Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuhide Hishikawa

Shinichi Nakamura

Chikara Sato

Masakazu Hiroi

Tomohito Nakagawa

Noriyoshi Ueda

Yoshinori Isobe

Tokuharu Kaneko

Akiyoshi Kimura

Akimaro Yoshida

Toshirou Kasamura

Toshihiko Kusumoto

Masashi Ohashi

Nobukazu Sasaki

Yoshio Mizuno

Ken Tanabe

Minoru Nada

Takashi Ozawa

Yoshikuni Toyama

Naoki Okuda

Katsumi Munenaka

Masamichi Ikeda

Yasunori Maeda

A reading apparatus includes an image reader for reading a sheet original positioned at a reading position and an automatic original conveyor for supplying the sheet original onto the reading position, wherein the sheet original can be read through an image flow reading mode while the sheet original is being conveyed by the automatic original conveyor by fixing the image reader at any position. The apparatus also has a convey path for directing the sheet original to the reading position, and a controller for initiating conveyance of the sheet original waiting at a predetermined position in the convey path in response to a flow reading mode start signal during the image flow reading mode and for initiating the image flow reading mode by outputting an image tip signal when a tip end of the sheet original reaches a flow reading image tip position.

Reading apparatus in which image reading means may be fixed to read and

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus with an image forming device for forming an unfixed image on a recording material and; first and second rotatable members for forming a nip for conveying the recording material supporting the unfixed image. The second rotatable member has its maximum diameters between a longitudinal center and one longitudinal end and between the center and the other longitudinal end thereof.

Conveying rotatable member and conveying apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, image forming station for forming a latent image on the image bearing member, a conveying passage extending toward the image bearing member to guide a developing device, a first moving mechanism for engaging with the developing device in the conveying passage and moving it in a substantially horizontal plane, wherein the image bearing member, the latent image forming station, the conveying passage and the first moving mechanism are provided in a main body of the image forming apparatus, a device for accommodating a plurality of developing devices. The accommodating device is mounted to the main body, the accommodating device includes, a second moving mechanism for moving the developing device opposed to the conveying passage into the conveying passage in a substantially horizontal plane and an accommodating case having partition stages arranged substantially vertically for accommodating plural developing devices and movable together with the developing devices accommodated therein, and a driver for transmitting a driving force selectively to the first driving mechanism, the second driving mechanism and the accommodating case.

Developing device accommodating apparatus and image forming apparatus

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Yokohama, Japan

Yasuhide Hishikawa