G03G15/00

Power Supply Device for Suppressing Cross Regulation and Image Forming Apparatus Including Power Supply Device
20170261910 · 2017-09-14 · ·

A first rectification circuit includes a bypass element connected to both ends of a rectification element. The bypass element is smaller in voltage drop amount than the rectification element. A power supply device is configured to perform switching between a first mode and a second mode based on at least one of information showing a magnitude of electric power that is being supplied to a load and information showing a magnitude of electric power that is to be supplied to the load. In the first mode, an AC voltage is rectified in a path including the rectification element. In the second mode, the AC voltage is rectified in a path including the bypass element.

POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

A power supply control device including a chopper circuit generating a heater current for a halogen heater, a current feedback circuit generating a current feedback signal indicating a current amount based on an amount of the heater current, and a constant current circuit performing pulse-width modulation of the heater current amount according to a difference between a target heater current amount and the current amount indicated by the current feedback signal. The current feedback circuit switches between methods at least including a first method and a second method for generating the current feedback signal. The current feedback signal indicates a greater current amount with the first method than with the second method, and the current feedback circuit uses the first method during a period with a predetermined time length starting from when the halogen heater is turned on, and uses the second method after elapse of the period.

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
20170261913 · 2017-09-14 · ·

An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body and a feed device. The feed device is detachably attached to the apparatus main body and feeds a recording medium. The apparatus main body includes an image forming section and a main body frame. The image forming section forms an image on the recording medium. The main body frame supports the image forming section. The main body frame has a first positioning hole and a second positioning hole. The feed device includes positioning protrusions. When the respective positioning protrusions are fitted into the first and second positioning holes, a relative positional relationship between the main body frame and the feed device is determined.

SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
20170261905 · 2017-09-14 ·

A sheet conveying apparatus includes a pair of first conveying rollers, a pair of second conveying rollers provided at a downstream of the pair of first conveying rollers in a conveying direction of a sheet, a loop being formed in the sheet when a head of the sheet conveyed by the pair of first conveying rollers butts against the pair of second conveying rollers, and a controller which executes a first control mode in which the sheet is conveyed by the pair of first conveying rollers and the pair of second conveying rollers without dissolving the loop formed in the sheet, or a second control mode in which the loop formed in the sheet is dissolved, and the sheet nipped by the pair of first conveying rollers and the pair of second conveying rollers is conveyed.

NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD,PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE, AND PRINTING SYSTEM

There is provided a printing control device. A setting unit sets a sorting priority mode that causes a printing device to perform printing using a recording sheet in which the difference from the recording sheet size designated by a current print job mounted on the printing device is within a predetermined range, in a case where a recording sheet with a same size as the recording sheet designated by the current print job is not mounted on the printing device, and a recording sheet which has a recording sheet size that is printable without reducing the printing range, and for which the difference from the size of the recording sheet designated by the current print job is within a predetermined range is mounted on the printing device in a sheet feed direction different from the sheet feed direction of the recording sheet of the previous print job.

SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE, IMAGE READING DEVICE INCORPORATING THE SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING THE SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE

A sheet conveying device, which is included in an image reading device and an image forming apparatus, includes a passage forming body and a sound absorber. The passage forming body is configured to define a sheet conveying passage through which a sheet passes. The sound absorber includes a hollow portion and a communication portion configured to communication the hollow portion and the sheet conveying passage. A position of the communication portion of the sound absorber is changeable in the sheet conveying passage. The sheet conveying device included in the image reading device includes an original document conveying device configured to convey an original document having an image on a surface. The sheet conveying device included in the image forming apparatus includes a recording medium conveying device configured to convey the recording medium accommodated in a recording medium container to the image forming device.

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
20170261925 · 2017-09-14 ·

An image forming apparatus includes a cartridge including a rotatable photosensitive drum or a rotatable developing sleeve; and a supporting member for detachably supporting the cartridge, the supporting member and being movable between an inside position for permitting mounting of the cartridge to the apparatus and an outside position in direction along an axial direction of the drum or the sleeve. The cartridge is mountable to the supporting member from above. When the supporting member is in the outside position with the cartridge mounted thereon, an upstream end of the supporting member with respect to a moving direction from the inside position toward the outside position is inside the forming apparatus. When the supporting member is in the outside position, a downstream portion thereof is lower than that when the supporting member is in the inside position.

DETACHABLE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
20170261914 · 2017-09-14 · ·

A detachable device includes: a detachable member that is provided to be attachable to and detachable from an apparatus main body in which a first rotating member is provided and that comprises a second rotating member which is brought into press-contact with the first rotating member; a moving member that is provided in the apparatus main body, that holds the detachable member at an attachment position to the apparatus main body so as to maintain a press-contact load between the first rotating member and the second rotating member, and that is movable to a position at which the detachable member is not held by the moving member; and a release member as defined herein.

FLYWHEEL AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

A flywheel includes a rotation shaft, a flywheel body, and a protruding body. A first end of the rotation shaft is supported by a rotating body. The flywheel body is provided at a second end of the rotation shaft and rotates together with the rotation shaft. The protruding body protrudes from a surface at a rotating-body side of the flywheel body and extends in a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft.

PAPER CORRECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM ON WHICH PAPER CORRECTION PROGRAM IS RECORDED
20170261908 · 2017-09-14 ·

A paper correction apparatus B corrects a curl of a sheet S by passing the sheet S through curved paper conveying routes CCP1 and CCP2 whose curving amounts can be changed. The paper correction apparatus B is provided with a control unit B3 which sets the curving amounts of the curved paper conveying routes CCP1 and CCP2, and changes a sheet interval in accordance with the curving amounts which are set. By this configuration, it is possible to inhibit the productivity from being reduced due to paper correction during performing post-printing processes in a finisher which is located in the downstream side of the paper correction apparatus B.