公开(公告)号：US20210062840A1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-04

申请号：US17004212

申请日：2020-08-27

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Akira ISHII ,  Masayuki YAMADA

IPC: F16B7/00 ,  G03G15/00

Abstract: A positioning structure includes a positioning aiding member attached to a horizontal beam of a sheet feeder and having a positioning hole formed at an opposed portion thereof opposed to the horizontal beam. The positioning aiding member has a guide part that, when an image forming apparatus is installed onto a top of the sheet feeder, guides a horizontal beam of the image forming apparatus such that a positioning hole formed in a lower surface of the horizontal beam of the image forming apparatus approaches a first positioning pin coupled with the positioning aiding member as viewed in an extending direction of the horizontal beam of the sheet feeder.

公开(公告)号：US20200262672A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-20

申请号：US16785514

申请日：2020-02-07

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Masayuki YAMADA ,  Yoshifumi OKAUCHI

IPC: B65H31/26 ,  G03G15/00 ,  B41J13/00

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a stacking tray, a control unit, an alignment member and a supporting mechanism. The control unit performs a rotational sorting. An alignment member includes a leading end wall coming into contact with a leading edge of a portrait sheet stack, a pair of first side walls coming into contact with both side edges of the portrait sheet stack and a leading edge of a landscape sheet stack, and a pair of second side walls coming into contact with both side edges of the landscape sheet stack and aligning the portrait sheet stack and the landscape sheet stack. The supporting mechanism supports the alignment member so as to be movable in an alignment position where the alignment member protrudes from an upper face of the stacking tray and in a retracting position where the alignment member retracts from the upper face of the stacking tray.

公开(公告)号：US20190121264A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-25

申请号：US16120477

申请日：2018-09-04

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Masayuki YAMADA

IPC: G03G15/20

CPC classification number: G03G15/2025 ,  G03G21/1628 ,  G03G21/1685 ,  G03G21/169

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressing member, a cover and a cleaning device. The fixing member is configured to heat a toner on a medium while rotating. The pressing member is configured to form a pressing area with the fixing member while rotating and to press the toner on the medium passing through the pressing area. The cover is configured to be moved in one direction in an opening and closing direction to form a part of a conveying path for the medium and to be moved in the other direction in the opening and closing direction to open the part of the conveying path. The cleaning device is provided in the cover and configured to bring a cleaning member into contact with a surface of the fixing member in a state where the cover is moved in the one direction and to clean the surface.

公开(公告)号：US20180348671A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-06

申请号：US15991120

申请日：2018-05-29

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Masayuki YAMADA

IPC: G03G15/16 ,  G03G21/12 ,  G03G21/00 ,  G03G15/02

CPC classification number: G03G15/161 ,  G03G15/0283 ,  G03G21/0011 ,  G03G21/0035 ,  G03G21/12 ,  G03G2215/1661

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt, a cleaning device that sweeps off toner remaining on a transfer surface of the transfer belt by using a rotary brush, electrically adsorbs the toner swept by a recovery roller, and removes the toner, a pre-cleaning brush that slidably contacts with the transfer surface of the transfer belt at an upstream side in a belt rotation direction from the cleaning device, and a support member that supports the pre-cleaning brush. A support wall of the support member is formed with openings that liberate foreign matters such as toner and paper powder deposited onto the pre-cleaning brush.