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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8131201 | Image forming apparatus with paper cassette having space for receiving roller supporting member An image forming apparatus has a paper feeding cassette that selectively stores at least first and second kinds of paper sheets having different sizes with respect to a paper feeding direction. Heights of the paper sheets storable in the paper feeding cassette are s... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8019269 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a case comprising an opening for feeding a recording sheet into an interior of the case; a cover comprising an actuator unit, the cover capable of being moved between a closed state in whic... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7986911 | Architecture for a media feeding option for an image forming device The present application is directed to image forming devices with option trays to introduce media into a media path. One embodiment include the image forming device having a body with a front, back, top, and bottom sides. The sides may form an interior space to cont... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7668501 | Medium supplying apparatus and image forming apparatus A medium supplying apparatus is assembled to an image forming apparatus. A medium tray supports a medium thereon, and is pivotal about a first axis and extends from the first axis. The medium tray has a guide path that extends in the first radial direction. A feeder... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668500 | Image forming device An image forming device includes an image forming device body having an image forming unit in the interior thereof, and at least one paper tray attached to the image forming device on which paper is to be mounted. The paper tray includes a paper mounting unit having... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7539454 | Printing apparatus and printing method In a conventional printing apparatus with a plurality of paper feed ports, since a paper type limits the paper feed port usable for paper feed, a user must know in advance a paper feed port to set a paper sheet. This arrangement is not user-friendly. A printing appa... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7444112 | Medium supplying apparatus and image forming apparatus A medium supplying apparatus is assembled to an image forming apparatus. A medium tray supports a medium thereon, and is pivotal about a first axis and extends from the first axis. The medium tray has a guide path that extends in the first radial direction. A feeder... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444095 | Image forming apparatus and printing control method therefor The present invention is an image forming apparatus having no two-sided printing mechanism in which, by setting a front side printed paper sheet in a manual paper feed section, the paper sheet is taken from the manual paper feed section and a back side printing is e... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444113 | Image formation device An image formation device is equipped with a withdrawably provided paper supply cassette. A display portion and a cover-like opening/closing portion are also provided. The display portion is formed at an upper portion of a withdrawal side of the paper supply cassett... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7429041 | Apparatus for feeding sheet using retractable edge guide for guiding lateral edge of sheet An apparatus for feeding a sheet to a processing device processing the sheet is disclosed that includes: a feeder tray displaceable to a selected one of a retracted position and an unfolded position relative to the processing device, and having a sheet-loaded plane ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7382998 | Robust door panel breakaway mechanism for an image forming device A breakaway device and method that may be used in conjunction with a door panel on an image forming device. The door panel may be a multipurpose feed door or otherwise provide access to the interior of the image forming device. The door panel may be movable between ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383015 | Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus On a relay guide neighboring with a paper supply tray, a guide rib rotated and projected from a guide face is installed, and the width of sheets is controlled, thus an occurrence of skewing of various sheets supplied from a paper supply tray is prevented, and the co... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376383 | Device for regulation of the sliding properties of a print substrate in an electrophotographic printer or copier In an electrophotographic printer or copier, toner images of images to be printed onto a printing substrate are generated and fixed, causing sliding characteristics to be worsened. In order to remedy this problem, a moistening device is provided that applies on the ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366459 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, comprising a case that accommodates an image forming unit; a sheet cassette that is capable of moving relative to the case; and a cover disposed above the sheet cassette, wherein the cover covers a side of the case in which the sheet cass... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356302 | Paper supply device and image forming device equipped with same A manual paper supply device is equipped with a paper shear prevention member 35 for preventing shear of the paper 9 loaded into the manual feed paper supply tray. A brush 36 is arranged on the paper shear prevention member 35 to make con... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7302223 | Image forming device An image forming device includes an image forming device body having an image forming unit in the interior thereof, and at least one paper tray attached to the image forming device on which paper is to be mounted. The paper tray includes a paper mounting unit having... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292820 | Integrated media input tray including electronics A removable media tray for an image forming apparatus includes a housing, an exit port in the housing, a primary media stack, and a multi-purpose tray (MPT) input. Within the tray are first and second pick mechanisms operative to select a media sheet from the primar... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289760 | Printing device with manual paper feeding function A printing device with a manual paper feeding function includes a manual paper feeding unit which feeds a plurality of papers, a size sensor which detects a paper size of a fed paper, a paper size error determining unit that determines a presence or an absence of a ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7272335 | Image forming device An image forming device is disclosed which includes an open/close switch for detecting the opening and closing of a manual feed tray, and a power control unit for turning on specific power when the open/close switch detects that the manual feed tray has been opened.... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7234883 | Tape printer It is intended to provide a tape printer which enables to forcibly separate a platen roller and a print head along with an opening operation of a cover element in case the platen roller and the print head have adhered to each other because of a long-period storage o... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7142805 | Manual feeding tray and image forming apparatus Image forming apparatus having a manual feeding tray on which transfer sheet is placed and an image forming device to form images on the transfer sheet fed from the manual feeding tray, wherein the image forming apparatus has a storage section to store the sheet fee... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7120382 | Image forming apparatus and control method for rotating image data based on sheet type and orientation To obtain proper output results regardless of the type of recording sheets and obtain the user's desired output results without having the user perform cumbersome operations, the user operates an operating section to select a sheet feeding stage, gives an instructio... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7062196 | Duplex image forming device having a reversible transportation unit inserted into an image forming device A duplex image forming device includes an image forming device and a reversible transportation unit. The image forming device includes a paper transportation path, a paper feed unit which transports a paper to the paper transportation path, a printing unit which pri... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062216 | Image forming device capable of selectively mounting different sheet feed units In an image forming device, left and right mounting frames are disposed on the respective left and right frames of the image forming device by hooking pawls provided on the front side thereof. The mounting frames support a paper supply roller and separating mechanis... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058352 | Image forming apparatus A paper feed cassette or a paper transporting unit is selectively inserted into an image forming apparatus body. A manual paper feed unit is coupled to the paper transporting unit. A recording medium is fed out of the manual paper feed unit, passes through the paper... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7002711 | Image reading device and method An image reading device is operable in a manually placed document reading mode offered by a manually placed document reading section and an ADF document reading mode offered by an ADF document reading section. Reading mode detecting section detects in which mode a d... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6962332 | Media conveying mechanism A media conveying mechanism located in a media data recorder for conveying media mainly includes a driving motor to provide driving power needed. A first clutch to control the operation of a pickup roller. A second clutch to control rotation direction of an intermed... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6950622 | Manual paper feeding apparatus A manual paper feeding apparatus comprises a tray for manual paper feeding, a paper feed roller to feed the paper fed manually from the tray, a separation roller which is pressed to contact the paper feed roller, rotated at the pressed contact position in the direct... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6945720 | Printer A printer includes a transporting block, a printing block, a positioning block, and an intermediate picking-up device. The positioning block is disposed between the transporting block and the printing block, and positions printing sheets transported by the transport... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6792242 | Manual paper feeding apparatus A manual paper feeding apparatus comprises a tray for manual paper feeding, a paper feed roller to feed the paper fed manually from the tray, a separation roller which is pressed to contact the paper feed roller, rotated at the pressed contact position in the direct... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6711376 | Manual feed apparatus According to this invention, in a manual feed apparatus having an opening/closing tray which can be stored in an image forming apparatus main body by swing operation, and a feedout member which feeds a sheet stacked on the opening/closing tray, the opening/closing t... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6644656 | Paper feeder A paper feeder including a platen roller for feeding paper sheet supplied from a manual paper supply opening to a printing section and conveying the same after printing again to the manual paper supply opening so as to be discharged. In the paper feeder, ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6456801 | Image forming apparatus with a sheet-size specifying function The present invention provides an image forming apparatus for reading an image on a document having a main scanning direction and a sub scanning direction and forming a copy image of the image on a copy image forming medium. When a sheet feeding section s... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6330423 | Image forming apparatus The ability of manual paper feeders to cope with increasing types of paper sheets (particularly basis weights) is approaching its limit. In this invention, when an operator performs a simple operation of, e.g., selecting the type of paper sheet on an oper... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6304342 | Image-processing apparatus equipped with recording-material manual-feeding mechanism and control method for the apparatus An image-processing apparatus and a control method for this apparatus. Image data is received through a communication section and is recorded by a recording section onto a recording material fed from a manual-feeding tray. Recording materials of various s... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6215970 | Duplex unit with recess for retracting manual sheet feeding tray and image forming apparatus using the same duplex unit A duplex unit includes a case housing a sheet reverse path that connects to a sheet discharging outlet and a sheet refeed inlet provided on a side of a main body case housing an image forming unit and that is configured to reverse the sheet supplied from ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6055410 | Bypass/stack sheet-feeding configuration for miniaturizing electrostatographic apparatus Bypass sheet-feeding section for an electro-statographic image reproducing apparatus employing vertical sheet transport from sheet supply cassettes to the image reproducing section. The bypass sheet-feeding section serves to hold special copying sheets su... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5826156 | Image forming apparatus The size of a paper put in a tray for manual insertion is decided according to detectors provided in the tray. When detection precision of the paper size is not so high to determine paper size, it is instructed to specify a paper size manually. In another... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5347349 | Image forming apparatus having a protective gate member An image forming apparatus is equipped with a manual sheet-feeding device to feed a sheet to an image forming section. The manual sheet-feeding device is mounted on a side of a casing in such an arrangement that a manual sheet-feeding entrance is located ... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5216472 | Printer with paper supplying device A printer with a paper supplying device having a printing section that includes a photosensitive drum for printing on a paper, a manual supplying path for guiding a paper inserted manually, a manual insertion tray for receiving a paper in order to insert ... | 06/01/1993 |
