Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.

Ricoh Elemex Corporation

Yuichi Fujii

Hideo Yamazaki

Kazunori Kubota

Mitsuru Ichikawa

Yukitaka Nakazato

Masatoshi Hosoi

Nobuyoshi Seki

Yuji Ueno

Mituru Ichikawa

Kenji Yamada

Kazuo Yoshida

Yasuo Suzuki

Yoshihide Sugiyama

Yoshiaki Ushirogata

Nobuyuki Morii

Tetsuji Watanabe

Masashi Shimada

Yasuo Kosuga

Kiyokazu Seo

Yasunobu Kikuchi

Katsunori Mori

Tetsuya Nakayama

Tetsuji Watanbe

Katsumi Yoshii

Rikizo Yoshikawa

A clamping device for clamping sheets stacked on a bin of a sorter is composed of a moving unit, on which clamp levers are mounted, and an unshakable unit, on which an opening and closing mechanism for the clamp levers and a moving mechanism for moving the moving unit in the state of keeping the clamping of the sheets, are mounted. Thereby, a solenoid for opening or closing the clamp levers mounted on the moving unit and a wire harness connecting electrical device mounted on the moving device with a connector mounted on the unshakable unit are omitted.

Stacked sheet clamping device for a stapler

A finisher for finishing sheets for use in a copier, printer or similar image forming apparatus having a sorter for sorting sheets on a plurality of bins, and further having a stapler or a punching device. A bin moving member is provided for moving the plurality of bins to predetermined positions in which the bin moving member moves the bins to a positioning relationship such that an interval A between a first bin for accepting the discharged sheets from a discharging member and a third bin located at a position immediately over the first bin, an interval B between the first bin and a second bin located at a position immediately under the first bin, and an interval D between the third bin located at a position immediately over the first bin and a fifth bin located at a position immediately over the third bin are broader than an interval E between other adjacent regular bins.

Finisher for image forming apparatus

A finisher for binding paper sheets sequentially driven out of an image forming apparatus. A finisher moves along an edge of a stack of sheets and curves around a corner. A pair of individualy operated gripper fingers grabs the stack of sheets and moves the stack into position for finishing.

Movable finisher device with multiple stack gripping fingers

A finisher capable of binding a stack of sheets at a plurality of desired positions by a single stapler. When a plurality of stacks of sheets should be each stapled at two positions, the stapler is controlled such that the last stapling position of the preceding stack is the position where the following stack is stapled first.

Finisher for an image forming apparatus

A suspension system includes an engine and transmission assembly mounted transversely in a vehicle and having a main axis of moment of inertia extending in a left and right direction of the vehicle, a single first mount located at a first end of the engine and transmission assembly and at least one additional mount located in the vicinity of an opposite second end of the assembly. The center of gravity of the assembly is located on a main axis of moment of inertia of the assembly extending between the first and second ends and is closer to the first end than to the second end. The mount is a bushing-type mount and is oriented so that the central axis of the mount extends parallel to the main axis of moment of inertia of the assembly so that the mount supports the assembly in a front and rear direction of the vehicle to suppress rocking of the assembly during acceleration and deceleration. The mount has a soft spring characteristic in an up and down direction so that high frequency engine vibrations are prevented from being transmitted to the vehicle body.

Suspension system for an engine and transmission assembly mounted

A finisher for use with a copier, printer or similar image forming apparatus for sorting or otherwise finishing recording sheets sequentially driven out of the apparatus. A positioning member in the form of a fur brush urges paper sheets sequentially delivered from the apparatus to a tray of the finisher to a predetermined position. At this instant, the paper positioning member does not interfere with a shifting motion of the tray.

A finisher for use with a copier, printer or similar image forming apparatus for stapling or otherwise finishing paper sheets sequentially driven out of the apparatus. A paper sheet is introduced in a stapling section of a stapling device by being switched back, while being accurately guided by a guide member having a sufficient length. The stapling device is movable, independently of jogger fences which position paper sheets, to a particular position which is optimal for the size of stacked paper sheets and the position in which they are used. When a staple error detector detects a stapling error, a discharge path in use is switched over to another path. When a stapled paper stack is discharged, it is deformed in a wave-like configuration in a direction perpendicular to an intended direction of transport to be provided with a certain degree of rigidity. This allows the stapled paper stack to be driven out stably, epecially without being loosened at the discharge side. A jam detector detects a failure in the discharge of paper sheets in a discharging device with accuracy. A stapled paper stack is directly driven out of the stapling device without the intermediary of an exclusive path.

A finisher for use with a copier, printer or similar image forming apparatus for stapling or otherwise finishing paper sheets sequentially driven out of the apparatus. The paper sheets entering the finisher one after another are collected on a tray. A paper sorting mechanism moves the tray in a reciprocating motion in a horizontal plane in a direction perpendicular to an intended direction of paper discharge onto the tray. The paper sorting mechanism has a paper pressing member movable in a reciprocating motion in interlocked relation to the tray, a paper positioning member for urging the paper sheet discharged onto the tray to a predetermined position, a drive source for causing the tray into a reciprocating motion, and a drive source for driving the tray in the vertical direction such that the tray receives paper sheets at an optimal level. A height sensor is associated with the paper pressing member for determining that the paper sheets sequentially stacked on the tray has reached a predetermined height.

Support devices for automobile engine comprising attaching two buffers each comprising connecting the exterior surface of a metal shaft with the interior surface of a metal hollow cylinder arranged so as to surround the shaft in spaced relation by means of an elastic rubber member to provide higher and lower directions of the rigidities between the shaft and the metal cylinder at a plane perpendicular to the coextensive axes of the shaft and the metal cylinder in horizontal relation with respect to the coextensive direction of the shaft and the metal cylinder and connecting one end of either the shaft or the metal cylinder with the car body and another end thereof with the engine so that the coextensive line of the direction having higher rigidity intersects with a vertical plane through the center of gravity of the engine at a position below the intersection of the coextensive line directed to the direction having lower rigidity with the above-mentioned vertical plane to support symmetrically the engine on the car body in a laterally spaced relation, thereby eliminating the heavy noises generated by the operation of the automobile engine and preventing the separation of the engine from the car body.

Support devices for automobile engine

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Okazaki, Japan

Yuichi Fujii