Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Ricoh Corporation

Yoshio Kawajiri

Peter E Hart

Michael J Gormish

Gregory J Wolff

David Geoffrey Stork

Masahiro Nakamura

Mamoru Takezawa

Koh Matsuhisa

The present invention is related to an information management system and device that makes it possible to connect the conventional facsimiles, to a network system such as a local area network (LAN).

Information management system capable of connecting facsimile machines which are incompatible with network systems to network systems

A facsimile transmission system with a first facsimile machine that includes at least a scanner for scanning documents inserted into a document feeder and transmission capabilities for sending a fax and with a second facsimile machine that includes at least reception capabilities for receiving the fax and a printer for printing a hard copy of the received fax, if necessary. The facsimile system may include functionality for securing the facsimile transmission. The facsimile system may include functionality to enable the facsimile transmission to be certified.

Method and apparatus for sending secure facsimile transmissions and

A head carriage for use in a contact-type magnetic recording/reproducing system, in particular a floppy disc system, comprises a carriage main body, a magnetic head fixedly mounted on the carriage main body and a resiliently supported arm for carrying thereon either another magnetic head for double-sided operation or a pressure pad for single-sided operation. In one aspect of the present invention, linear coefficients of expansions of various parts of the head carriage are determined so as to maintain a proper alignment between the two magnetic heads which are disposed in opposed relationship. In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a specifically shaped pressure contact member for supporting a pressure pad to keep a desired contact condition between the magnetic head and a recording medium.

Head carriage for use in a magnetic recording machine

In a sheet feeding device for a printing apparatus for feeding one sheet after another to a printing station, a stopper hook is located slightly posterior to point of contact between a platen and a roller or between two rollers brought into and out of pressing contact with each other, and a sheet fed to the printing station is stopped by the stopper hook and has its position corrected, if it has a skew, while the platen and the roller or the two rollers are out of contact with each other. Thus a sheet free from skew is pressed by the roller against the platen or the roller to enable automatic skewless sheet feeding to be effected.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshio Kawajiri