MEDIUM TRANSPORT DEVICE AND MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20230312283A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-05

    申请号:US17901607

    申请日:2022-09-01

    Abstract: A medium transport device includes: a first transport unit on a front side and a first transport unit on a rear side that are respectively disposed in a front part and a rear part of a region having a length in a transport direction of a medium having a transportable minimum size and that transport the medium while nipping the medium; a second transport unit that is disposed between the first transport units and that transports the medium while nipping the medium and pulling the nipped medium outward in a width direction intersecting the transport direction; and a controller that performs control so that the medium transport device transports the medium while nipping the medium by using only the second transport unit when the medium is a thin medium having a thickness less than or equal to a predetermined thickness and so that the medium transport device transports the medium while nipping the medium by using the first transport units and the second transport unit when the medium is a medium other than the thin medium.

    OPTICAL APPARATUS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20250063124A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-20

    申请号:US18443223

    申请日:2024-02-15

    Abstract: An optical apparatus includes: a body part in which a close-contact optical system type reading section having an image sensor that reads light concentrated by a lens is disposed and in which a document platen glass and a first base contact member are disposed on an upper surface; and a covering part in which a second base contact member is disposed, which comes into contact with the first base contact member to perform base contact through a closing operation of a user and which separates from the first base contact member and releases the base contact through an opening operation of the user.

    Charging device, cartridge, and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US12228864B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-18

    申请号:US18446179

    申请日:2023-08-08

    Abstract: A charging device includes: a charging member that rotates in contact with a charged body and charges the charged body; and a cleaning member that comes into contact with the charging member and rotates in conjunction with the charging member, in which the cleaning member includes a foam elastic layer in which a band-shaped foam elastic member is spirally disposed with a pitch, and a diameter of a tip end portion of a cell skeleton protruding to a surface of the foam elastic layer is 50 μm or less, and a peripheral speed ratio of the cleaning member to the charging member is 0.3 or more and 0.7 or less.

    TONER COLLECTION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20250044723A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-06

    申请号:US18432638

    申请日:2024-02-05

    Abstract: A toner collection device includes a toner containing portion that is moved in one direction to be installed on a side of a main body and includes a discharge port that discharges toner in an intersecting direction that intersects with the one direction, a toner collection portion that is provided on the side of the main body and collects toner via a collection port opposed to the discharge port of the toner containing portion moved in the one direction, a seal member that is provided between the discharge port and the collection port and is compressed to increase a sealing property of a connection portion between the discharge port and the collection port and suppress scattering of the toner to outside, and a mechanism that increases a compression amount of the seal member along with movement of the toner containing portion in the one direction.

    DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20250036066A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-30

    申请号:US18429895

    申请日:2024-02-01

    Inventor: Masayuki SHIMODA

    Abstract: A developing device includes: a housing that stores a developer; a developer holding unit that is disposed at an opening portion of the housing that faces an image holding body and that rotates while holding the developer; an exhaust passage through which air in the housing is discharged to outside; and a suction passage through which the developer that leaks out from the opening portion of the housing is sucked. The exhaust passage and the suction passage are disposed at different positions along an axial direction of the developer holding unit.

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