Oki Data Corporation

Shinjiro Hara

Kenichi Egawa

Hidenori Ueda

Moriaki Fukao

A medium feeding device includes a device body, a tray that regulates and contains a plurality of kinds of media of different sizes in a loading area according to the sizes of the media, and a detection lever that detects whether or not the media are properly loaded in the tray. In a state in which the tray is contained in the device body, when the media are not properly loaded in the tray, the detection lever moves to a non-load detection position. When the media are properly loaded in the tray, the detection lever moves to a load detection position with a front end part being oriented toward the tray containing side, and when a pressing force is applied to the detection lever at the non-load detection position from the tray containing side, the detection lever retreats toward the tray pulling out side.

Medium feeding device and image forming apparatus

A development device includes a development part configured to develop a developer image on a surface of an electrostatic latent image carrier based on an image signal, a transfer part configured to transfer the developer image to a medium; and a guide part configured to regulate a contact of the medium, on which the developer image has been transferred and been exited, to a housing of the development part, and to guide the medium to a carrying path.

Development device and image forming apparatus

An aspect is a medium detection device to detect a slack of a medium to be introduced into a fixation device in an image formation apparatus. The fixation device is detachable from a part of the image formation apparatus other than the fixation device. The medium detection device includes a lever support provided at the fixation device, a lever supported by the lever support such that the lever moves or displaces when the lever comes in contact with slack medium, a sensor support provided at the part of the image formation apparatus other than the fixation device, and a sensor supported by the sensor support and configured to detect the movement or the displacement of the lever.

Medium detection device and image formation apparatus

A medium tray () comprises a medium support () connected to a medium feeding section () of an image recording apparatus () and receiving record medium (P), and a medium guide () extending from the medium support () and supporting the record medium (P) such that an angle of a rear portion of the record medium (P) is changed. A lengthy record medium (P) having a length greater than the medium support () is supported by the medium guide () with the rear portion thereof directed at a different angle so that the length record medium (P) is loaded in the medium tray () without enlarging an area projecting from the image recording apparatus ().

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Tokyo, Japan

Shinjiro Hara