Hitachi, Ltd.

Tagasangyo, Ltd.

Yoshitaro Ishii

Fumio Jyoraku

Hisanori Toyoshima

Kazuo Tahara

Haruo Koharagi

Kunio Miyashita

Masao Sunagawa

Syuji Watanabe

Tsunehiro Endo

Wakichiro Hishi

Koujirou Yamashita

Hisao Suka

Kohichi Saito

Akira Iwao

Kazuhiro Kubota

Masahiko Saito

Yasuyuki Hiruta

Susumu Satoh

Mitsuhisa Kawamata

Akira Sasaki

Takeshi Abe

Toshiyuki Ajima

Tunehiro Endo

Naruhiko Suzuki

Shizuo Tsuruta

Atusi Hosokawa

Motoo Futami

Tomofumi Yoshida

Kazuhiro Wakamatsu

Nobuo Suzuki

Tadashi Okano

Chikara Hiraoka

Masashi Yamamoto

Yukiji Iwase

Katsumi Kumada

Seiji Okunomiya

Akira Iida

Keiji Kamio

Kouichi Saito

Shoichi Ito

Satoshi Narita

Yoshio Ohuchi

Shigetaka Kimura

Koichi Sato

Shigenori Sato

Tetsunori Kaneko

Kohichi Hasegawa

Susumu Satoo

Jiro Arai

Fumio Jyouraku

Tetsuro Akatsu

Yoshikatsu Shinonaga

An electrophotographic image forming system having a form cassette for storing forms, a transfer unit for forming an image, a feeder for feeding the forms to the transfer unit and a fusing device for fusing transferred image of the form. The electrophotographic image forming system provides in a path for feeding the form with unfused colored particles (toner) deposited thereon, a form guide so as to contact the non-printing area of the surface of the form with unfused colored particles (toner) deposited thereon.

Electrophotographic image forming system

An image forming apparatus is capable of preventing with certainty the loading of a developing device an incorrect loading portion from being operated. The image forming apparatus includes a latent image holding body forming an electrostatic latent image, a developing device developing the electrostatic latent image to form a visible toner image, the developing device being detachably loaded in the image forming apparatus, a transfer device transferring the developed image onto a printing medium and a fixing device for fixing the transferred image. The image forming device can prevent an incorrect developing device loading in the image forming apparatus from being placed in a development enabled condition and can detect an active state of prevention.

Image forming apparatus

When the upper case of the developing device is pushed from above, the upper case may be deformed producing a negatively activated pressure corresponding to the deformed volume of the case, thereby dispersing toner along with the air. When the developing device is mounted to or dismounted from the color image forming apparatus, the dispersed toner may fall out of the developing device. To prevent the toner from falling out of the developing device, the toner carrier and the limiting member for limiting the toner layer thickness are held in the developer case and a falling toner receiver is formed which is recessed in the developer case in the longitudinal and widthwise directions of the toner carrier and the limiting member for limiting the toner layer thickness. The falling toner is collected in the receiver, preventing the device from being contaminated with the falling toner and facilitating the cleaning of the device.

Developing device, developing method, and an image forming apparatus

A controlling apparatus controls a suction performance of a blower motor which is installed into a cleaner main body. The controlling apparatus increases the suction performance when a suction nozzle is operated and decreases the suction performance when the suction nozzle is stopped. Corresponding to a floor use suction nozzle and a crevice use suction nozzle, at a predetermined air flow amount range, the most suitable operation control being suited to a discriminated suction nozzle can carried out automatically. Plural kinds of the suction nozzles at an actual use scope are set beforehand. When the suction nozzle is exchanged the flow amount range is changed over and selected with a respective suction nozzle. Plural kinds of the suction nozzles are selected and changed over automatically according to the dimension of a change amount of an operation condition. A brushless direct motor is used as the blower motor and has a domain being operated at a chopper control duty of factor 100%.

Vacuum cleaner

Method and apparatus for operating a vacuum cleaner in which by detecting a rotational speed of a variable speed fan motor adapted to give a suction force to the cleaner and its change range, the choking state of the filter and the state of the cleaned surface are discriminated, and a speed command of the fan motor is corrected on the basis of the result of the discrimination, and the comfortable cleaning can be performed by the optimum suction force.

Method and apparatus for operating vacuum cleaner

In a vacuum cleaner, both static pressure H.sub.data and a variation width .DELTA.H in the static pressure appearing when a suction port is operated are detected from a pressure sensor provided at a rear side of a filter within a main body of the vacuum cleaner; a current variation width .DELTA.pbi appearing when the suction port is operated is detected from a current of a nozzel motor for driving a rotary brush stored in a power brush suction port; an air quantity at the suction port is calculated from the current, rotational speed of a fan motor and static pressure; command values are newly obtained by performing a fuzzy calculation with the variation width .DELTA.pbi, static-pressure command value Hcmd; the variation width .DELTA.H and the static-pressure command value Qcmd; the variation width .DELTA.pbi and static-pressure command value Hcmd; and also the variation width .DELTA.H and static-pressure command value Qcmd as the input thereto; the rotational speeds of the fan motor and nozzel motor are controlled from the result of the command values; and further optimum air suction force is automatically obtained, depending upon the suction port under use and cleaning floor plane.

Vacuum cleaner with fuzzy logic control

An electric vacuum cleaner having a body, suction generating means and a dust collection space in said body, and a rotatable hose inlet for receiving a suction hose and connecting the hose to the dust collection space. The suction hose has at one end a coupling engageable with said hose inlet. An electrical power supply cord socket is arranged to receive a plug of a power supply cord for a powered accessory of the vacuum cleaner. To avoid twisting of the cord around the hose, the cord socket is located on the hose coupling.

Motor control apparatus for an electric vacuum cleaner

An output of a electric driven blower in a cleaner main body is controlled in response to a detection value of a pressure sensor which detects an operation condition in the cleaner main body. A change-over level setting value is provided as a control value for the sensor so as to form a judgment point for changing over a control condition of the blower. A return level setting value is provided as a control value for the sensor so as to form a judgment point for returning to a previous control condition of the blower from a changed-over condition of the blower. When the detection value of the sensor is more than the change-over level setting value, the return level setting value is set higher than the change-over setting value, thereby the output of the blower is increased, or the return level setting value is set a lower than the change-over level setting value, thereby the output of the blower is decreased.

Vacuum cleaner and method for operating the same

An electric blower has an electric motor, a centrifugal impeller rotating by the driving of the electric motor, an end bracket for separating the electric motor from the centrifugal impeller, and a diffuser. The diffuser includes a plurality of diffuser vanes arranged near the outer periphery of the centrifugal impeller, and a flat plate portion which extends between the centrifugal impeller and the end bracket for supporting the diffuser vanes. The flat plate portion has a plurality of guide vanes formed on an opposite surface thereof from the diffuser vanes. A passage is defined by the end bracket, the flat plate portion and the guide vanes so as to return the air flow, discharged from the centrifugal impeller through the diffuser vanes, inwardly of the blower. The end bracket is formed in a substantially convex shape so as to extend away from the flat plate portion of the diffuser, with the end bracket extending from a central portion toward its periphery, thereby defining an opening area of the discharge air flow return passage. A sound absorbing material is arranged in the discharge air flow return passage to absorb sounds from the discharging air flow.

Electric blower having improved return passage for discharged air flow

A hose fixture device has a cylindrical wall with projections thereon, which projections engage a corresponding mounting projection of a hose. Normally that mounting projection is a helix, so that there is a screw engagement. The projections are arranged circumferentially around the cylindrical wall with gaps therebetween. There are also gripper members, again spaced circumferentially with gaps therebetween, which grip an end of the hose. The gaps make is easy to see such engagement. The gripper members are aligned with the gaps between those projections. This provides a secure fixing of the hose to the hose fixture device. Furthermore, the device may be moulded easily. Such a hose fixture device may be used to attache a hose joint component (e.g. a suction tool) to a hose of an electric vacuum cleaner.

Hose fixture device

A vacuum cleaner comprising a fan motor disposed in a main body case thereof and having a motor with a permanent magnet stator or rotor, and a fan arranged to be rotated by the motor. A dust-collecting chamber collects dust suctioned into the main body case due to the rotation of the fan motor, and a dust-collecting filter causes the dust suctioned into the main body case to be caught in the dust-collecting chamber. A magnetic material adhesion preventing device is provided in a passage through which air flows due to rotation of the fan motor, with the magnetic material adhesion preventing device acting to prevent adhesion of fine dust composed of magnetic materials included in the air flow to a portion in the vicinity of the permanent magnet. As a result, adhesion of fine dust between the rotor and stator can be prevented thereby increasing the service life and the reliability of the vacuum cleaner.

Disclosed is an upright-type electric vacuum cleaner which comprises a suction port body provided with a rotary brush and a main body case supported tiltably on the suction port body. Improvements are made in details such as the arrangement for supporting the main body case in the suction port body, the arrangements of mounting a handle onto the main body case, the configuration of a main body duct, the arrangement of a rotary brush, the arrangement of a cover of the main body case, and the arrangement of a T-shaped joint for connecting the main body duct and a dust filter means, thereby increasing the strength and rigidity of each of these parts and improving the performance of the vacuum cleaner.

Upright-type electric vacuum cleaner

Method and apparatus for operating a vacuum cleaner in which by detecting a rotational speed of a variable speed fan motor adapted to give a suction force to the cleaner and its change range, the choking state of the filter and the state of the cleaner surface are discriminated, and a speed command of the fan motor is corrected on the basis of the result of the discrimination, and the comfortable cleaning can be performed by the optimum suction force.

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Hitachi, Japan

Yoshitaro Ishii