IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    41.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20250013181A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-09

    申请号:US18760382

    申请日:2024-07-01

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a charging device, an exposure device, a developing device, a transfer portion, a cleaning blade, and a control section. The control section detects a charging current amount of the image carrier and, when an integrated current amount obtained by integrating values of the charging current amount in a prescribed length of time is lower than a prescribed threshold value, performs an aging process in which the image carrier is driven to rotate in a charged state.

    BELT CONVEYOR DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20250011112A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-09

    申请号:US18760618

    申请日:2024-07-01

    Inventor: Takeshi YOSHIDA

    Abstract: A correction mechanism of the belt conveyor device, including a pair of inclined bearings and a pair of main-body guides, corrects meanders of a belt. The pair of inclined bearings include a pair of bearing portions, respectively, and a pair of inclined portions, respectively, that are inclined symmetrically with respect to an axial direction of the rollers. The pair of main-body guides are put into contact with the pair of inclined portions, respectively, and make an end side of the rollers in the axial direction moved in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction, together with the pair of inclined bearings during meandering of the belt. The pair of inclined portions and the pair of main-body guides are placed inside the pair of bearing portions, respectively, in the axial direction, as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction.

    INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS
    43.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20250010631A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-09

    申请号:US18763345

    申请日:2024-07-03

    Inventor: Yasuko TAKAORI

    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink, a circulation type recording head, a damper member that supplies the ink to the circulation type recording head, and an ink supply unit that supplies the ink to the damper member. The circulation type recording head ejects to a recording medium at least a portion of the ink supplied from the damper member and discharges the rest of the ink to the ink supply unit. The ink supply unit includes a relief mechanism. The relief mechanism adjusts the pressure of the ink supplied to the damper member to a level no greater than a predetermined value. The ink contains a pigment, binder resin particles, and an aqueous medium. The binder resin particles have a zeta potential of at least −60.0 mV and no greater than −45.0 mV.

    INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS
    44.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20250010620A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-09

    申请号:US18760962

    申请日:2024-07-01

    Inventor: Aiichiro OTANA

    Abstract: A waste ink container includes: a plurality of receiving openings; an absorbing member that absorbs ink; a merging chamber defined by space in a reservoir region where the absorbing member is absent, and located at a position spaced at an interval from each of the plurality of receiving openings; a suction opening forming communication between the merging chamber and the outside of the reservoir region; a plurality of suction air passages defined by space in the reservoir region where the absorbing member is absent, merging with each other in the merging chamber, and forming communication between each of the plurality of receiving openings and the suction opening; and a cover located in the reservoir region and having lower gas permeability than the absorbing member. The cover covers the merging chamber from a direction perpendicular to a certain direction.

    INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS
    45.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20250010616A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-09

    申请号:US18764103

    申请日:2024-07-03

    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a blade, and a cleaning liquid supply member. The head unit is provided with a nozzle surface. The cleaning liquid supply member includes a supply port, a sheet member, and a holder. When the cleaning liquid supply member is moved to a supply position and then the recording head is lowered, a tip end of the sheet member comes into contact with the nozzle surface, and then the cleaning liquid supply member is turned from an inclined posture to a supply posture while the tip end of the sheet member is moved along the nozzle surface forward in the moving direction, and the sheet member is disposed between the supply port and the nozzle surface.

    Image forming apparatus with an interlocking mechanism for moving a heating unit

    公开(公告)号:US12189328B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-07

    申请号:US18360532

    申请日:2023-07-27

    Inventor: Takuro Morita

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a heating unit, a fixing unit, a first cover member, an opening portion, a second cover member, an interlocking mechanism, an operating portion, and an operation portion. The operating portion is provided on a side surface of the apparatus main body and operates to turn ON or OFF a power supply. The operation portion is provided on the first cover member and operates the operating portion in a state where the first cover member is arranged at a first closed position.

    Image forming apparatus
    47.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12189324B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-07

    申请号:US18523656

    申请日:2023-11-29

    Inventor: Ryohei Kageyama

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing frame and a waste toner unit. The housing frame includes a support frame which supports the waste toner unit. The waste toner unit includes a waste toner bottle and a retention sheet metal which retains the waste toner bottle. The support frame includes a through-hole. The retention sheet metal includes a convex portion inserted into the through-hole, and a wedge member which protrudes from the convex portion. The wedge member latches the convex portion to an edge portion of the through-hole in the support frame.

    IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20250008038A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-02

    申请号:US18704675

    申请日:2023-06-13

    Inventor: Akifumi SETO

    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a CCD sensor that reads an image on a first face of a document, oriented upward on a document tray, while the document is being transported through the first transport route, a CIS that reads an image on a second face of the document, oriented downward on the document tray, while the document is being transported through the common transport route, and a controller that permits a facsimile communication device to transmit the image on the first face of the document read by the CCD sensor, and restricts the facsimile communication device from transmitting the image on the second face of the document, read by the CIS.

    IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20250004994A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-02

    申请号:US18692246

    申请日:2022-09-16

    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a reading device generating scan data by reading a sheet, and a communication device capable of communicating with a data management apparatus managing a plurality of folders including a shared folder in a hierarchical structure. The communication device transmits the scan data and folder designation information designating the shared folder from the plurality of folders managed in the hierarchical structure by the data management apparatus to the data management apparatus.

    INKJET INK SET AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20250002742A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-02

    申请号:US18753519

    申请日:2024-06-25

    Inventor: Yasuko TAKAORI

    Abstract: An inkjet ink set includes an undercoat liquid and one or more inkjet inks. The undercoat liquid contains first binder resin particles, a first aqueous medium, and a first surfactant. The one or more inkjet inks each contain a second pigment, second binder resin particles, a second aqueous medium, and a second surfactant. At a temperature of 20° C., a density ρ1 of the undercoat liquid and a density ρ2 of an inkjet ink of the one or more inkjet inks that has the highest density among those of the one or more inkjet inks satisfy a relationship represented by formula (1): ρ1−ρ2>0.05 g/cm3 . . . (1).

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