Kyocera Document Solutions Patente

An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of units, a control portion and a switching portion. The plurality of units share in executing part or all of an image forming process. The control portion accesses a non-volatile storage portion provided in each of the units. The switching portion switches a connection target connected to the control portion via one communication line between the plurality of storage portions corresponding to the plurality of units.

A fixing device (11) includes a cylindrical fixing belt (41), a heater (43), a pressure roller (25), a pair of holding members (47), and a separation guide (27). The fixing belt (41) has flexibility and is rotatably supported. The heater (43) heats the fixing belt (41). The pressure member (25) is rotatably supported and faces the heater (43) across the fixing belt (41) to form a pressurized region. The pair of holding members (47) hold both end portions of the fixing belt (41). The separation guide (27) separates the sheet passed through the pressurized region from the fixing belt (41). The separation guide (27) is positioned with respect to the pair of holding members (47) such that its tip faces the fixing belt (41) at a predetermined interval and is supported movably in a direction away from the fixing belt (41).

An image reading apparatus (2) includes an operation device (16), a communication device (22), and a controller (10). The operation device (16) allows a user's instruction to be input. The communication device (22) performs communications via a network with an information processing device. When accepting specification of a port number through the operation device (16), the controller (10) allows the communication device (22) to use a specified port corresponding to the specified port number to send to-be-sent data to a shared folder on the information processing device. Upon failure to establish a connection with the information processing device using the specified port, the controller (10) allows the communication device (22) to use another port different from the specified port to send the to-be-sent-data to the shared folder.

An inkjet recording apparatus (9) includes a recording head (7) and an ink circulation portion (8) including an ink storage container (100). The ink storage container (100) includes a main body portion (1), a lid portion (2), an ink inflow port (3), an ink outflow port (4), and a bubble discharge port (5). The ink circulation portion (8) includes a plurality of ink storage containers (100) for one recording head (7). The recording head (7) has a plurality of ink feed ports (70). The plurality of ink feed ports (70) are connected respectively to the ink outflow ports (4) of the corresponding ink storage containers (100) and feeds the ink flowing out through the ink outflow ports (4) of the corresponding ink storage containers (100) to the recording head (7).

A charging unit charges a belt member in a non-contact manner by corona discharge. Each of a pair of end portion support members includes a unit support portion, a belt support portion, and an abutting portion. The unit support portion supports an end portion of a heater unit in a specific direction. The belt support portion is inserted into an end portion of the belt member in the specific direction, rotatably supports the end portion of the belt member, and guides a rotational trajectory of the end portion of the belt member. The abutting portion protrudes toward a side of the charging unit and abuts against an end portion of the charging unit in the specific direction to retain an interval between the belt support portion and the charging unit constant.

A toner includes a toner particle. The toner particle includes a toner core (2a). The toner core (2a) contains a binding resin, a magnetic particle and a carbon nanotube. The content of the magnetic particle in the toner core (2a) is equal to or greater than 30.0% by mass and equal to or less than 50.0% by mass, and the content of the carbon nanotube in the toner core (2a) is equal to or greater than 0.10% by mass and equal to or less than 1.00% by mass.

A paper alignment apparatus (100) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a paper alignment apparatus for adjusting a paper skew, including an alignment plate (24) arranged parallel to a paper feed direction and a width guide mechanism (40) for pushing paper against the alignment plate. The paper includes thin paper or thick paper. The width guide mechanism includes paper rollers (43) in contact with the paper, a first width guide spring (45) for applying a load to the thin paper or the thick paper, and a second width guide spring (46) for applying a load to the thick paper. The first width guide spring applies a load to the paper when the paper rollers are pressed by the paper. The second width guide spring applies a load to the paper when an amount of movement of the paper rollers pressed by the paper is greater than or equal to a first threshold.

A unit support mechanism is capable of adjusting a unit distance which is a distance between a conveying path and a contact image sensor unit. A filter processing device executes sharpening filter processing on read image data. A control device causes, before a print job is executed, the unit support mechanism to execute an operation of adjusting the unit distance to a representative distance corresponding to representative sheet characteristics. The control device specifies, every time the sharpening filter processing is executed, a target parameter corresponding to a combination of target sheet characteristics and the representative distance from among a plurality of candidate parameters, and sets the target parameter in the filter processing device.

The static eliminator (30) and the first guide (31) are provided downstream of the transfer nip in a direction of conveyance of the sheet, and on the same side as the transfer roller (26) opposite to the drive roller (23). The follower rolling element (32) is supported by the first guide (31) to locate downstream of the static eliminator (30) in the direction of conveyance of the sheet and allow for driven rotation. The follower rolling element (32) is disposed with a center of rotation thereof located on the same side as the transfer roller (26) with respect to an imaginary travel line on which a leading edge of the sheet having passed through the transfer nip is assumed to travel under assumption of absence of the follower rolling element (32) and with a rotating surface of the follower rolling element (32) projecting to the same side as the drive roller (23) beyond the imaginary travel line.

A circuit board has a mounting hole in which terminals of a laser diode are inserted, the terminals extending to the side opposite to a laser beam emitting direction. A peripheral wall portion has a guide member. The guide member protrudes from an outer circumferential surface and is inserted into a board insertion hole formed in the circuit board. A distal end of the guide member is positioned on an opposite side of the laser beam emitting direction with respect to a distal end of the laser diode terminal.

Various initial settings are performed appropriately and easily for a user during installation or initial setup of an application. A setting value management unit of a management server sets one or more setting values for one or more setting items of a client application. A setting key management unit of the management server generates and manages a setting key linked to a group of the one or more setting values set for the one or more setting items. A setting key supply unit of the management server supplies a download URL for an installer of the client application and the setting key to an electronic device on which the client application is installed. A setting value supply unit of the management server receives the setting key from the electronic device and transmits the group of the one or more setting values set for the one or more setting items linked to the setting key to the electronic device.

A reinforcing member is fixed to a part of joined square pipes. The plurality of square pipes include a first column pipe, a second column pipe, a first beam pipe, and a second beam pipe. The first beam pipe is joined to a lower end portion of the first column pipe and a lower end portion of the second column pipe. The second beam pipe is joined to the first column pipe and the second column pipe above the first beam pipe. The reinforcing member has a pair of beam contact portions and a connecting portion. The pair of beam contact portions contact an upper surface of the first beam pipe and a lower surface of the second beam pipe, respectively. The connecting portion is connected to the pair of beam contact portions via a pair of first bent portions.

A gateway device is connected between a server device and at least one of one or more client devices for the server device and monitors the one or more client devices, the server device and the one or more client devices being connected to each other via a network, the gateway device including a control circuit that displays a GUI on a display device, the GUI displaying a troubleshooting button for starting troubleshooting of a target client device that is one of the client devices, and starts the troubleshooting of the target client device when the troubleshooting button is operated by a user.

A movable member has a first through portion and a second through portion through which a support shaft passes, and a first contact surface and a second contact surface. In a support state in which a support mechanism supports a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion of a processing unit at a target position, the support shaft contacts a lower edge portion of a first through hole in the first through portion, the first contact surface sandwiches the first protruding portion between the first contact surface and a first support portion due to a biasing force of a biasing member, the second contact surface sandwiches the second protruding portion between the second protruding portion and a second support portion, and lower and upper edge portions of a second through hole in the second through portion do not contact the support shaft.

A recording head (17a to 17c) includes an ink ejection portion (41) having a plurality of ejection nozzles (18) for ejecting ink and an ink reservoir (43) coupled to the ink ejection portion (41). The ink reservoir (43) includes an in-head flow passage (46) coupled to a common flow passage (40) for circulating ink, an air bubble separation portion (47) that separates air bubbles contained in ink flowing through the in-head flow passage (46), a valve member (50) that opens and closes an air bubble discharge port (47b) formed in a top part of the air bubble separation portion (47), and an ink discharge flow passage (48) extending downward from an ink inflow port (47a) formed in a lower end part of the air bubble separation portion (47) and coupled to the ejection nozzles (18) in the ink ejection portion (41). The in-head flow passage (46) is coupled substantially horizontally to the ink discharge flow passage (48) and a junction portion (52) between the in-head and the ink discharge flow passages (46, 48) is below the ink inflow port (47a).

A gateway device is connected between a server device and at least one of one or more client devices for the server device, the server device and the one or more client devices being connected to each other via a network, the gateway device including a control circuit that obtains device information from the one or more client devices at predetermined polling intervals, and displays on a display device a menu screen for displaying a smart polling button and displays, when the smart polling button is operated by a user, a smart polling screen for displaying the polling intervals individually set for the one or more client devices.

A fixing device (11) includes a fixing member (41), a pressure member (25), a pair of holding members (47), and a pair of side plates (31). The pair of side plates (31) are arranged in parallel to the conveying direction, and have recesses (37) to which the pair of holding members are mounted. Each of the pair of holding members (47) includes a shaft support portion (53), a regulating surface (51), and an upstream groove (59) and a downstream groove (61). The pair of holding members (47) are configured such that, when the pair of holding members (47) are mounted in the recesses (37) such that the side plates (31) are fitted into the upstream groove (59) and the downstream groove (61), a distance between the regulating surfaces (51) is widened from the upstream side to the downstream side in the conveying direction.

An image forming apparatus (1) comprises a fixing device (8), an ejecting device (9), and a roof section (30). The fixing device (8) thermally fixes a toner image to a medium (P). The ejecting device (9) ejects the medium (P) from an ejection port (9A) provided at an upper portion of an apparatus body (2) toward an ejection tray (4). The roof section (30) is positioned above the ejecting device (9) and formed as a cantilever beam facing the ejection tray (4) across a space. The roof section (30) comprises a diffusion suppression plate (31) extending along a medium (P) ejecting direction from the apparatus body (2) above the ejection port (9A), and a diffusion suppression rib (32) protruding downward from a downstream end of the diffusion suppression plate (31) in the ejecting direction and facing a part of the ejecting device (9) at an interval.

When making a folding portion (1) perform a folding process, a control portion (3) drives the folding portion (1) and rotates a pair of first switchback rollers (11) forward. After the leading edge of a sheet (S) passes through a first switchback nip (SN1), the control portion (3) stops driving the folding portion (1) and stops rotating the pair of first switchback rollers (11) forward. The control portion (3) then starts rotating the pair of first switchback rollers (11) reverse and restarts driving the folding portion (1). When a slack part of the sheet (S) is drawn into a first folding nip (FN1), the control portion (3) first starts rotating the pair of first switchback rollers (11) reverse and then restarts driving the folding portion (1).

A sheet post-processing apparatus (100) includes a discharge port (101), a discharge section (2), a discharge tray (T1), a processing tray (3), a folding section (1), a support member (5) that includes a support portion (50) supporting a part of a sheet (S) placed on the processing tray (3) from below, the part protruding via the discharge port (101) so as to be positioned above a discharge tray (T1), and that is movable between a protrusion position, at which the support portion (50) protrudes so as to be positioned above the discharge tray (T1), and a retraction position, at which the support portion (50) is retracted, and a control section (7). When newly loading a Z-folded sheet (Sz) onto the processing tray (3) in a state in which a sheet (S) is placed thereon, the control section (7) moves the support member (5) from the protrusion position to the retraction position.

A fixing device includes a temperature sensor that is provided on a support surface facing a fixing member and detects a temperature of the fixing member. The temperature sensor includes a substrate, a connector, a temperature detection device, and a pair of through hole portions. The connector is provided at an end of the substrate on a downstream side in a first direction along one side of the substrate and has a connection portion to which a cable is connected that faces the first direction. The temperature detection device is provided upstream of the connector on the substrate in the first direction and detects the temperature of the fixing member. The pair of through hole portions is provided on both sides of the temperature detection device in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and used for positioning the temperature sensor on the support surface.

A packaging member (1) is formed by bending a single sheet material and includes a bottom plate portion (11), a first side wall portion (13), a second side wall portion (14), a top plate portion (12), and a support plate portion (21). The support plate portion (21) is connected to an end of the top plate portion (12) near the first side wall portion (13) in a second direction (D2) and is bent from the top plate portion (12) so as to be folded vertically downward toward the bottom plate portion (11), with a distal end thereof abutting against the article (P) to be packaged. The top plate portion (12) is bent along a first folding line (13b, 13c). The support plate portion (21) is bent from the top plate portion (12) along a second folding line (13a). The support plate portion (21) is positioned on an inner side relative to the first side wall portion (13) in the second direction (D2).

An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a cover portion, a shutter output portion, and a main linking mechanism. The apparatus main body has an attachment portion therein to which a developing agent container having a shutter input portion that receives external force to open and close a shutter that blocks a developing agent outlet is attached, and a main opening formed to communicate with the attachment portion. The cover portion is capable of opening and closing the main opening. The shutter output portion engages with the shutter input portion and displaces between an open position causing the shutter to open and a closed position causing the shutter to close. The main linking mechanism links the shutter output portion with the opening and closing operation of the cover portion.

A board cooling device includes a board, a casing, one or more fans, and a first air channel. On the board, one or more components are mounted. The casing houses the board. The one or more fans form an airflow into the casing from a specific space in which a process unit that performs processing associated with heat generation in an apparatus main body of an image forming apparatus is disposed.

A switch unit is supported by a main body including a metallic structural body and includes a pressed part. A press button is supported to be movable by a cover member that closes the main body or an opening of the main body and moves from a reference position away from the pressed part to a pressure position to press the pressed part by being pressed. An electrically conductive, electrostatic conduction member is supported by the main body and includes a contact part that comes into contact with a portion of the structural body and a button proximity part that is arranged at a position closer to the press button located at the reference position than the switch unit.

The control device performs automatic preparation control to cause a raising and lowering mechanism to perform an operation of raising a feed tray from an evacuation position in accordance with detection of a fed-document presence state by a fed-document detection device on a normal mode. The control device shifts from a normal mode to a special mode on which the automatic preparation control is not performed and causes the raising and lowering mechanism to perform an operation of moving the feed tray to the evacuation position when a special event is detected before document conveyance is started after the raising of the feed tray according to the detection of the fed-document presence state is started. The control device shifts from the special mode to the normal mode when a return event is detected on the special mode.

A light emitting module includes a laser diode and a bracket. The laser diode has a plurality of light emitting points emitting a laser beam. The bracket has a holding hole holding the laser diode. The bracket is fixed to the outer circumferential surface of a circumferential wall part with the laser diode inserted in a light entrance hole formed in the circumferential wall part. The circumferential wall part has a protruding part protruding from the circumferential part of the light entrance hole toward the bracket. The bracket has a recessed part recessed from a circumferential part of the holding hole in a direction away from the circumferential wall part with the protruding part disposed in the recessed part receiving. A space formed between the bracket and the circumferential wall part bends in a direction opposite to the emission direction of the laser beam between the recessed and protruding parts.

A toner container is detachably attached to an attachment target part of an image forming apparatus and includes a container body, a delivery port, a first shutter, and a second shutter. The first shutter is movable between a first close position to close the delivery port and a first open position to open the delivery port. The second shutter is arranged at a position farther from the delivery port than the first shutter in a delivery direction and is movable between a second close position to close the delivery port and a second open position to open the delivery port.

A first temperature sensor detects (53) a first temperature of a region in a heating device (52). A second temperature sensor (54) detects a second temperature of a portion of the heating device (52) between one end, and an end of the region on the side of the one end. A sheet sensor (55) detects a medium passing a position in a nip region corresponding to a portion of the heating device (52) between the other end, and the other end of the region on the side of the other end of the heating device (52). A controller (100) starts successive transport of the medium at a first number. Upon deciding that a temperature difference is smaller than a first threshold, and that the medium has not been detected, the controller (100) changes the number of sheets of the successive transport to a second number, fewer than the first number.

A fixing device (13) includes: a heat roller (31); a heating device (52) disposed inside the heat roller (31) to heat the heat roller (31); a pressure roller (32) opposed to the heat roller (31) and forming, together with the heat roller (31), a nip (N) where a recording medium (P) to be subjected to fixing processing is to be passed through; a conveyance guide (61) that guides the recording medium (P) to the nip (N) and is provided with a gap (G) from the pressure roller (32) in a direction in which the conveyance guide (61) guides the recording medium (P), and an air blower (71) disposed in a region located on the pressure roller (32) side of the conveyance guide (61) in a direction of alignment of the heat roller 4520251207 (31) and the pressure roller (32) to blow air toward the heat roller (31) through the gap (G).

An optical scanning device includes a polygon mirror, a mirror cover, and a position sensing portion. The polygon mirror rotates about a rotation axis extending along the top-bottom direction to reflect laser light and scans the circumferential surface of an image carrying member along a main scanning direction. The mirror cover covers the polygon mirror. The position sensing portion senses the rotation position of the polygon mirror. The mirror cover has an opening part. The opening part penetrates, along the radial direction, part of a circumferential wall part covering the polygon mirror from radially outward. The position sensing portion is disposed on the mirror cover with at least part of it disposed in the opening part.

A punching device (PU) includes a punching member (1), a pin (2) that protrudes one end portion (21) and the other end portion (22) thereof in the second direction (D2) from the punching member (1), a holder (3) that is coupled to the one end portion (21) and the other end portion (22), and a guide (4) that accommodates the punching member (1). The guide (4) has pin insertion holes (40). The one end portion (21) and the other end portion (22) protrude to outside the guide (4) through the pin insertion holes (4). The holder (3) has a fitting hole (30), and the guide (4) is fitted into the fitting hole (30) such that the holder (3) is held so as to be movable along an outer circumferential surface of the guide (4). The fitting hole (30) has a recessed portion (31) that is recessed outward in a radial direction. The guide (4) has a protruding portion (41) that is positioned within the recessed portion (31).

An electronic apparatus includes a controller circuit board, and an internal device configured to be controlled by the controller circuit board. Further, the controller circuit board includes a memory module and a processor configured to transmit and receive a transmission signal to/from the memory module and thereby perform read and write of data. The processor includes a first input/output circuit configured to transmit and receive the transmission signal, and the memory module includes a second input/output circuit configured to transmit and receive the transmission signal. If the read or the write is not performed properly due to waveform distortion of the transmission signal, the processor changes an output condition or an input condition of the transmission signal in at least one of the first and second input/output circuits such that the waveform distortion does not cross a level detection threshold value of the transmission signal.

A document sheet (101) is put on a feeding tray (11). A lifting device (22) lifts and lowers the feeding tray. A feeding roller (12a) receives contact with the document sheet and feeds the document sheet. A sensor (42) detects that the document sheet on the feeding tray makes contact with the feeding roller. A controller (51) controls the lifting device and thereby controls a height position of the feeding tray, and performs feeding and transportation of the document sheet using the feeding roller when the sensor detects that the document sheet makes contact with the feeding roller. Further, when the feeding and transportation of the document sheet is failed, the controller performs additional lifting of the feeding tray by a specific retry distance using the lifting device and thereafter performs feeding and transportation of the document sheet again. Here, the retry distance is set on the basis of a type of the document sheet.

The inkjet recording apparatus (100) includes a recording head (1), a cleaning member (2), and a container member (3). The container member (3) includes a containing part (31) which has an upwardly opening recessed area (310) and in which detergent supplied from above is contained in the recessed area (310), and a base part (32) which adjoins the containing part (31) in a first direction (D1) perpendicular to an up/down direction. The containing part (31) has a discharge hole (311) extending through the recessed area (310) in the up/down direction, and supplies the cleaning member (2) with the detergent flowing out downward from the discharge hole (311). An upper surface (32S) of the base part (32) is higher in liquid repellency to the detergent than an upper surface (31S) of the containing part (31).

A support member (8) of the present disclosure supports a bar-shaped packed article (6). The support member (8) has a first support portion (1) arranged adjacent to the packed article (6) in the longitudinal direction and a second support portion (3). The first support portion (1) has a first insertion portion (2) formed in it which is configured as a hole with an inner diameter equal to or larger than the outer diameter of the packed article (6). The second support portion (3) is arranged closer to an end of the packed article (6) than the first support portion (1) and has a second insertion portion (4) formed in it which is configured as two or more intersecting linear cuts.

The inkjet recording apparatus (100) includes a head unit (HU), a cleaning member (2), and a container member (3) which, by being pressed from above to below, is displaced from a first position to a second position, the container member (3) functioning in the second position to supply the cleaning member (2) with a detergent. The container member (3) includes a containing part (31) for containing the detergent, and a base part (32) which adjoins the containing part (31) in a first direction (D1) perpendicular to an up/down direction. The head unit (HU) has a head base (11), and the head base (11) presses the base part (32) from above to below without making contact with the containing part (31) so that the container member (3) is displaced from the first position to the second position.

The inkjet recording apparatus (100) includes a recording head (1), a cleaning member (2), a container member (3) which, by being pressed from above to below, is displaced from a first position to a second position and which, while in the second position, accepts supply of detergent, and a supply member (5) which is placed above the container member (3) to supply the container member (3) with the detergent. The container member (3) includes a containing part (31) for accepting supply of the detergent, and a base part (32) which adjoins the containing part (31) in a first direction (D1) perpendicular to an up/down direction. The supply member (5) presses the base part (32) from above to below without making contact with the containing part (31) so that the container member (3) is displaced from the first position to the second position.

Magnetic carrier include a carrier core and a resin coat layer that coats the surface of the carrier core, and can electrostatically charge toner positively by friction. The resin coat layer contains polyimide silicone resin and silica particles.

A device registration system (40) allows an electronic device (60) to be registered into an application providing system (20) that provides an application for use by the electronic device (60). When receiving from the electronic device (60) a request to register the electronic device (60) into the application providing system (20), the device registration system (40) allows the application providing system (20) to create a tenant in association with which the electronic device (60) as a source of the request is to be registered and allows the application providing system (20) to register the electronic device (60) as the source of the request in association with the tenant created by the application providing system (20).