Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yuzo Kawano

Naoki Yamaguchi

Yoshiaki Ijima

Yoshihiro Mizoguchi

Masaya Shimada

Junichi Tanizaki

Masakazu Aoki

Kazunori Kanekura

Norihide Satoh

Kazuhiko Tajima

Atsushi Sogami

Hiroshi Terada

Yoshitaka Kitaoka

Tetsuro Nakamura

Kenichi Masumoto

Noriyuki Tajima

Akira Gyoutoku

Yuuji Toyomura

Takafumi Hamano

Yuji Toyomura

Kazuhiro Seguchi

Tadashi Shimotoso

Hirofumi Ihara

Yuji Nagai

Toshimi Hattori

Hiroshi Fujiwara

Ryoichi Nagasue

Hirokazu Tasaka

Kohei Suyama

Takeshi Houman

Tetsuo Korenaga

Kazuhiko Tashima

Katsumi Ogawa

Tatsuya Tokoshima

The present invention holds the source document feeding direction downstream edge of a printed sheet ejected above a source document feed tray by means of a top ejection platform functioning as a printed sheet holding section in an area apart from source document feed rollers functioning as a source document feeding section. As a result, a printed sheet ejected onto top ejection platform is not fed automatically by source document feed rollers. Therefore, a printed sheet that has undergone image formation can be ejected without obstruction above source document feed tray of an automatic document feeder, checking and removal of a printed sheet are facilitated, and convenience is improved.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an exposer including an organic electroluminescence element including at least an anode for injecting a hole, a luminescent layer having a luminescent region and a cathode for injecting an electron on a board. A photosensitive member is formed with an electrostatic latent image by exposing light of the exposer, a developer forms a toner image on the photosensitive member by supplying a toner to the electrostatic latent image, and a cooler cools the organic electroluminescence element such that the temperature of the organic electroluminescence element can be controlled.

Image forming apparatus having a cooler for an organic electroluminescence element

A color image forming apparatus comprises photoconductor drums on which toner images of each color are developed and formed; an endless intermediate transfer belt arranged in a contactable state with the photoconductor drums to run; first bias transfer rollers which perform first bias transfer in which the toner images of each color are transferred from the photoconductor drums onto the intermediate transfer belt; a second bias transfer roller which performs second transfer in which the toner images on the intermediate transfer belt are transferred onto paper; and a separation unit which, when a maximum print length of an image is below a length from a transfer point A to a transfer point B, separates the photoconductor drums and the intermediate transfer belt from each other after all first bias transfer of the toner images to be transferred on the last paper in a first print job has been completed, before second bias transfer onto the last paper is started and after second bias transfer onto paper immediately before the last paper has been completed.

Image transfer section of color image forming apparatus

A color image formation apparatus includes a plurality of stages of photosensitive drums provided for respective developing agents, the photosensitive drums arranged in a predetermined direction; and developer units which are provided for respective photosensitive drums and which develop electrostatic latent images formed on the photosensitive drums, wherein an overlap exists in the predetermined direction between a portion of each photosensitive drum and a portion of the developer unit provided so as to correspond to an adjacent photosensitive drum.

Image formation apparatus including an overlap between portions of a photosensitive drum and an adjacent developer unit

An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a driving unit for transmitting a driving force to the image carrier via a driving spline, and a plurality of members to be driven for driving the driving force transmitted from the driving unit via the image carrier. A shaft is disposed coaxially with a rotation shaft of the image carrier in one end of the image carrier. An involute spline-shaped follower spline to which the driving force is transmitted from the driving unit via the driving spline is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the flange, and a driving force transmitter for transmitting the driving force to at least one of the member to be driven is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the flange.

A tandem type color image forming apparatus has a plurality of image forming units. These units includes at least a plurality of spaced photosensitive drums, and a plurality of developing rollers for developing with toners electrostatic latent images formed on these photosensitive drums. The image forming units except the image forming unit for black color that may be highly frequently used are accommodated in the same first housing. The unit for black color is accommodated in another second housing. The first and second housings are made to be attachable to and detachable from the chassis of the apparatus main body independently of each other. Only an image forming unit with high frequency of inspection or maintenance can separately be detached, so that the work load for inspection or maintenance is reduced, and handling of the apparatus is easy.

Color image forming apparatus with separate housings for image forming units

An image formation apparatus comprises photosensitive drums for respectively forming toner images corresponding to specified colors of an original image, an intermediate transfer belt onto which the toner images are transferred from the photosensitive drums in superimposed relation to form a synthetic toner image, and transfer rollers each for pressing the intermediate transfer belt against the associated photosensitive drum. The photosensitive drum disposed more upstream in a direction of conveyance of the intermediate transfer belt has a lower speed. The intermediate transfer belt may be designed to move at a speed higher than those of the photosensitive drums. With this construction, a sag or dip of the intermediate transfer belt between any two adjacent photosensitive drums is eliminated, thereby preventing a color drift of the synthetic toner image.

Color image formation apparatus using plural photosensitive drums

An image developing apparatus has a photosensitive body, an image-developing roller, a toner feeding roller, a housing cassette, whereon the image-developing roller and the feeding roller are mounted, for storing the toner, a plate-like blade mounted on the housing cassette, a sheet member for preventing the toner from leaking, and toner sealing devices made of a resilient material for preventing the toner from leaking. The sheet member is displaced between a development area of the developing roller and a position of the pressed contact between the developing roller and the feeding roller. The sheet member maintains a uniformly contact along a longitudinal direction of the developing roller. The toner sealing devices are either mounted integrally to, or formed integrally with the blade as one unit, and provided at both ends of the blade. A space is provided between the toner sealing devices and the housing cassette. The structure of this invention realizes prevention of the toner from leaking in the image developing apparatus, since it effectively fills a space between the blade and the developing roller. Furthermore, the structure also improves productivity and reduces working processes, since it makes adhesion of the toner sealing devices unnecessary in manufacturing the image-developing apparatus.

Image developing apparatus having developer seal

A printer for forming a toner image to be transferred onto a work piece, includes a latent image roller with an outer peripheral image surface adapted to be electrified in such a manner that an electrostatic latent image is formed thereon, an image developing roller with an outer peripheral toner surface adapted to hold thereon toner to be supplied onto the outer peripheral image surface so that the electrostatic latent image is developed by the toner to form the toner image, an electrifier for electrifying the outer peripheral image surface, and a discharger for partially electrically discharging the electrified outer peripheral image surface to form the electrostatic latent image. A motor drives both the latent image roller and the image developing roller.

Printer

Image forming device with misregistration correction achieved by

A motor pulley for driving a photosensitive drum and a motor gear for driving a developing roller are fixed to a rotating shaft of a motor. The developing roller is provided with a developing roller driving gear which engages with the motor gear, and the photosensitive roller is provided with a photoreceptor driving pulley, to which a driving force from the motor pulley is transmitted.

Image forming apparatus having drive mechanism for photosensitive drum

A printing apparatus includes, a first body including a reader for reading an information on a first workpiece, and a printer for printing an image on a second workpiece, and a second body swingable relative to the first body on a swing axis over the reader to cover and uncover the reader, wherein the printing apparatus further includes a workpiece transfer path for moving therein the second workpiece with the printed image from the printer to the second body.

Printing apparatus having reader, printer, cover, and transfer path from

A drive transmission apparatus includes a first gear for transmitting a driving force to a first rotatable body, a second gear for transmitting the driving force to a second rotatable body and a third gear to which the driving force is transmitted from a driving source, the first, second and third gears being coaxially arranged. A first connecting member passes through the second gear and connects the first gear and the third gear. A cylindrical second connecting member is supported by the first connecting member located inside the second connecting member and connects the second gear and the third gear. The arrangement is such that the fluctuation in rotating speed of the second gear may be transmitted to the first gear through the second connecting member, the third gear and the first connecting member.

Drive transmission apparatus

An image forming apparatus is provided which includes a recording sheet ejection outlet, an ejected recording sheet tray, and a manual recording sheet feed inlet. The recording sheet ejection outlet is formed in an end portion of an upper surface of a casing. The ejected recording sheet tray is provided adjacent the recording sheet ejection outlet. The manual recording sheet feed inlet is formed in the other end portion of the upper surface of the casing opposite the recording sheet ejection outlet across the ejected recording sheet tray so as to utilize the ejected recording sheet tray as a recording sheet feed tray for insertion of a recording sheet into the manual recording sheet feed inlet.

Image forming apparatus with improved manual paper feed inlet

An electrophotographic printing apparatus is provided. This printing apparatus includes a photosensitive medium designed to form thereon an electrostatic latent image, a developing roller designed to tone the electrostatic latent image with a toner to form a toner image on the photosensitive medium, a driving mechanism for driving the developing roller for rotation, a transport mechanism for moving the developing roller into engagement and disengagement with and from the photosensitive medium for the formation of the toner image thereon, and a control unit adapted to control the driving mechanism to rotate the developing roller immediately before the developing roller is brought by the transport mechanism into engagement with the photosensitive medium, and controls the driving mechanism to stop the developing roller from rotating immediately after the developing roller is moved by the transport mechanism away from the photosensitive medium.

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Yuzo Kawano