Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshio Tohyama

Junichi Yamamoto

Hiroshi Mizuno

Akihito Ikegawa

Tatsuya Eguchi

Hirofumi Hasegawa

Kazuyoshi Hara

Hitoshi Sekino

Yasuhiro Matsuura

Iwao Fujii

Yasukuni Omata

Katsuyuki Taima

Satoshi Yoshida

Akihiko Onuma

Masahiro Shiigi

Norio Tamada

Takayuki Ogawa

An image forming apparatus having a sheet storing unit for storing sheets therein along a bottom of a body of the apparatus, a sheet feeding mechanism for feeding the sheets stored in the sheet storing unit one by one toward a rear side of the body, a sheet path for leading each sheet fed by the sheet feeding mechanism upward, an image forming unit for forming an image on the sheet traveling in the sheet path, and a sheet ejecting unit for ejecting the image-formed sheet toward a front side of the body onto a sheet receiving portion disposed on an upper side of the body. The image forming unit is made as a cartridge containing a photosensitive member, a developing device, a transferring device and a cleaner. The cartridge is mounted in a holder which is movable between a cartridge exchange position and a set position.

Image forming apparatus

A thermal transfer recording apparatus permitting detachable disposition therein of an inked film cassette provided with a takeup reel holding part and a supply reel holding part. In the inked film cassette, the takeup reel holding part disposed at one end thereof and the supply reel holding part disposed at the other end thereof protrude in mutually opposite directions from the cassette casing.

Thermal transfer recording apparatus and inked film cassette therefor

A multi-color thermal transfer printing apparatus having a platen roller rotatable in opposite directions with a recording medium driven to travel on the platen roller and a continuous length of carrier medium driven to travel in conjunction with the recording medium on the platen roller so that the carrier medium may be in contact with the recording medium, the carrier medium having a series of areas carrying differently colored inks. A thermal print head is movable between an inoperative position spaced apart from the platen roller and an operative position having the carrier medium pressed against the recording medium on the platen roller and operative to form an image on the recording medium by thermal transfer of an ink from one of the colored areas of the carrier medium to the recording medium. A guide member is movable between a first position close to the platen roller and a second position spaced from the platen roller, the guide member in the first position forming a passageway through which the recording medium is to be guided to travel along a predetermined path with respect to the platen roller. The guide member and the print head are together so that the guide member is moved to the first position in response to movement of the print head to the inoperative position and is moved to the second position in response to movement of the print head to the operative position.

Thermal transfer printing apparatus

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshio Tohyama