公开(公告)号：US20240408900A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-12

申请号：US18733383

申请日：2024-06-04

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Minoru TOKONAMI ,  Mitsuhiro GODA ,  Masaki MURASHIMA ,  Hiroyuki UEDA

IPC: B41J11/00 ,  B41J13/03 ,  B41J13/076 ,  B41J13/08

Abstract: A drying apparatus includes a conveying device, a heating device, a conveying rollers pair, a driving roller rotation detection part, a driven roller rotation detection part, and a control part. The conveying device conveys a medium in a conveyance direction. The heating device dries the ink of the medium under a high temperature environment. The conveying rollers pair is disposed on a downstream side of the heating device, and includes a driving roller and a driven roller. The driving roller rotation detection part detects a rotating of the driving roller. The driven roller rotation detection part detects a rotating of the driven roller. The control part stops the heating device when the rotating of the driving roller is detected by the driving roller rotation detection part and a rotation period obtained by a detection result of the driven roller rotation detection part is longer than a reference rotation period.

公开(公告)号：US20250067508A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-27

申请号：US18806651

申请日：2024-08-15

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Mitsuhiro GODA ,  Masaki MURASHIMA ,  Hiroyuki UEDA ,  Minoru TOKONAMI

IPC: F26B3/30 ,  F26B25/08

Abstract: A drying device dries a recording medium on which an image is formed, while conveying the recording medium. The drying apparatus includes a conveying member and a heating device. The conveying member supports and conveys the recording medium in a predetermined conveyance direction. The heating device heats the recording medium conveyed by the conveying member under a high temperature environment. The heating device includes a heater, a reflector and a lifting mechanism. The heater emits infrared ray. The reflector reflects the infrared ray emitted from the heater toward the recording medium. The lifting mechanism lifts and lowers the reflector relative to the heater to change a number of reflections of the infrared ray.

公开(公告)号：US20250065648A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-27

申请号：US18783376

申请日：2024-07-24

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Mitsuhiro GODA ,  Masaki MURASHIMA ,  Hiroyuki UEDA ,  Minoru TOKONAMI

IPC: B41J11/00

Abstract: A drying apparatus dries a recording medium on which an image is formed, while conveying the recording medium. The drying apparatus includes a conveying member, a heating device, and a drying chamber, and a path. The conveying member supports and conveys the recording medium in a predetermined conveyance direction. The heating device heats the recording medium conveyed by the conveying member under a high-temperature environment. The drying chamber is arranged on an upstream side of the heating device in the conveyance direction of the recording medium and pre-dries the recording medium conveyed by the conveying member. The path communicates the heating device with the drying chamber.

公开(公告)号：US20240399767A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-05

申请号：US18731208

申请日：2024-05-31

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Masaki MURASHIMA ,  Hiroyuki UEDA ,  Minoru TOKONAMI ,  Mitsuhiro GODA

IPC: B41J11/00 ,  B41J13/08

Abstract: A drying apparatus includes an endless conveying belt, a conveying plate, and a suction device. The endless conveying belt has a number of through-holes, and supports the medium and conveys the medium in a predetermined conveyance direction. The conveying plate has a number of through-holes and supports the conveying belt in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the conveying belt. The suction device sucks air through the through-holes of the conveying belt and the through-holes of the conveying plate to attract the medium to the conveying plate. The conveying plate is formed so as to be expandable and contractable in a direction parallel to the conveyance direction.

公开(公告)号：US20230416038A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-28

申请号：US18249322

申请日：2021-10-20

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Minoru TOKONAMI

IPC: B65H29/22

CPC classification number: B65H29/22 ,  B65H2601/521 ,  B65H2801/06 ,  B65H2404/1441 ,  B65H45/00

Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus (1) includes a processing tray (5), a sheet discharge port (7), a conveyance rollers pair (4), lower and upper discharge rollers (81), (82) and a discharge tray (9). When the sheet having a folded portion is stacked on the processing tray (5) with the folded portion downward, a controller rotates the lower and upper discharge rollers (81), (82) to advance the folded portion to the sheet discharge port (7), stops the lower discharge roller (81) before the folded portion passes the sheet discharge port (7), rotates the conveyance rollers pair (4) and the upper discharge roller (82) so as to convey the rear half portion to the downstream side until the sheet passes the conveyance rollers pair (4) and to form a deflection on the sheet, rotates the lower and upper conveyance rollers (81), (82) and then to stack the sheet on the processing tray (5).

公开(公告)号：US20190068816A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-28

申请号：US16111428

申请日：2018-08-24

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Minoru TOKONAMI

IPC: H04N1/00

CPC classification number: H04N1/00816 ,  H04N1/00551 ,  H04N1/00997

Abstract: An image reading device includes a housing that is provided with a contact glass, a document cover, an illumination unit that is received in the housing, and a document size detection unit that performs a document size detection operation for detecting a size of a document by using light irradiated toward the document on the contact glass from the illumination unit when the document cover is switched to a closed state. The illumination unit includes a light guide body extending in a front and rear direction of the housing, a first light source that is disposed at a front side of the light guide body and emits incident light to the light guide body toward a rear side, and a second light source that is disposed at a rear side of the light guide body. In the document size detection operation, only the first light source is lighted.

公开(公告)号：US20240399768A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-05

申请号：US18732572

申请日：2024-06-03

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Minoru TOKONAMI ,  Mitsuhiro GODA ,  Masaki MURASHIMA ,  Hiroyuki UEDA

IPC: B41J11/00 ,  B41J13/08 ,  B41J29/377

Abstract: A drying device according to the present disclosure includes a conveying device, an air blowing device, and an exhaust device. The conveying device conveys a medium on which an image is formed, along a predetermined conveyance direction. The air blowing device sends air toward the medium from above the medium conveyed by the conveying device to dry the medium. The exhaust device takes in air above the medium from both sides of the conveying device in a width direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction and exhausts the taken air to an outside.

公开(公告)号：US20200339172A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-29

申请号：US16854989

申请日：2020-04-22

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Minoru TOKONAMI ,  Masami FUCHI

IPC: B62B3/02 ,  H04N1/00

Abstract: A height adjusting structure includes a coupling member configured to couple a caster to a casing, and the coupling member has a fixing part to which the caster is fixed, an extended part extended upward from the fixing part and penetrating through a bottom wall of the casing, and a meshing part formed at a portion within the casing on the extended part and having a plurality of engaging portions aligned at a predetermined pitch in a vertical direction. The height adjusting structure further includes a restraining member meshing with the meshing part formed on the extended part to restrain the extended part so that the extended part is unable to move vertically.

公开(公告)号：US20180176395A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-21

申请号：US15845388

申请日：2017-12-18

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Minoru TOKONAMI ,  Yoshihiko KUROTSU

IPC: H04N1/00 ,  H04N1/10 ,  H04N1/193 ,  H04N1/12

CPC classification number: H04N1/0083 ,  H04N1/1017 ,  H04N1/103 ,  H04N1/1065 ,  H04N1/1225 ,  H04N1/1934 ,  H04N2201/0094

Abstract: An image reading device includes a contact plate, a frame, a carriage, and a flexible flat cable. The carriage includes a reading mechanism and a resin-made slider projectedly provided at both end portions of the reading mechanism in its extending direction, and reciprocally moves in a sub-scanning direction at a bottom surface side of the contact plate while the slider slides the bottom surface of the contact plate in the frame. The flexible flat cable is connected to an one side surface of the carriage so that a width direction thereof matches the main-scanning direction, is arranged so that a part continued from a portion where the flexible flat cable connects with the one side surface is curved in a U-shape to go around toward an underside of the carriage, and transmits an electric signal of the reading mechanism. The contact plate is applied with a fluorine coating.