Abstract:
An image reader for an image-carrying member is provided which includes a light source for illuminating the image-carrying member, a sensor for detecting light coming from the image-carrying member along a predetermined optical path, and an optical system including a lens fixed to a lens holder. The lens holder together with the lens is movable along the optical path for adjusting the focus of the lens. The image reader also includes a shield member for partially blocking the passage of the light coming from the image-carrying member. The lens and the shield member keep a predetermined distance to each other while the focal adjustment of the lens is being performed.
Abstract:
An image forming or recording machine such as a color copy machine, a color printer, etc. comprises an input unit for inputting or setting selectively various color image forming conditions or data and a color image condition recording unit for recording the conditions input from the input unit on a recording medium for a normal recording operation or for a special image condition recording operation.
Abstract:
An exposure device for use in an image recording apparatus for exposing a photosensitive recording medium to light so as to form a latent image thereon. The device comprises a sheet storage cartridge detachably provided to the image recording apparatus, the cartridge being formed of a light-shielding material for storing therein the photosensitive recording medium and having an exposure zone on an outer surface thereof; exposure means which emits an original image carrying light directing in alignment with the outer surface for exposing the first surface of the photosensitive medium in the exposure zone to light to form the latent image on the photosensitive medium; sheet feeding means driven in timed relation with an exposure for pulling the photosensitive recording medium from the sheet cartridge and positioning the medium at the outer surface; and, a color-tone controlling means fixed to the outer surface and having a reflectivity distribution for exposing the second surface of the photosensitive recording medium for correcting exposure amount with respect to the photosensitive medium with at least one of specific light having at least one of selected wavelengths.
Abstract:
An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a developer sheet. The apparatus includes an exposure unit, a pressure developing unit and thermal fixing unit. The developer sheet is fed through a sheet path extending from a developer sheet cassette to the pressure developing unit where the sheet is superposed with a microcapsule sheet carrying a latent image, and these sheets are pressed together. To avoid diagonal feeding of the developer sheet to the pressure developing unit or to avoid image recordation on the developer sheet having improper size, such undue developer sheet can be detected and is fed toward the outside at toward the outside at the upstream side of the pressure developing unit. For this, there is provided a detecting means, a branch path and sheet change over means these being positioned close to the sheet path.
Abstract:
An image recording device wherein an image is recorded on a photo-sensitive recording medium and said image is once formed as a light-shield image before recorded on the photo-sensitive recording medium. The device comprises light-shield image forming means for forming the light-shield image in a reduced size with respect to the image to be recorded, and enlarged image recording means for recording an image corresponding to the light-shield image in an enlarged size on the photo-sensitive recording medium.
Abstract:
A document feeder includes a document feed unit that feeds a document along a document feed path extending from a document loading section to a document output section via a scanning position. The document feed unit includes a first feed roller pair nipping and feeding a document opposed to the scanning position at a position downstream in a feed direction from the scanning position, and a second feed roller pair nipping and feeding the document fed by the first feed roller pair at a document feed speed higher than that of the first feed roller pair at a position downstream in the feed direction from the first feed roller pair.
Abstract:
A carriage for an image scanning unit which scans an image on an object is provided with a light source, a reflecting member placed to face the light source and configured to reflect a light emitted from the light source toward the object to illuminate the image, a housing that contains the light source and the reflecting member, the housing having an opening which allows the light reflected by the reflecting member to pass through and proceed toward the object, and a radiation plate connected to the reflecting member so that heat is conducted from the reflecting member to the radiation plate, at least part of the radiation plate being exposed to outside the housing.
Abstract:
In a document feeder, a driving control unit feeds a document by a switch-back feeding unit, guides again the document from a document feed path to a bidirectional feed path, and then discharges the document from the document feed path to a document discharging section, when the feeding of the document is in a double-sided scanning feeding mode and in a status during first side feeding. The driving control unit feeds the document by the switch-back feeding unit and then discharges the document from the document feed path, when the feeding of the document is in the double-sided scanning feeding mode and in the status during second side feeding. The driving control unit discharges the document from the document feed path without feeding the document in the switch-back manner, when the feeding of the document is in the double-sided scanning feeding mode and after the second side feeding.
Abstract:
An automatic document feeder, which is capable of feeding a document for double-sided reading, includes a document feed path connecting an input tray and an output tray, a bidirectional feed path connected to a connection position of the document feed path, a bypass diverged from a branch position of the document feed path and connected to the connection position, a guide flap that changes a position thereof between a first guide position and a second guide position, and a guide flap that changes a position thereof between a third guide position and a fourth guide position.
Abstract:
A mirror frame for an image forming apparatus has first and second mirror holders for holding a reflection mirror at two different locations and angular orientations. The reflection mirror is installed in either the first or second holder, depending on the type of condenser lens unit used in the device, so that a light beam used to read a document is accurately focused on a light receiving device. The apparatus may also include a V-shaped condenser lens unit mounting frame that allows different sized condenser lens units to be used on the same frame.