Abstract: A driving device includes: an internal combustion engine; a first rotating electric machine; a second rotating electric machine; and a transmission. The transmission includes: a first rotating electric machine shaft; a second rotating electric machine shaft which is arranged in parallel to the first rotating electric machine shaft; a first gear provided in the first rotating electric machine shaft; and a second gear provided in the second rotating electric machine shaft. A width in an axial direction of the first rotating electric machine is larger than that of the second rotating electric machine. The number of gears provided in a shaft in which a gear for the first rotating electric machine that meshes with the first gear is arranged is smaller than the number of gears provided in a shaft in which a gear for the second rotating electric machine that meshes with the second gear is arranged.

Abstract: A motor having a rotor connected to an input shaft and a stator fixed by a fixing jig during assembly to a case includes: a stator convex part that extends radially outward from an outer circumference of the stator and positions the stator with respect to the case; and a case convex part that extends radially inward from an inner circumference of the case and is arranged so as to overlap with the stator convex part in a circumferential direction. A relief part is provided between the stator convex part and the case convex part, the relief part being arranged such that the stator convex part can be rotated along the circumferential direction with respect to the case during assembly.

Abstract: A decurling device is provided on a downstream side with respect to a fixing device in a medium transporting direction and straightens a curl formed in a medium transported to the decurling device. The decurling device includes a bending unit extending across the medium transporting direction and having a guiding surface that guides a leading end of the medium, the leading end coming into contact with the guiding surface, the bending unit bending the medium in a decurling direction by using the guiding surface; an urging unit that urges the bending unit toward the medium; and a single or plural rotating members provided on a part of the guiding surface of the bending unit and rotating by coming into contact with the medium that is in contact with the guiding surface.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a generator, a case, a first bearing configured to rotatably support a rotating shaft of the generator on a side of one end portion, and a second bearing configured to rotatably support the rotating shaft on a side of the other end portion. The case includes a first wall portion that forms an accommodation space, and a second wall portion that covers an end portion of the first wall portion. The first bearing is supported by the second wall portion. The rotating shaft includes an input portion on a side of the other end portion of the second bearing, and a transmission portion configured to transmit, to the second bearing, a thrust load of the rotating shaft acting from the other end portion toward the one end portion.

Abstract: A decurling device is provided on a downstream side with respect to a fixing device in a medium transporting direction and straightens a curl formed in a medium transported to the decurling device. The decurling device includes a bending unit extending across the medium transporting direction and having a guiding surface that guides a leading end of the medium, the leading end coming into contact with the guiding surface, the bending unit bending the medium in a decurling direction by using the guiding surface; an urging unit that urges the bending unit toward the medium; and a single or plural rotating members provided on a part of the guiding surface of the bending unit and rotating by coming into contact with the medium that is in contact with the guiding surface.

Abstract: A driving device includes: an internal combustion engine; a first rotating electric machine; a second rotating electric machine; and a transmission. The transmission includes: a first rotating electric machine shaft; a second rotating electric machine shaft which is arranged in parallel to the first rotating electric machine shaft; a first gear provided in the first rotating electric machine shaft; and a second gear provided in the second rotating electric machine shaft. A width in an axial direction of the first rotating electric machine is larger than that of the second rotating electric machine. The number of gears provided in a shaft in which a gear for the first rotating electric machine that meshes with the first gear is arranged is smaller than the number of gears provided in a shaft in which a gear for the second rotating electric machine that meshes with the second gear is arranged.

Abstract: A transport device includes a first rotary part that rotates; a second rotary part that contacts the first rotary part, that forms a pinch region where an object to be transported is pinched between the second rotary part and the first rotary part, and that rotates together with the first rotary part; and a positioning mechanism that positions the second rotary part with respect to the first rotary part. The positioning mechanism includes a swing part that supports one end portion side of the second rotary part, that is supported at one end portion side of the first rotary part, and that is swingable around a rotation center of the first rotary part; and a fixing section that fixes the swing part.

Abstract: A paper transport device includes: a paper transport path that includes plural pairs of transport units provided in a direction intersecting with a direction of transport of paper, and transports paper in a predetermined direction; an opening and closing unit that is opened and closed to expose a part of the paper transport path; and a guide unit that has a guide surface on one side of the paper transport path and is rotatably supported about a rotation shaft between a guide posture for guidance of the paper and an opening posture for opening of the guide surface through rotation from the guide posture, when the opening and closing unit is opened.

Abstract: A transport device includes a first rotary part that rotates; a second rotary part that contacts the first rotary part, that forms a pinch region where an object to be transported is pinched between the second rotary part and the first rotary part, and that rotates together with the first rotary part; and a positioning mechanism that positions the second rotary part with respect to the first rotary part. The positioning mechanism includes a swing part that supports one end portion side of the second rotary part, that is supported at one end portion side of the first rotary part, and that is swingable around a rotation center of the first rotary part; and a fixing section that fixes the swing part.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus body including an image former that forms an image on a recording material; a covering part that is provided in the apparatus body and leaves an inside of the apparatus body open by being opened in an opening direction with respect to the apparatus body; a reversing unit that is housed by the apparatus body and discharges part of the recording material on which the image is formed by the image former externally of the apparatus body, and reverses a transport direction of the recording material; and a guiding unit that is provided adjacent to a downstream side of the covering part in the opening direction, guides the recording material discharged through the apparatus body by the reversing unit, and when the covering part is opened with respect to the apparatus body, the guiding unit moves relatively with respect to the covering part in an opposite direction of the opening direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus body including an image former that forms an image on a recording material; an opening unit that leaves an inside of the apparatus body open by being opened in a predetermined opening direction with respect to the apparatus body; a reversing unit that discharges part of the recording material on which the image is formed by the image former externally of the apparatus body, and reverses a transport direction of the recording material; and a guiding unit that is provided adjacent to a downstream side of the opening unit in the opening direction, guides the recording material discharged through the apparatus body by the reversing unit, and when the opening unit is opened with respect to the apparatus body, moves in an opposite direction to the opening direction relatively with respect to the opening unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first outlet portion that allows sheet to be discharged therethrough toward a side surface of the apparatus, a holding portion that holds sheets that are to be reversed, a second outlet portion that is disposed at an upper portion of the apparatus and that allows sheets to be discharged therethrough toward an upper side of the apparatus, a first switching member that changes a destination of a sheet transported thereto between the holding portion and the first outlet portion, and a second switching member that changes a destination of a sheet transported thereto between the second outlet portion and the holding portion or the first outlet portion to which the first switching member has changed the destination.

Abstract: A drive transmission apparatus includes a drive source; a rotating member that rotates by drive from the drive source; a structure that is attachable to and detachable from a drive transmission apparatus body and at least partly houses a transmission mechanism that transmits the drive from the drive source to the rotating member; a support member that has first and second surfaces, and supports the structure; and a coupling member that is fixed to the support member by a first fixing tool and to the structure by a second fixing tool, and couples the structure with the support member. The coupling member includes a first attachment portion to which the first fixing tool is attached from a side of the first surface of the support member, and a second attachment portion to which the second fixing tool is attached from a side of the second surface of the support member.

Abstract: A drive transmission apparatus includes a drive source; a rotating member that rotates by drive from the drive source; a structure that is attachable to and detachable from a drive transmission apparatus body and at least partly houses a transmission mechanism that transmits the drive from the drive source to the rotating member; a support member that has first and second surfaces, and supports the structure; and a coupling member that is fixed to the support member by a first fixing tool and to the structure by a second fixing tool, and couples the structure with the support member. The coupling member includes a first attachment portion to which the first fixing tool is attached from a side of the first surface of the support member, and a second attachment portion to which the second fixing tool is attached from a side of the second surface of the support member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material, a transport unit that transports the recording material, using a driving member which rotates and plural rotating parts which are aligned in an axial direction of the driving member and are disposed in contact with the driving member so as to rotate by receiving a driving force from the driving member, a support member that is shared by the plural rotating parts and supports the plural rotating parts from a side opposite to a side where the driving member is disposed, and a biasing unit that biases the support member toward the driving member.

Abstract: A lubricating structure of a transmission is capable of supplying a lubricating oil with respect to a clutch promptly and stably. The lubricating structure of the transmission includes a first oil passage 53 which extends in a second input shaft 18 from one end side thereof to a first position, and the lubricating oil is supplied from the one end side, a second oil passage 54 which connects to the first oil passage 53 at the first position and extends in the second input shaft 18 to a second position, a first lubrication hole 55 which distributes the lubricating oil to the second clutch 20 at the first position, and a second lubrication hole 56 which distributes the lubricating oil to a transmission mechanism 40 at the second position.

Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless belt, a fixing rotating body that fixes, in cooperation with the belt, a toner image formed on a recording medium nipped between the fixing rotating body and the belt while rotating in contact with the belt, a support member that supports a load with which the fixing rotating body nips the recording medium with the belt so as to form a nip portion to nip the recording medium between the belt and the fixing rotating body, a driving unit that circulates the belt in a state in which the fixing rotating body is separate from the belt, and a wind-on rotating body on which the belt is wound at a position adjacent to the support member on an upstream side in a direction of transport of the recording medium to the nip portion.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a heater that transports a recording medium while rotating in a first direction and fixes an image formed on the recording medium to the recording medium by heating the image, a reducing member that rotates in a second direction different from the first direction, the reducing member and the heater contacting each other and rotating at different speeds, and the reducing member scratching an outer peripheral surface of the heater, and a moving device that moves the heater with respect to the reducing member in a direction of a rotational axis of the reducing member.

Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless belt, a fixing rotating body that fixes, in cooperation with the belt, a toner image formed on a recording medium nipped between the fixing rotating body and the belt while rotating in contact with the belt, a support member that supports a load with which the fixing rotating body nips the recording medium with the belt so as to form a nip portion to nip the recording medium between the belt and the fixing rotating body, a driving unit that circulates the belt in a state in which the fixing rotating body is separate from the belt, and a wind-on rotating body on which the belt is wound at a position adjacent to the support member on an upstream side in a direction of transport of the recording medium to the nip portion.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a heater that transports a recording medium while rotating in a first direction and fixes an image formed on the recording medium to the recording medium by heating the image, a reducing member that rotates in a second direction different from the first direction, the reducing member and the heater contacting each other and rotating at different speeds, and the reducing member scratching an outer peripheral surface of the heater, and a moving device that moves the heater with respect to the reducing member in a direction of a rotational axis of the reducing member.