Abstract: A motor and a method for manufacturing thereof use a rotor having permanent magnets and stators. The highest revolving speed of a motor is adjusted by using end plates of different thickness. The end plates are made of a magnetic material and disposed at the end faces of the rotor. The end plates made of a magnetic material provide part of the magnetic flux generated from the permanent magnets with short circuits within the inside of the rotor. The magnetic flux that links with the coil can be adjusted by using end plates of different thickness. Therefore, the highest revolving speed of a motor can be finely adjusted with ease.

Abstract: A film loader for the image forming apparatus has a film formed endlessly and a film frame for holding the film, wherein a guide member for attaching or detaching the film with respect to the film loading portion of the film frame is formed by a packaging member for use in transporting and storing the film.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an endless belt which serves as an image carrier is characterized by reduced image misregistration and reduced machining cost. When the endless belt feed path is divided into a path from a drive roller to a tension roller, and a path from the tension roller to the drive roller, the eccentricity of an idle roller located on the path on the side including a latent image forming point is set to a value smaller than that of an idle roller located on the path not including the image forming point.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising an endless belt as an image carrier characterized by reduced image misregistration and reduced machining cost. When the above stated endless belt feed path is divided into a path from a drive roller to a tension roller, and a path from the tension roller to the drive roller, the eccentricity of the idle roller located on the path on the side including a latent image forming point is set to a value smaller than that of the idle roller located on the path not including the image forming point.

Abstract: In order to realize thinned armatures, a winder which winds coils at a high density while restricting coil ends within a restricted space is provided. An armature coil winder for winding coils in an armature core assembly having a plurality of slots in an outer circumference thereof comprising a winding former equipped with a fixed former which guides a coil into two slots and a movable former which restricts a position of a coil end between the slots by moving in the fixed former along both end surfaces of an armature core toward a center thereof, a former slider which shifts the movable former to a specified position, and coil shaping mechanism which is disposed at location other than that of the former slider and equipped with coil shaping blades functioning to shape the coil in the slots, thereby making it possible to wind coils at a high density by effectively utilizing winding spaces.

Abstract: In order to realize thinned armatures, a winder which winds coils at a high density while restricting coil ends within a restricted space is provided. An armature coil winder for winding coils in an armature core assembly having a plurality of slots in an outer circumference thereof comprising a winding former equipped with a fixed former which guides a coil into two slots and a movable former which restricts a position of a coil end between the slots by moving in the fixed former along both end surfaces of an armature core toward a center thereof, a former slider which shifts the movable former to a specified position, and coil shaping mechanism which is disposed at location other than that of the former slider and equipped with coil shaping blades functioning to shape the coil in the slots, thereby making it possible to wind coils at a high density by effectively utilizing winding spaces.

Abstract: In order to realize thinned armatures, a winder which winds coils at a high density while restricting coil ends within a restricted space is provided. An armature coil winder for winding coils in an armature core assembly having a plurality of slots in an outer circumference thereof comprising a winding former equipped with a fixed former which guides a coil into two slots and a movable former which restricts a position of a coil end between the slots by moving in the fixed former along both end surfaces of an armature core toward a center thereof, a former slider which shifts the movable former to a specified position, and coil shaping mechanism which is disposed at location other than that of the former slider and equipped with coil shaping blades functioning to shape the coil in the slots, thereby making it possible to wind coils at a high density by effectively utilizing winding spaces.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is an apparatus for decompressing compressed data which can decompress compressed data at a high speed as compared with the prior art decompressing apparatus. The apparatus comprises recording means, reading means, decompressing means, at least one frame memory, picture designating means, and control means. The recording means is designed to record the compressed data to be decompressed by the decompressing means. The recording means includes at least one random access memory for recording the compressed data in order to enable the random access to read each GOP in any order. The reading means is adapted to read the compressed data to be decompressed by the decompressing means from the recording means. The decompressing means is operated to decompress the compressed data read from the recording means by the reading means. At least one frame memory is operated to store the decompressed data produced by the decompressing means.

Abstract: A compressively coded data reproduction apparatus and method for separating compressively coded video, audio, and additional data, data from a stream, outputting these data performing head detection on video and audio frames; decoding the video frames to output video data; decoding the audio frames to output audio data; judging whether a detected head frame is a video frame or an audio frame corresponding to a designated entry point start time information being among the additional data of the detected frame, outputting a decoding request when the detected frame is judged as a video and/or audio frame corresponding to the start time, and outputting an output request at the point of time when both of the video frame and the audio frame have been decoded. The system can output a video frame and an audio frame at the same time, within a prediction of video frame unit or audio frame unit, when starting reproduction of compressively coded data from an entry point.

Abstract: A heating belt is laid along a conveying path for a recording medium moved after development, a halogen lamp is incorporated in a belt drive roller for driving the heating belt so as to heat the heating belt by heat generated by the halogen lamp, and accordingly, the heating belt whose temperature is controlled at a predetermined temperature heats the recording sheet. With this arrangement, the conveying speed of the recording sheet and the moving speed of the heating belt are set to be equal to each other. Alternatively, the heating belt may itself generate heat.

Abstract: In a method to manufacture a stator by coupling a plurality of core segments as so to compose a serial body of core segments and rounding the serial body into an annular body, a stator which method can secure an optimum length of a connected wire by preventing the connecting wire from being too long or too short between the core segments at a stage to round the serial body of core segments into the annular body and method of manufacturing thereof are provided. A member to form a motor stator is composed of a plurality of core segments which are movably coupled, a plurality of insulators which cover the core segments and have head portions having spaces allowing a connecting wire to pass therethrough, and the coil wire which is wound around the core segments to form a coil and serves as a connecting wire passing through the head portions, the member being capable of securing an optimum length of the connecting wire.

Abstract: A toner image heating device for heating a recording material holding a toner image includes: a first heating roller having a plurality of heaters which are different in heat generating region from one another; and a second heating roller having a plurality of heaters which are different in heat generating region from one another. A heat generating region dividing position between said heaters adjacent to each other in said second heating roller is shifted from a heat generating region dividing position between said heaters adjacent to each other in said first heating roller.

Abstract: An electrophotographic apparatus is provided in which toner stick hardly occurs by improving the cooling effect on the strip of paper sheets after they are heat-fixed. This electrophotographic apparatus includes a fixing unit for heating toner transferred on a continuous strip of paper sheets and fixing the toner, and a folding unit for supplying a folding force to the continuous strip of paper sheets. A conveyer unit is arranged in the back stage of the electrophotographic apparatus for transferring the continuous strip of paper sheets, received from folding unit, in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: An electrophotographic apparatus for transferring a toner image formed on a photosensitive drum onto a sheet of paper and melt-fixing the toner image on the sheet of paper, having a paper detector at a predetermined position in a transporting path of the sheet of paper, the paper detector being composed of a light projector, a reflecting member for reflecting a primary light beam emitted from the light projector and a light receiver for sensing a secondary light beam reflected by the reflecting member, to prevent erroneous detections the light receiver is placed at a position relatively displaced with respect to a position where the light projector is located so that the primary light beam and the secondary light beam have tilting components to both a plane parallel to a transporting plane of the sheet of paper and a plane vertical to the transporting plane.