Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Shouichi Maeda

Junichi Asaoka

Takashi Abe

Michio Tada

Yoshinori Koike

Minoru Arimitsu

Toshiyuki Kazama

Tatsunori Izawa

Shun Yashima

Naoto Nishi

Ryoji Watanabe

Yoshinobu Nakamura

Makoto Ochiai

Satoshi Kanou

Naohito Otsuki

Takuya Mori

Yusuke Itozaki

Shinji Yaginuma

Takayuki Yazawa

Yoshinori Shuin

Yousuke Hasegawa

Yuki Kawazoe

Tomohiro Yokoyama

Youichi Yamakawa

Koki Adachi

Transport apparatus

A transport device includes a body unit, an accommodating unit that accommodates a recording medium and is mounted to be reciprocal with respect to the body unit, a pair of guide members that come in contact with end portions, in a width direction, of the recording medium to position the recording medium, the width direction intersecting with a transport direction of the recording medium, a first rail that is attached to the accommodating unit and guides reciprocation of the accommodating unit, and a second rail that is attached to the body unit to be movable in a direction, which intersects with a reciprocation direction of the accommodating unit, the second rail being assembled to the body unit to be slidable with respect to the first rail.

Transport device

Provided is an image forming apparatus including a main body that is provided with an insertion hole, and forms an image on a recording medium, and an insertion container in which the recording medium is stored, and that is inserted into the insertion hole, wherein the insertion container includes a first part, a second part that extends rearward in a direction of the insertion from the first part, and that is movable forward and backward in the insertion direction with respect to the first part, a fastening tool that fastens the second part to the first part, a releasing tool that releases the fastening tool when grasped, and that moves forward and backward with the second part, and a protruding tool that protrudes from the second part to the main body when the releasing tool is grasped, and that prevents the second part from being inserted into the insertion hole.

Image forming apparatus, and insertion container

Provided is a transporting device including a transport section that contacts with a material to be transported and that transports the material to be transported, a table on which the material to be transported is placed, a moving member that includes the table provided on an upper surface of the moving member so that an upper surface of the table is higher than the upper surface of the moving member in a vertical direction and moves the material to be transported, which is placed on the table, to a contact position where the material to be transported contacts with the transport section, and a positioning member that contacts with an end portion of the material to be transported in a width direction orthogonal to a transport direction in which the material to be transported is transported by the transport section.

Transporting device, and image forming apparatus

A medium transporting device includes: a transporting path; a contacted member that is provided on the transporting path to be movable in a medium width direction orthogonal to a medium transporting direction; a line-up member on the transporting path that lines up a position of the medium by sending the medium transported on the transporting path to the contacted member to bring the end of the medium in the medium width direction into contact with the contacted member; a displacement amount calculation unit that sets on a downstream side of the line-up member in the medium transporting direction, and calculates a misregistration amount of the medium in the medium width direction; and a contacted position control unit that controls a position of the contacted member by moving the contacted member in a direction of reducing the misregistration amount.

Medium transporting device and image forming device

An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device including a pair of first rotating members; a first transport path having a curved portion where a recording medium is curved, the first transport path being for transporting the recording medium to which the image is fixed by the pair of first rotating members; a first transporting section including a pair of second rotating members provided downstream from the curved portion of the first transport path; and a controller that controls so that, while the recording medium is interposed between the pair of first rotating members and the pair of second rotating members, a peripheral velocity of the second rotating members and a peripheral velocity of the first rotating members are reduced at the same time, or the peripheral velocity of the second rotating members is reduced before reducing the peripheral velocity of the first rotating members.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a transporting section including a transport path for transporting a recording medium; an image forming unit that forms an image on the recording medium that is transported at the transporting section; a fixing device that fixes the image formed on the recording medium at the image forming unit while heating the image; and a controller that performs control so that Pw&#x3c;Pw+Pwis set and so that a forced transporting operation of the transporting section is performed before starting or after ending a preparation operation of the fixing device, where Pwis electric power for the preparation operation including increasing a temperature of the fixing device, Pwis electric power for the forced transporting operation of forcedly transporting the recording medium jammed in the transporting section, and Pw is a specified value of electric power consumption.

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium; a fixing device that fixes the image formed on the recording medium at the image forming unit while nipping and transporting the image formed on the recording medium at the image forming unit; a transporting section provided downstream from the fixing device in a direction of transportation of the recording medium, the transporting section nipping and transporting the recording medium; and a controller that performs control for changing a transporting velocity of the fixing device and a transporting velocity of the transporting section on the basis of information used for triggering a change in the transporting velocity of the fixing device when the recording medium is held by the fixing device and the transporting section.

Image forming apparatus that controls a transporting velocity of a transporter

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium; a fixing device that nips the recording medium and that rotates at a first peripheral velocity, to transport the recording medium, and to fix the image to the recording medium; a transport path; a first transporting section that rotates at a second peripheral velocity, and nips and transports the recording medium to which the image is fixed; a second transporting section that rotates at a third peripheral velocity, and nips and transports the recording medium to which the image is fixed; a detecting unit that detects a move-out timing; and a controller that controls a peripheral velocity of the second transporting section so as to be greater than the third peripheral velocity and less than the second peripheral velocity in accordance with the timing detected by the detecting unit.

Image forming apparatus with a transporting controller

A recording material moving device comprises: a position adjuster that moves a recording material in a direction which is parallel to a recording surface of the recording material and orthogonal to a transporting direction, in an upstream side of a recording position along the transport direction of the recording material; a reference position specifying unit that specifies a reference position; a determination unit that determines whether a range of a predetermined width centered on the reference position exceeds a movable range of the recording material within which the recording material can be moved by the position adjuster; and a controller that causes, if the determination unit determines that the movable range is not exceeded, the position adjuster to sequentially move the recording material within the movable range of the predetermined width centered on the reference position each time a condition for moving the recording material is satisfied.

Recording material moving device to position a record material within a movable range of a predetermined width and image forming device

A recording sheet moving device includes: a moving unit that moves a recording sheet; a recording sheet specifying unit that specifies a length in the transport direction and a weight per unit area of the recording sheet; a first memory configured to record, for each of plural recording sheets, a threshold for a length in the transport direction in association with a weight per unit area; and a movement control unit that retrieves a threshold for a length on the basis of the specified weight per unit area from the first memory, and compares the retrieved threshold for a length and the specified length, to determine whether to cause the moving unit to move the recording sheet, and if it is determined that the recording sheet should be moved, causes the moving unit to move the recording sheet.

Recording sheet moving device, image forming device, and recording sheet moving method

A recording medium transport apparatus includes: plural storage units each storing a recording medium; a transport unit that transports the recording medium from one of the storage units to a recording position where an image is recorded on the recording medium; a memory that stores a reference position of a recording medium prescribed for each storage unit; a measuring unit that measures a position of the transported recording medium; and a movement unit that reads the reference position corresponding to the storage unit that stored the transported recording medium, from the memory, and moves the recording medium according to the difference between the reference position and the measured position such that the position of the recording medium approaches the reference position when the recording medium is located upstream of the recording position in the transport direction thereof.

Recording medium transport apparatus and image forming apparatus

In driving method and system for an electrical rotating machine, the electrical rotating machine comprising two rotors, each rotor being independently driven by means of a compound current generated by a multi-phase inverter, and a stator on which a plurality of stator coils are wound, the respective stator coils are divided into a plurality of groups thereof, a total current sum of each group thereof being zeroed and neutral points of the stators belonging to the respective groups being interconnected and drive pulses are supplied to a plurality of inverter arms of the inverter associated with one group of the stator coils independently of those supplied to other inverter arms of the inverter associated with the other group of the stator coils.

Driving method and system for electrical rotating machine having two rotors using compound current

A current detection device used for a plurality of rotating electric machines is provided. The rotating electric machines are supplied with a composite current containing a plurality of frequency components from an single inverter and the frequency is set in response to the rotational angular velocity of one rotating electric machine. The current detection device is provided with a current sensor which detects only current components at a single frequency in the composite current. The current sensor detects the currents in a set of supply lines, the supply lines of which being collected and passing through the current sensor so that the current components of the frequency different from the single frequency cancel out to zero in the set of supply lines.

Current detection device

A motor/generator comprises a stator ( ) having plural coils (C -C ), and plural rotors ( ) disposed coaxially with the above-mentioned stator and driven by a compound current. The phase difference between the currents ( ) driving the rotors ( ) is arranged to be other than 180 degrees. Thereby, the utilization factor of the voltage of the direct current power supply ( ) is improved.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shouichi Maeda