公开(公告)号：US20240411239A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-12

申请号：US18677072

申请日：2024-05-29

Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.

Inventor： Yutaka MIZOTA

IPC: G03G15/02 ,  B08B1/14 ,  B08B1/32 ,  G03G21/16

Abstract: A charging device includes a discharging member, a cleaning member, a conveying screw engaged with the cleaning member by screw action and configured to move the cleaning member when it is rotated, a driving device configured to rotationally drive the conveying screw, a detachable member, and a handle provided on an end portion side opposite to the driving device side in a longitudinal direction of the conveying screw. The detachable member allows the driving device and the conveying screw to be detached from each other in a longitudinal direction of the conveying screw on a driving device side. The handle allows the cleaning member to be manually moved along the discharging member after the driving device and the conveying screw are disengaged by the detachable member. The cleaning member has a home position at the driving device side in the longitudinal direction of the conveying screw.

公开(公告)号：US20170366692A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-21

申请号：US15622062

申请日：2017-06-13

Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.

Inventor： Yutaka MIZOTA ,  Ichiro MURAMATSU ,  Akiyoshi JOHDAI

IPC: H04N1/00 ,  H04N1/32

CPC classification number: H04N1/00588 ,  H04N1/00 ,  H04N1/00204 ,  H04N1/00596 ,  H04N1/00602 ,  H04N1/32496 ,  H04N2201/0013 ,  H04N2201/0063 ,  H04N2201/0081 ,  H04N2201/0082 ,  H04N2201/0086

Abstract: A conveyance device that conveys paper through a conveyance path along a surface thereof includes: a conveyance guide that has a guide surface to be a wall surface on one side of the conveyance path, an opening being formed in the guide surface; a paper detection unit at least including a detection member, which is arranged in a space that communicates with the conveyance path through the opening, and configured to detect, with the detection member, a leading end of the paper that reaches the opening; and a movable body that brings the detection member into a retracted state, in which a main part thereof is covered from the space, after the leading end of the paper is detected.