Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090189344 | SHEET DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a sheet discharging apparatus and an image forming apparatus, in which even a curled sheet can properly be discharged to and stacked on a sheet stacking portion. | 07-30-2009 |
20110243598 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of minimizing the adhesion of a mold release wax vaporized at the time of heating a toner image to components excluding a fixing device inside the image forming apparatus. The mold release wax vaporized at the time of heating and fixing a toner image to a recording material is collected by a collection member, which is provided between a nip portion forming member and the frame of the fixing device, and kept at a temperature between the melting point and the sublimation point of the mold release wax. | 10-06-2011 |
20110318049 | TONER CONVEYING DEVICE OR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE TONER CONVEYING DEVICE - This invention provides a toner conveying device including a toner hashing member having an opening region serving as a connecting region between the connection member and the toner conveying member and configured to break up a clump of toner accumulating in a toner conveying path in a region of the conveying path, which corresponds at least to the opening region, and an image forming apparatus including this toner conveying device. | 12-29-2011 |
20120219315 | CLEANING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USE THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing drum for carrying a toner image; an intermediary transfer member; a primary transfer device for primary transfer of a toner image from the drum onto the intermediary member; a secondary transfer device for secondary transfer of the toner image from the intermediary member onto a sheet; and a cleaning unit for removing the toner on the intermediary member. The cleaning unit includes a scraping member for removing the toner deposited on the intermediary member, an accommodating portion for the removed toner, a discharging member, provided downstream of the scraping member with respect to a moving direction of the intermediary member, for moving the toner in the accommodating portion to the intermediary member by application of a voltage, and a regulating member contacted to the discharging member to regulate an amount of the toner deposited on the discharging member. | 08-30-2012 |
20130094880 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A container is detachably mountable on an apparatus body in a mounting-detaching direction that is along the same direction as a mounting-detaching direction of a transfer unit and that is in the reverse direction of the mounting-detaching direction of the transfer unit. When the transfer unit and the container are mounted on the apparatus body, a belt, a cleaning device, and the container are arranged in that order in a transport direction of the belt. A discharge portion is provided, the discharge portion extending in the mounting-detaching direction of the container, for discharging the toner removed by the cleaning device to the container. | 04-18-2013 |
20130302060 | CONNECTOR FOR HEATER, AND FIXING APPARATUS - An image fixing apparatus for heating and fixing an unfixed image formed on a recording material, comprising a heater including a substrate, a first electrode provided on one side of the substrate and a second electrode provided on the other side of the substrate; and a connector, connected with the heater, for receiving electric power, the connector including an electrically insulative housing, and a contact terminal provided inside the housing and having first spring contact contacted to the first electrode and a second spring contact contacted to the second electrode, wherein the contact terminal is swingable relative to the housing. | 11-14-2013 |
20140376963 | TONER ACCOMMODATING CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In connection with movement of an opening-closing member when a toner accommodating container is attached to the image forming apparatus, the urging direction of an urging member relative to the opening-closing member changes from a direction that causes the opening-closing member to close an opening portion to a direction that causes the opening-closing member to open the opening portion. By using the urging force of the urging member that acts in the direction that causes the opening-closing member to open the opening portion, the toner accommodating container is pulled into the image forming apparatus. | 12-25-2014 |
20150139680 | CONNECTOR FOR HEATER, AND FIXING APPARATUS - An image fixing apparatus for heating and fixing an unfixed image formed on a recording material, comprising a heater including a substrate, a first electrode provided on one side of the substrate and a second electrode provided on the other side of the substrate; and a connector, connected with the heater, for receiving electric power, the connector including an electrically insulative housing, and a contact terminal provided inside the housing and having first spring contact contacted to the first electrode and a second spring contact contacted to the second electrode, wherein the contact terminal is swingable relative to the housing. | 05-21-2015 |