Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a speaker that is stored inside a housing and includes an attachment guide to which the speaker is attached on a housing front surface. The attachment guide has at least one angle deciding portion which inclines a front surface of the speaker relative to the housing front surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a replacement unit (developing unit) that is provided to be freely inserted into and extracted from an apparatus body, and the replacement unit is provided with a separation duct wall that constitutes a collection path through which powder scattering in the apparatus body is collected.

Abstract: A waste toner collecting device includes a waste toner container having an opening at an upper portion, and a shutter mechanism that opens or closes the opening. The shutter mechanism includes a receiving portion including an insertion port through which the waste toner discharging unit is inserted, the receiving portion having an inner space connected with an inner space of the waste toner container through the opening, a shutter member disposed in the receiving portion to be movable between an open position and a closing position, and an urging member that urges the shutter member to the closing position. The shutter member includes a ridge on an upper portion of an outer circumferential surface. The ridge has a protrusion height corresponding to a gap between the outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface of the receiving portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a duct through which air taken in from outside a housing is sent into the housing, a blower fan provided at an upstream end of the duct, a toner bottle provided facing a wall surface of the duct, and a fixing section provided on a downstream side of the toner bottle. A component-facing section facing the toner bottle is formed to be smaller in cross-sectional area than a fan placement section. Therefore, by absorbing heat of air around the toner bottle via a wall of the component-facing section, the component-facing section prevents the toner bottle from becoming hot.

Abstract: Provided is a spouted pouch, said pouch being suitable for achieving a high gas-barrier property. This pouch X is provided with a pouch main body 10 and a spout 20. The pouch main body 10 is configured from a film having a sealant layer on an inner surface thereof. The spout 20 is an integrally molded resin body and contains each of an olefin-based resin and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer and is attached to the pouch main body by thermal welding with the sealant layer. The sealant layer is configured from an olefin-based resin film having a heat seal strength determined by the following peel test of 10 N/15 mm or less. The peel test: two olefin-based films each lined with a fracture prevention film are partially thermal-welded by an action of a compression pressure of 0.2 MPa for 1 second at 105° C., and thereafter the thermally welded section is subjected to a peel test under the condition of a tension rate of 300 mm/min at 23±2° C.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a replacement unit (developing unit) that is provided to be freely inserted into and extracted from an apparatus body, and the replacement unit is provided with a separation duct wall that constitutes a collection path through which powder scattering in the apparatus body is collected.

Abstract: A waste toner collecting device includes a waste toner container having an opening at an upper portion, and a shutter mechanism that opens or closes the opening. The shutter mechanism includes a receiving portion including an insertion port through which the waste toner discharging unit is inserted, the receiving portion having an inner space connected with an inner space of the waste toner container through the opening, a shutter member disposed in the receiving portion to be movable between an open position and a closing position, and an urging member that urges the shutter member to the closing position. The shutter member includes a ridge on an upper portion of an outer circumferential surface. The ridge has a protrusion height corresponding to a gap between the outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface of the receiving portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a duct through which air taken in from outside a housing is sent into the housing, a blower fan provided at an upstream end of the duct, a toner bottle provided facing a wall surface of the duct, and a fixing section provided on a downstream side of the toner bottle. A component-facing section facing the toner bottle is formed to be smaller in cross-sectional area than a fan placement section. Therefore, by absorbing heat of air around the toner bottle via a wall of the component-facing section, the component-facing section prevents the toner bottle from becoming hot.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a speaker that is stored inside a housing and includes an attachment guide to which the speaker is attached on a housing front surface. The attachment guide has at least one angle deciding portion which inclines a front surface of the speaker relative to the housing front surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body that performs an image forming process, and a detection device provided in the apparatus main body and detects a user who approaches the apparatus main body. The detection device has a detection range of which a bottom line is inclined obliquely upward when viewed from a horizontal direction.

Abstract: A pouch container and a pouch container packaging prevents oblique seals from turning back, thereby reducing risk of leakage from the pouch container. The pouch container packaging includes a pair of outer films disposed on front and back sides with a spout sandwiched at the top. Each outer film has side edges, a bottom and oblique edges lying between the side edges and the bottom edge. Pair of gusset films is disposed in a folded state between outer films and each has side and oblique edges. Side seals are provided by joining side edges of the outer films to the side edges of the gusset films. A bottom seal is provided by joining outer films along their bottom edges. Oblique seals are provided by joining oblique edges of outer films to oblique edges of gusset films. At least a portion of an inner edge of each oblique seal is curved.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus provided with a resin frame made of a resin, an image forming unit and a fixing unit includes a duct for allowing air to flow between the image forming unit and the fixing unit. The resin frame includes a main frame to which the image forming unit is attached, and a fixing unit attachment frame that is separate from the main frame and to which the fixing unit is attached, and the fixing unit attachment frame has a duct portion that constitutes at least one part of the duct.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus provided with a resin frame made of a resin, an image forming unit and a fixing unit includes a duct for allowing air to flow between the image forming unit and the fixing unit. The resin frame includes a main frame to which the image forming unit is attached, and a fixing unit attachment frame that is separate from the main frame and to which the fixing unit is attached, and the fixing unit attachment frame has a duct portion that constitutes at least one part of the duct.

Abstract: Disclosed is a label 1 for battery packaging, which includes a heat shrinkable film 2, and a printed layer 3 and an adhesive layer 4 each arranged on or above the heat shrinkable film 2. The adhesive layer 4 includes an emulsive heat-sensitive adhesive containing an ethylene polymer and 10 to 30 percent by weight of a tackifier based on the total solid content. The ethylene copolymer has an ethylene content of 66 to 84 percent by weight and a melting point of 60° C. to 90° C. The heat shrinkable film 2 is preferably a film having a percentage of heat shrinkage in a main stretching direction of 10% or more after being immersed in a glycerol bath at 100° C. for five seconds. The label 1 for battery packaging excels in low-temperature tack and blocking resistance and is less likely to deteriorate with time.