Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090169295 | Pushbutton mechanism and image forming apparatus - A pushbutton mechanism includes a case member having an operation surface with a button hole and a pushbutton having an upper surface to be pushed inside the case member in a pushing direction. The upper surface includes a first portion at a front side of the operation surface and a second portion at a rear side of the operation surface. The first portion is formed in a first shape, and the second portion is formed in a second shape different from the first shape along the pushing direction. | 07-02-2009 |
20090297176 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided with a developing unit for attaching developer to a static latent image formed through charging and exposing to form a developer image; an image supporting member for supporting the developer image formed with the developing unit; a removing member disposed to abut against the image supporting member for removing developer; a drive unit for driving the image supporting member; a drive control unit for controlling the drive unit; and a fixing unit for fixing the developer image to a medium. It is configured such that the drive control unit controls the drive unit to temporarily stop before developer is discharged. | 12-03-2009 |
20090322569 | Button key assembly and electronic apparatus that employs the button key assembly - Button keys, resilient supports and a frame are molded in one piece such that the button keys are resiliently movable and are spaced apart by a gap. Each of the button keys includes an engagement portion. A case includes a button hole formed therein. The case is assembled to the frame such that the button keys are received in the button hole. After the case has been assembled to the frame such that the plurality of adjacent button keys are received in the button hole and such that the engagement portion abuts a perimeter portion of the button hole, the second gap being smaller than the first gap. | 12-31-2009 |
20110170923 | EJECTION MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An ejection mechanism includes: a pair of ejection rollers that upwardly eject at an oblique angle a recording medium carried along a predefined carry path; and an ejection tray that includes a piling surface on which the recording medium ejected from the pair of ejection rollers is piled and a side wall surface that faces a trailing edge of the recording medium piled on the piling surface, wherein, the side wall surface is positioned on an ejection direction upstream side with respect to a plumb line that contacts the pair of the ejection rollers on a ejection direction downstream side, and is formed inclining toward a point separated from the plumb line as the side wall surface travels downward from a bottom part of the pair of the ejection rollers. | 07-14-2011 |
20120027425 | MEDIUM DETECTION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A medium detection device includes: a sensor lever configured to rotate corresponding to a travel of a recording medium; a sensor configured to detect the rotation of the sensor lever; a stopper having a guide surface inclined with respect to the movement direction of the sensor lever and configured to stop movement of the sensor lever upon the rotation of the sensor. | 02-02-2012 |
20120161385 | MEDIUM CARRYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An information processing device includes an opening and closing member that is configured to be movable between open and closed positions, and an interference member that is positioned in a middle of an opening and closing trajectory of the opening and closing member. The opening and closing member takes the open position after the opening and closing member moves in a direction away from the interference member and takes the closed position after the opening and closing member moves in a direction toward the interference member. | 06-28-2012 |
20130259555 | IMAGE FORMING MEMBER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming member includes a rotation body that is configured to rotate in contact with a medium and to form an image on the medium, and a separation member that is positioned in contact with or in a vicinity of the surface of the rotation body and that separates the medium attached to the rotation body. The separation member includes a plurality of partial contact parts formed along a rotational axis direction of the rotation body, and a plurality of ridge parts respectively formed from the partial contact parts toward the downstream of a carrying direction of the medium. | 10-03-2013 |
20150113879 | COVER OPENING AND CLOSING MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cover opening and closing mechanism includes a first cover member having a first sheet placing surface and a second cover member having a second sheet placing surface. The first cover member has a first engagement part at a distal end of the first sheet placing surface, the second cover member has a second engagement part at a distal end of the second sheet placing surface so that the first sheet placing surface is flush with the second sheet placing surface. During a process in which the first cover member swings in a close direction, a first contact part of the first cover member, which is other than the first sheet placing surface, contacts to a second contact part of the second cover member, which is other than the second sheet placing surface, before the first engagement part contacts to the second engagement part. | 04-30-2015 |