrode, a body including a body side electrode and detachably attached to the holder, and a wiring member configured to electrically connect the body side electrode and the pad side electrode. The wiring member includes a first end portion connected to the body side electrode, a second end portion connected to the pad side electrode, and a conductive portion, disposed such that a portion of the conductive portion extends through a through hole, for conducting electricity between the first end portion and the second end portion.

Low-frequency treatment device, body for low-frequency treatment device, and combination of pad and holder for low-frequency treatment device

A low-frequency treatment device includes: a pad configured to be attached to a body of a user; a holder configured to hold the pad; and a main body portion configured to be attached to the holder. The holder and the main body portion are engaged, with a clearance of a predetermined distance for arranging the pad being formed therebetween. Electrical conduction established between a pad-side electrode portion included on the pad and a main body portion-side electrode portion included on the main body portion by coming into contact with each other in the clearance of the predetermined distance. At least one electrode portion among the pad-side electrode portion and the main body portion-side electrode portion can perform movement in a direction of approaching and separating from the other electrode portion and is biased in the approaching direction.

Low-frequency treatment device, main body portion for low-frequency treatment device, pad for low-frequency treatment device, combination of pad and holder for low-frequency treatment device

The present invention includes a guiding engagement portion configured such that a holder and a main body portion for supplying a low-frequency pulse current to a pad engage in a state in which the main body portion is attached to the holder, and the holder and the main body portion are disengaged in a state in which the main body portion is removed. The guiding engagement portion is formed so as to allow the holder and the main body portion to engage by moving in a direction of approaching each other during the attachment, and during the removal, disengage the holder and the main body portion by restricting movement in a direction opposite to the movement direction during the attachment, and allowing the main body portion to move with respect to the holder in a direction intersecting the direction of approaching each other.

Low-frequency treatment device, pad for low-frequency treatment device, main body portion for low-frequency treatment device, holder for low-frequency treatment device, and combination of pad and holder for low-frequency treatment device

In one embodiment of an image forming apparatus of the present invention, the image forming apparatus includes an opening/closing cover that is supported so as to be capable of moving relative to an image forming apparatus main body and opens/closes an opening portion of the image forming apparatus main body; and a unit installed so as to be capable of swinging on an image forming apparatus main body side of the opening/closing cover, in which when the opening/closing cover is opened/closed, the unit moves in a track that moves around a guide shaft of the unit, and in a track that moves so as to follow opening/closing of the opening/closing cover.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus provided with a resin frame made of a resin, an image forming unit and a fixing unit includes a duct for allowing air to flow between the image forming unit and the fixing unit. The resin frame includes a main frame to which the image forming unit is attached, and a fixing unit attachment frame that is separate from the main frame and to which the fixing unit is attached, and the fixing unit attachment frame has a duct portion that constitutes at least one part of the duct.

In one embodiment, an image forming apparatus () is provided with a resin frame () made of resin and an image forming unit (). The image forming apparatus further includes a first duct () that allows air to flow on one side of the image forming unit (), a second duct () that allows air to flow on the other side, and a third duct () that allows air to flow between the first duct and the second duct. The resin frame () has a first duct portion () that constitutes at least a portion of the first duct (), and a second duct portion () that constitutes at least a portion of the second duct ().

An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a resin frame composed of a resin and an image forming unit that is removably inserted in the resin frame. The resin frame includes a base having a supporting surface that supports the image forming unit, a guide portion that extends in the base in an insertion direction in which the image forming unit is inserted along the supporting surface and that guides the image forming unit in the insertion direction while limiting movement of the image forming unit in an orthogonal direction that is orthogonal to the insertion direction, and a side plate portion that is provided at a peripheral edge of the base so as to extend in a direction perpendicular to the supporting surface, the base, the guide portion, and the side plate portion being integrally molded from a resin. A mold opening direction of a mold for molding the guide portion is set to a direction parallel to the orthogonal direction, and downstream end portions of the side plate portion in the mold opening direction are integrally connected to each other and extend essentially parallel to the perimeter of the base.

Image forming apparatus with resin frame and method for molding the resin frame

This toner recovery unit is detachable installed to an image forming device, and includes a waste toner storage tank, a frame, opening/closing members, and a shift member. The frame is formed with discharge outlets and with a discharge passage which communicates those discharge outlets to the waste toner storage tank. The opening/closing members are rotated to opened positions in which they communicate the discharge outlets to the discharge passage, and to closed positions in which they interrupt such communication. And, along with the shift member shifting from an engagement release position in which its end portion does not engage with a fixing knob to an engagement position in which it engages the fixing knob, it rotates the opening/closing members from their opened positions to their closed positions.

Toner recovery unit and image forming device

In continuous printing of plural sheets of recording paper, a controlling section of an image forming apparatus corrects a writing position for a first sheet of recording paper in accordance with an off-center amount detected by a carrying position sensor with respect to the first sheet of recording paper. As for an nth sheet of recording paper, the controlling section corrects the writing position for the nth sheet of recording paper in accordance with an off-center amount &#x3b1;(n&#x2212;1) detected by the carrying position sensor with respect to an (n&#x2212;1)th sheet of recording paper. In a case where an absolute value of a difference between an off-center amount &#x3b1;n detected by the carrying position sensor with respect to the nth sheet of recording paper and the off-center amount &#x3b1;(n&#x2212;1) exceeds a threshold, the controlling section corrects the writing position in accordance with the off-center amount &#x3b1;n and causes an exposure unit to write again the electrostatic latent image at the writing position corrected in accordance with the off-center amount &#x3b1;n, instead of writing an electrostatic latent image at the writing position corrected in accordance with the off-center amount &#x3b1;(n&#x2212;1). This makes it possible to minimize a decrease in printing speed and improve accuracy of a position with which an image is formed on a sheet of recording paper.

One embodiment of an image forming apparatus according to the present invention is an image forming apparatus in which registration rollers are arranged immediately before an electrostatic latent bearing member and, after a carried paper is caused to temporarily stop by the registration rollers, carrying of the paper recommences with a timing enabling a leading edge of image information visualized on the electrostatic latent bearing member and a leading edge of the paper that has been stopped by the registration rollers to correspond, wherein, at a time of successive printing of multiple sheets, a carrying recommencement timing of an immediately subsequent paper is determined using information of a carrying recommencement timing of an immediately preceding carried paper.

Image forming apparatus conveying sheets based on previously conveyed sheets

A pair of registration rollers are provided upstream in a paper transport path from an image forming position, and a paper transport position detection portion is provided upstream in the paper transport path from the pair of registration rollers. When consecutive print processing on a plurality of sheets of paper is performed, a paper transport position in the paper transport path is detected by the paper transport position detection portion for a sheet of paper that has been set in advance among the plurality of sheets of paper. A correction amount of a position for image writing to a photosensitive drum is determined based on the paper transport position, and correction of the image writing position is performed based on the correction amount. Image forming on the sheet of paper is performed at the image forming position based on the image writing position after correction, and image forming on other sheets of paper after the sheet of paper that was set in advance is performed at the image forming position based on the image writing position after correction.

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Kyoto, Japan

Shinji Nakazawa