| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 399393000 | Copy medium input tray | 19 |
| 20090047049 | RECORDING MEDIA SEPARATING DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording media separating device that separates recording media fed by a feeding roller and a hopper into a top recording medium and next-to-top recording media is provided. The recording media have been held in a feeding tray before being fed. The recording media separating device includes a movable contact separator having a movable contact separation surface that contacts leading ends of the recording media. When the number of the recording media held in the feeding tray becomes less than a predetermined number, the movable contact separation surface of the movable contact separator is moved to a separation position in a transportation path for the recording media. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090238622 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention improves print performance in image forming apparatuses capable of roller feeding and air feeding. To accomplish this, an image forming apparatus having an air feeding unit that carries out air feeding and a roller feeding unit that carries out roller feeding is provided with a determination unit configured to determine according to an attribute of a print job whether to carry out air feeding or whether to carry out roller feeding, and a control unit configured to control the image forming apparatus according to a result of the determination of the determination unit. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100124449 | SHEET TRAY UNIT AND IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE COMPRISING SHEET TRAY UNIT - A sheet tray unit includes a particular feed tray configured to hold one or more sheets therein, and a discharge tray disposed on the particular feed tray and configured to receive a discharged sheet. The discharge tray includes a first discharge tray portion, a second discharge tray portion, and a third discharge tray portion. The first discharge tray portion is configured to support the second discharge tray portion such that the second discharge tray portion selectively slides in a first direction and in a second direction, which is opposite and substantially parallel to the first direction. The second discharge tray portion is configured to support the third discharge tray portion such that the third discharge tray portion selectively slides in the first direction and in the second direction. The first discharge tray portion includes a stopper configured to limit the third discharge tray portion from sliding in the first direction beyond a predetermined position. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100150630 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus comprising: a paper feeding cassette which selectively stores at least two kinds of paper sheets having different size with respect to a paper feeding direction, and includes a posterior end cursor which restricts a posterior end position of the stored paper sheets with respect to the paper feeding direction, wherein the height of the posterior end cursor is changeable. According to this construction, a smaller space is provided to stack large-sized paper sheets which are not frequently used while a larger space is provided to stack small-sized paper sheets which are frequently used can be reserved. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100172678 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is an image forming apparatus that can include a main body, a paper cassette detachably mounted on the main body and a manual paper feed tray provided separately from the paper cassette. Both the cassette and the manual tray can receive a printing medium to be picked up by a pick up roller for forming an image. The tray can be received into and pulled out from so as to allow the placement of the printing medium on the tray and the positioning of the printing medium for pick up by the pick up roller. One or more guides can further be provided to align the printing medium placed on the tray into suitable pick up orientation. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20110170922 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING FIRST AND SECOND GROUND CONDUCTING ROUTES - An image forming apparatus including an image forming apparatus body, a cassette attaching section, a media cassette, a release portion, a first ground conducting route and a second ground conducting route is provided. The cassette attaching section includes a media supplying roller. The media cassette is removably installed in the cassette attaching section. The media cassette includes a loading plate, a pushing up member and a plate holding portion. The release portion engages the plate holding portion. The first ground conducting route conducts static electricity charged on the media and includes a conducting portion. The second ground conducting route conducts static electricity charged on the media when the media is conveyed by the media supplying roller. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110262198 | SHEET HOLDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (PINION HOLDER IN SHEET FEEDER CASSETTE) - According to one embodiment, a sheet holding device including a guiding member that defines a sheet position in a sheet width direction which is perpendicular to a sheet movement direction, a rack gear that assists a movement in the sheet width direction of the guiding member, a pinion gear that assists the movement in the sheet width direction of the guiding member in cooperation with the rack gear, and a holder that supports the rack gear and the pinion gear movable in the sheet width direction in a state of maintaining a positional relation between the rack gear and the pinion gear, and provides an effect on a load applied to the guiding member from a direction which is perpendicular to each of the sheet movement direction and the sheet width direction. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110299906 | PRINTED MATERIAL HOLDING DEVICE AND PRINTER WITH THE PRINTED MATERIAL HOLDING DEVICE - A printed material holding device includes a printed material tray for receiving printed material and a transmission mechanism. A first claw is disposed on the printed material tray. The transmission mechanism includes a mounting plate attached to a main body of a printer. A clipping hole is defined in the mounting plate. The first claw is configured to move between a first configuration, where the first claw is engaged in the clipping hole, so that printed material tray is secured to the mounting plate, and a second configuration, where the first claw is disengaged from the clipping hole, so that the printed material tray is withdrawn from the mounting plate. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120183339 | ADJUSTABLE PAPER CASSETTE - An adjustable paper cassette is provided that may be expanded and contracted by sliding movable frames relative to a base frame and then coupling fixing protrusions to desired fixing holes. Therefore, paper sheets having various sizes may be loaded in the paper cassette, and the size of an image forming apparatus with the paper cassette and the packing size of the image forming apparatus may be reduced without limitation on the size of the paper cassette. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20130136517 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a roller, a driving shaft, a support shaft, a bearing portion, a contact member and a pivot shaft. The driving shaft is removably connected to one end of the roller and the support shaft is disposed at the other end of the roller in an axial direction. The pivot shaft is configured to pivotably support the contact member, and includes a rotating shaft disposed coaxially with an axis line of the roller and an eccentric portion extending toward the roller at a position on the other end side of the roller and eccentric from an axis line of the rotating shaft. The contact member is disposed in the eccentric portion. Distance from the axis line of the rotating shaft to the eccentric portion in a radial direction is larger than dimension of the support shaft in a radial direction. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20140016980 | Sheet Conveyer and Image Forming Apparatus - A sheet conveyer including a body, a conveyer to convey the sheet into a conveyer path formed in the body, a conveyer-supporting frame to support the conveyer, a first placement unit including a lifting plate movable between a separated position and an approximate position, and a lateral guide arranged on the lifting plate to be movable integrally with the lifting plate and slidably along a widthwise direction and configured to restrict a widthwise position of the sheet placed on the lifting plate and, is provided. The conveyer contacts the sheet placed on the first placement unit, when the lifting plate is in the approximate position, and conveys the contacting sheet into the conveyer path. The conveyer-supporting frame is formed to have an interference-avoidable dented section, in which the side guide on the lifting plate placed in the approximate position enters partly to avoid interference with the conveyer-supporting frame. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140086658 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a first frame having a plate-like shape and made of metal, the first frame being configured to support the image forming unit, a second frame arranged on an opposite side, with respect to the first frame, of the first frame with sandwiching the image forming unit therebetween, the second frame having a plate-like shape and made of resin, the second frame being configured to support the image forming unit in association with the first frame, a third frame bridging between the first frame and the second frame, a sheet supplying unit being secured to the third frame, and a contacting part formed to each of the first frame and the second frame, contact parts formed to the third frame being configured to contact the first and second frames, respectively. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140086659 | Configuration for an Image Forming Apparatus Having an Upright Recording Medium Storage Unit - An image forming apparatus includes a recording sheet storage unit for storing recording sheets substantially in an upright position, an image forming unit which forms an image on a recording sheet conveyed from the recording sheet storage unit, and a recording sheet receiving unit for storing the recording sheet conveyed from the image forming unit substantially in an upright position. In this image forming apparatus, a paper conveyance passage for conveying the recording sheet extends upward from a lower portion of the recording sheet storage unit toward the recording sheet receiving unit. The image forming unit positioned on the paper conveyance passage comprises a fixing device and a developer unit at least including a developer carrier, and the fixing device is arranged above the developer unit. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140241779 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes a feed tray, an image forming unit including a photosensitive member, a registration mechanism including a registration roller pair and configured such that, after a leading edge of the sheet fed from the feed tray reaches the registration roller pair, the registration roller pair rotates to convey the sheet toward the photosensitive member along a conveying path, a switchback mechanism for switching back, along a re-conveying path, the sheet having an image formed thereon by the image forming unit, and a re-conveying roller for conveying the switched-back sheet toward the registration roller pair via a conjunction between the re-conveying path and the conveying path. The registration roller pair includes a registration driving roller and a registration pinch roller driven by the registration driving roller. The re-conveying roller in contact with the registration driving roller is driven by the registration driving roller. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20150023710 | MEDIUM CASSETTE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A medium cassette is configured to be held and attached to a main body of an image forming apparatus so that the medium cassette slides in an insertion direction or a pullout direction relative to the image forming apparatus. The medium cassette includes a rear side guide for guiding a medium to be placed at a rear side in the pullout direction; a locking member disposed to be able to engage with a body of the medium cassette for regulating a position of the rear side guide relative to the body of the medium cassette; and a movement conversion member for converting a movement of the rear side guide generated by an impact when the medium cassette is attached to the body of the image forming apparatus to a movement of the locking member in a direction that the locking member engages with the body of the medium cassette. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150050059 | Image Forming Apparatus - There is provided an image forming apparatus including a casing which includes one side wall extending in a vertical direction and has a first opening; and a discharge portion which receives a recording medium having a developer image formed thereon, and a cassette which accommodates recording media and is removably mounted to the casing. The casing further includes a tray which is disposed near the one side wall and receives a recording medium to be transported into the casing through the first opening. The tray is rotatable between a first position where the tray is bent so as to cover at least part of the one side wall and the discharge portion and a second position where the tray extends so as to be separated from the one side wall and receives a recording medium to be supplied into the casing through the first opening. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150104232 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus which includes: a containing portion configured to contain a sheet on which an image is to be formed; a pair of guide rails facing in an up-down direction, the guide rails guiding a slide movement of the containing portion; an engaging portion provided in the guide portion that is guided by the guide rails; a first stopper which abuts the engaging portion so as to regulate removal of the containing portion from an apparatus main body; and a second stopper, wherein the first stopper is movable in a sliding direction. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150301493 | PRINT TARGET MEDIUM SUPPORT MEMBER AND PRINT TARGET MEDIUM TRANSFER APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A print target medium support member, which is used in an image forming apparatus having a print target medium placement table where a print target medium is placed and a transfer section which transfers the print target medium placed thereon, including a print target medium rear-end engaging section which engages a rear end of the print target medium such that it is oriented downward and a print target medium intermediate engaging section which engages an intermediate portion between the tip and the rear end of the print target medium, with a first portion from the tip toward rear forming a first curved portion curved such that a surface side forms a convex shape, and with a second portion of the print target medium at the rear of the first curved portion forming a second curved portion curved such that the opposite surface side forms a convex shape. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20160091854 | Image Forming Apparatus Having Tray for Receiving Recording Medium - In an image forming apparatus, a tray having first and second receiving portions is configured to move between a first position, at which at least part of the tray is positioned inside an apparatus body, and a second position, at which the tray is outside the apparatus body. The tray in the first position allows a first recording medium to be conveyed from the first receiving portion. When the tray is in the first position, the second receiving portion is configured to move between a third position, which is at an upstream side relative to a first opening of the apparatus body in a second direction, and a fourth position, which is at a downstream side relative to the third position in the second direction. The second receiving portion at the third position allows a second recording medium to be conveyed from the second receiving portion in the second direction. | 03-31-2016 |
