IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240310772A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-19

    申请号:US18603029

    申请日:2024-03-12

    发明人: Takeshi YOSHIDA

    IPC分类号: G03G15/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a developing separation mechanism. The image forming unit includes an image carrier and a developing device. The developing device includes a developing member and movable in a developing position where the developing member is in contact with the image carrier and a separated position where the developing member is separated away from the image carrier, and is configured to be drawn out from an apparatus main body. The developing separation mechanism includes an arm member configured to interfere with the developing device from a downstream side of a draw-out direction so as to move the developing device from the developing position to the separated position, and to be turned to an upstream side of the draw-out direction by the image forming unit when the image forming unit is drawn out and then be separated from the developing device.

    Image forming apparatus
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11966185B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-23

    申请号:US17950177

    申请日:2022-09-22

    IPC分类号: G03G15/00 G03G15/09

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion including a photosensitive member and a developing portion, a sheet accommodating portion, a sheet feeding portion, and a first frame. The first frame includes an upper space supporting the image forming portion, and a lower space under the upper space. A second frame is mountable to a lower portion of said first frame. The accommodating portion and the feeding portion are replaceable with a supply container containing toner to be supplied to a developing portion of the image forming portion, in which the second frame supports the accommodating portion and the feeding portion.

    Image forming apparatus
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11780692B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-10

    申请号:US17490935

    申请日:2021-09-30

    发明人: Danh Chien Nguyen

    IPC分类号: B65H3/06 G03G15/00 B65H1/02

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a main body housing, an openable/closable part, a sheet feeding tray, an image forming device, a sheet feeding roller, a first coupling, a drive gear, a second coupling, a biasing member, and a link mechanism. The first coupling is provided in the sheet feeding roller. The second coupling is provided coaxially with the drive gear, rotatable following the drive gear, slidable relative to the drive gear in an axial direction and capable of fitting to the first coupling. The biasing member biases the second coupling to the first coupling to connect the second coupling to the first coupling. The link mechanism disconnects the second coupling from the first coupling against a biasing force of the biasing member so as to block a transmission of the drive force with an opening of the openable/closable part.

    DRIVING FORCE TRANSMISSION MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20190210822A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-11

    申请号:US16241546

    申请日:2019-01-07

    摘要: A driving force transmission mechanism includes a first transmission member and a second transmission member that are arranged on an identical rotational center axis. The first transmission member includes one or more transmission claws engaged with the second transmission member. The transmission claw includes, at a position away from the rotational center axis, a fixing portion with respect to the first transmission member, and extends in a direction crossing a direction directed from the fixing portion to the rotational center axis. The second transmission member includes one or more stoppers engaged with a tip end of the transmission claw and one or more holding portions engaged with a side of the transmission claw, which faces the rotational center axis.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    6.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190185287A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-20

    申请号:US16222625

    申请日:2018-12-17

    发明人: Koichi TANAKA

    IPC分类号: B65H43/08 G03G15/00 B65H29/60

    摘要: The image forming apparatus includes: a printing section for conveying a sheet of paper; a reversal section for reversing top-and-back orientation of a sheet; and a control section for, based on an output of an image detection sensor resulting when a sheet has passed through a detection position for the first time, detecting whether or not a first surface is a blank surface, and moreover, based on an output of the image detection sensor resulting when the sheet subjected to reversal process has once again passed through the detection position, detecting whether or not a second surface is a blank surface, whereby the control section decides whether a sheet feed cassette is a back-sided sheet-containing cassette or a new sheet-containing cassette.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20190018352A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-17

    申请号:US16033674

    申请日:2018-07-12

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image former, a fixing device, an image forming path, a circulation path and a hardware processor. Along the image forming path, paper is conveyed to the image former and the fixing device. The circulation path (i) diverges from the image forming path on a downstream side of the fixing device in a paper conveying direction and (ii) meets the image forming path on an upstream side of the image former in the paper conveying direction so as to circulate the paper such that an image forming side of the paper is unchanged. The hardware processor performs paper heating control to (i) make the paper pass through the fixing device without image forming on the paper, thereby heating the paper, and (ii) re-convey the paper via the circulation path to the image former.

    Image Forming Apparatus Which Executes Different Modes Depending on Temperature of Heating Member

    公开(公告)号:US20180284667A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-04

    申请号:US15935327

    申请日:2018-03-26

    发明人: Kenichi Iesaki

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes: a roller; a heating member heating a sheet conveyed by the roller; a temperature sensor outputting a signal depending on a temperature of an end region of the heating member; and a controller. The controller selectively executes a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the roller conveys the first sheet, then conveys the second sheet at a first interval. In the second mode, the roller conveys the first sheet, then conveys the second sheet at a second interval which is longer than the first interval. When the controller has determined that a first time has elapsed after starting continuous printing in the first mode, and when the controller has determined that the temperature of the end region of the heating member is higher than a first temperature, the controller changes the mode from the first mode to the second mode.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180224789A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-09

    申请号:US15710281

    申请日:2017-09-20

    发明人: Kenji ENDO

    IPC分类号: G03G15/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a tray configured to accommodate a plurality of sheets which are conveyed out of the tray for printing, a pressing member movable between a first position at which the pressing member presses the plurality of sheets against the tray and second position at which the pressing member does not press the plurality of sheets against the tray, a drive mechanism configured to cause the pressing member to be moved between the first and second positions, and a control unit configured to control the drive mechanism to move the pressing member into the first position, while a sheet is not supplied for printing from the tray and into the second position while the sheet is supplied for printing from the tray.