Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Toshiki Fujino

Tachio Kawai

Teruhiko Sasaki

Akinobu Hirayama

Tetsushi Uneme

Hiroyuki Munetsugu

Takeo Kawanami

Daisuke Abe

Yuichi Fukui

Kensuke Sato

Masanari Morioka

Yu Fukasawa

Goshi Ozaki

Fumito Nonaka

Isao Koishi

Kohei Kurihara

Taiji Watanabe

Masayuki Takeuchi

Tsutomu Sakaguchi

Shinichi Nishida

Naoki Hayashi

Daisuke Suzuki

Tetsuya Numata

Yuuki Nakamura

Koichi Yamashita

Sohta Sugimoto

Noritomo Yamaguchi

Kengo Sakai

Toshiteru Yamasaki

Fumiya Sawashima

Yasuyuki Egami

Yohei Anzai

Kohichi Takahashi

Masaaki Sato

Shinjiro Toba

Yosuke Kashiide

Narihiro Matoba

Yoshitaka Toyoda

A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a casing having a first end portion and a second end portion opposite to the first end portion in a direction of the rotational axis of the photosensitive drum. A coupling is positioned adjacent to the first end portion of the casing, with the coupling being operatively connected to the photosensitive drum so as to transmit a driving force toward the photosensitive drum. The coupling includes a main body configured to rotate about a rotational axis of the main body to thereby transmit the driving force and at least one engaging member, with the engaging member being pivotable relative to the main body between a first position and a second position about a pivot axis that is non parallel to the rotational axis of the main body, and with the engaging member being configured to transmit the driving force toward the photosensitive drum via the main body.

Cartridge, drum unit and image forming apparatus

The infrared image processing device includes a thermal image sensor that receives infrared rays and outputs a signal corresponding to the infrared rays, a thermal image generation unit that generates a plurality of thermal images based on the signal, a smoothing processing unit that performs a smoothing process on each pixel of each of the plurality of thermal images by using a pixel value of a vicinal pixel, thereby calculating a plurality of smoothed images and calculating smoothed pixel values that are each image's pixel values after undergoing the smoothing, a correction coefficient calculation unit that calculates a correction coefficient set including a first correction coefficient and a second correction coefficient from the thermal images and the smoothed images, and a thermal image correction unit that corrects the thermal images by using the correction coefficient set.

Infrared image processing device and infrared image processing method

A toner cartridge includes a casing accommodating toner and provided with a toner discharge opening, a fan, a closing member capable of shifting between a closed position and an open position for opening a passage. The toner cartridge also includes a drive receiving member for receiving a driving force from outside of the toner cartridge and for transmitting the driving force toward the fan and the closing member by rotation thereof. The closing member periodically moves between the closed position and the open position by receiving the driving force.

Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus

An image forming system includes a toner container and an image forming apparatus to which the toner container is mountable. The toner container includes a projection that includes an inner peripheral surface centered on a central axis of the toner container. When the toner container is oriented in a predetermined direction, the projection has a downward guide surface facing downward and an upward guide surface facing upward. When the toner container is moved downward in a direction of the central axis toward a mounting portion of the image forming apparatus, (i) the downward guide surface is configured to guide a guided member of the image forming apparatus so that the guided member is rotated in a rotational direction about the central axis, and (ii) the upward guide surface is configured to guide the guided member so that the guided member is moved up after the guided member is rotated in the rotational direction by the downward guide surface.

Toner container and image forming system

A control memberfor controlling transmission and blocking of a rotational force by a clutch is rotatably supported by a supporting member which supports a developing frame. a locking portion provided on the control memberrotates between a position retracted from a locked portion of the clutch and a position for engaging with the locked portion.

Cartridge having a member for transmitting a driving force for rotating a developing roller

A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a casing rotatably supporting the photosensitive drum. A coupling is operatively connected to the photosensitive drum so as to be capable of transmitting a driving force toward the photosensitive drum. The coupling includes a main body, a movable portion movable relative to the main body of the coupling between a first position and a second position, and a projection configured to move in a circumferential direction of the coupling relative to the main body of the coupling in response to movement of the movable portion from the first position to the second position.

A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling operatively connected to the photosensitive drum so as to be capable of transmitting a driving force toward the photosensitive drum. The coupling includes a first wall, a second wall provided inside the first wall in a radial direction of the coupling, a groove portion defined by the first wall and the second wall, a recessed portion provided in the second wall, and an inclined portion adjacent to the recessed portion.

[TASK] To further develop prior art technique. [SOLUTION] A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling. the coupling includes a main body and a movable member movable relative to the main body. The movable member includes an engaging portion which is capable of entering between a driving force application member and a braking force application member by the movement relative to the main body. The movable member receives a driving force for rotating the photosensitive drum, from the driving force application member and also receives a braking force applying a load against rotation of the photosensitive drum, from the braking force application member.

An image forming system includes a toner container and an image forming apparatus to which the toner container is detachably mountable. The image forming apparatus includes a mounting portion to which the toner container is detachably mountable. The toner container includes an accommodating portion configured to accommodate toner, a discharge portion provided with an opening for discharging the toner in the accommodating portion to outside of the toner container, a rotatable member rotatable, relative to the discharge portion, about a rotational axis in a first rotational direction and a second rotational direction that is opposite to the first rotational direction, and a projection provided below the opening of the discharge portion, the projection having inner peripheral surface such that, when the toner container is oriented in a predetermined direction in which the rotational axis extends in a direction of gravity and at least a part of the discharge portion is below the accommodating portion, the inner peripheral surface faces inward in a radial direction of an imaginary circle centered on the rotational axis.

A toner container includes a toner accommodating body, a nozzle in fluid communication with the toner accommodating body, and a shutter configured to open and close the opening of the nozzle. A projection is positioned at an end portion of the toner container in a direction of the rotational axis, the projection having an inner peripheral surface facing towards the rotational axis. When the toner container is oriented such that the toner accommodating body is above the nozzle, the nozzle is above the projection, and the projection is at a bottommost side of the toner container, (i) the opening of the nozzle is positioned such that toner may be discharged from a lateral side of the toner container that is above the bottommost side, (ii) the projection includes (ii-i) a first surface facing downward, (ii-ii) a second surface facing downward, and (ii-iii) a third surface facing upward, with the first surface, the second surface, and the third surface being positioned outside the inner peripheral surface of the projection and inside the opening of the nozzle in the direction perpendicular to the rotational axis, (iii) the first surface extends such that a distance in the direction of the rotational axis from the first surface to the toner accommodating body decreases along the first surface in the first rotational direction, (iv) the second surface extends such that a distance in the direction of the rotational axis from the second surface to the toner accommodating body decreases along the second surface in the first rotational direction, (v) a distance, measured along a line that is perpendicular to the rotational axis, from the rotational axis to at least a part of the first surface is less than a distance, measured along a line that is perpendicular to the rotational axis, from the rotational axis to a part of the second surface that is closest from the rotational axis, and (vi) at least a part of the third surface is above an uppermost part of the second surface.

Toner container having nozzle and projection at bottom of container and image forming system using container

A toner container includes a toner accommodating body and a nozzle including an opening configured to form a part of a discharge passageway through which toner may be discharged to outside of the toner container. A shutter is configured to open and close the opening of the nozzle, with the shutter being rotatable about a rotational axis between a first position in which the shutter closes the opening of the nozzle and a second position in which an opening of the shutter aligns with the opening of the nozzle to form the discharge passageway. A projection is positioned at an end portion of the toner container, with the projection including a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface. When the toner container is oriented such that the toner accommodating body is above the nozzle, the nozzle is above the projection, and the projection is at a bottommost side of the toner container, (i) the opening of the nozzle is positioned such that toner may be discharged from a lateral side of the toner container that is above the bottommost side, (ii) the first surface faces downward, (iii) the second surface faces downward, and (iv) the third surface faces upward.

Cartridge with a mechanism for transmitting a force to a developing roller of the cartridge

An image capturing device includes an image sensor and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry calculates a pixel value fluctuation amount as a fluctuation amount of each of the pixel values; calculates a line fluctuation amount as an average value of N pixel value fluctuation amounts of N pixels; calculates a variance value of the N pixel value fluctuation amounts from the N pixel value fluctuation amounts and the line fluctuation amount; calculates a movement adaptive weight based on the variance value; calculates a line fluctuation noise correction amount, corresponding to each of the pixel values outputted from the image sensor, from the line fluctuation amount and the movement adaptive weight; and corrects each of the pixel values outputted from the image sensor by using the line fluctuation noise correction amount and thereby generates an image signal after the correction.

Image capturing device and line variation noise reduction device

A cartridge includes a coupling member, a transmitted member, and a rotary member. The transmitted member includes an accommodating portion configured to accommodate the coupling member, and a protruded portion integrally formed with an inner wall of the accommodating portion and protruding from the inner wall toward an inside of the accommodating portion. The coupling member includes a free end portion having a rotational force receiving portion that receives a rotational force, a connected portion connected to the transmitted member in such a manner that at least a part of the connected portion can be accommodated in the accommodating portion, and a recessed portion provided at the connected portion so that the protruded portion can enter. An inclination angle of a rotation axis of the coupling member relative to a rotation axis of the transmitted member is variable.

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