Abstract: A sheet storage cassette includes: a case provided with a storage portion; a stacking plate on which a sheet is placed; and a lifting unit that lifts the stacking plate. The lifting unit has: a driving gear that communicates with an output gear of the device main body in a state where the sheet storage cassette is received in the device main body, is rotated by driving force transmitted from the output gear, and is provided with an engaged part; a swing portion that has an engaging part engaged with the engaged part, and lifts the stacking plate by a rotation of the driving gear; and a reverse rotation allowing unit that allows the driving gear to rotate in an opposite direction to a direction of lifting the stacking plate when inserting the sheet storage cassette into the device main body.

Abstract: An image forming device includes an image forming section, a plurality of recording-medium supply units, a transportation guide forming a plurality of transportation paths, a full-width cleaning member, a plurality of recording-medium separating members, and at least one partial cleaning member provided for each recording-medium separating member. The plurality of transportation paths joins together to provide a single main transportation path reaching the image forming section. The full-width cleaning member is disposed in the single main transportation path. The full-width cleaning member has a full-width cleaning portion wider than a recording medium. Each partial cleaning member has a partial cleaning portion wider than is the corresponding recording-medium separating member.

Abstract: A compressor having an internally mounted inverter and having improved safety at low cost is provided. The compressor has a motor; a compressor mechanism driven by the motor; a first housing section having an opening and within which the motor is housed; a second housing section which is mounted on the first housing section and which closes the opening; a fixing member which fixes the second housing section to the first housing section; a controller which is provided on the first housing section and which controls the operation of the motor; a power supply section which supplies power to the controller; a protective cover which covers the controller; and a power source control apparatus which stops the supply of power to the controller by the power supply section or carries out a prescribed safety measure operation when the protective cover is removed from the controller.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a motor includes a plurality of switching elements configured to switch energizing phases of the motor; and a driving unit configured to drive at least one of the switching elements. The driving unit drives a predetermined switching element from among the switching elements so as to position the rotor to a predetermined position. When starting the motor, the driving unit first drives the predetermined switching element.

Abstract: A shifting mechanism shifts at least one of a sheet accommodating portion and feeding portion, thereby changing a position of the feeding portion relative to sheets. A pressure changing mechanism changes pressure between first and second separating portions. A contact force controlling portion controls the shifting mechanism to provide a first contact force when the feeding portion starts a feeding operation, and controls the shifting mechanism, at a first timing, to reduce the contact force from the first contact force to a second contact force. A pressure controlling portion controls the pressure changing mechanism to provide a first pressure between the first and second separating portions when the feeding portion starts the feeding operation, and controls the pressure changing mechanism, at a second timing, to reduce the pressure from the first pressure to a second pressure while nipping the separated sheet between the first and second separating portions.

Abstract: A sheet supply device including: a device main body; a storage cassette having a stacking portion on which a sheet is loaded; a lifting mechanism that lifts up the stacking portion by using driving power supplied from a driving source; a delivery unit that is disposed above the stacking portion and performs a delivering operation in a contact state with the sheet on the stacking portion lifted up by the lifting mechanism, thereby delivering the sheet to a downstream side in a conveying direction; a control unit that controls the delivering operation of the delivery unit; and a detecting unit that detects whether the sheet is loaded on the stacking portion at a predetermine detecting position above the stacking portion; wherein, when the detecting unit detects that the sheet is in existence, the control unit starts the delivering operation of the delivery unit.

Abstract: A delay element generates a delayed clock signal which transitions with a delay from a rising (or falling) of a reference clock signal by a delay amount determined based on an output of a loop filter. A signal generation circuit generates two signals which complementarily change according to rising and falling of the reference clock signal and a transition of the delayed clock signal. A charge pump circuit performs on the loop filter, according to these two signals, a push (or pull) operation during an interval extending from a rising (or falling) of the reference clock signal to the transition of the delayed clock signal and a pull (or push) operation during an interval extending from the transition of the delayed clock signal to a falling (or rising) of the reference clock signal.

Abstract: When a paper feed cassette is again mounted, a pressing portion of a pressing member is brought into contact from the front side on a second surface of an extending portion of a contacting member, and the contacting member is pressed by the pressing member to be displaced from the retract position to the contact position. At this time, the pressing portion of the contacting member presses a pressed portion of a disc member to rotate a third cam itself in the counterclockwise direction in the drawing. Accordingly, the lift lever locked by the third cam is released, and an end portion of an arm member is allowed to move upward.

Abstract: A sheet-feeding cassette includes: a first tray having a first wall section and a sheet-urging plate; and a second tray having a second wall section, the second tray being coupled to the first tray in a movable manner whereby an interval between the first wall section and the second wall section is changeable. A wall surface of the second wall section, which comes into contact with the sheet, comes to a position upstream of an upstream end portion of the first tray main body. A downstream end portion of the second tray in the sheet-feeding direction comes to a position downstream of an upstream end portion of the sheet-urging plate in the sheet-feeding direction.

Abstract: A sheet-feeding cassette includes: a stacking member including first engaging sections and second engaging sections provided at intervals which are smaller than those of the first engaging sections; and a regulatory member regulating the position of sheets, the regulatory member including an operation section that is operated at the time of movement of the regulatory member and is capable of being displaced, a first engaged section that is capable of engaging with the first engaging sections and is elastically deformable, and a second engaged section that is capable of engaging with the second engaging sections. The second engaged section is displaced in a direction so as to be disengaged from the second engaging sections in accordance with displacement of the operation section, and the first engaged section is elastically deformed as a result of being interlocked with the second engaged section according to displacement of the operation section.

Abstract: A sheet storage cassette includes: a case provided with a storage portion; a stacking plate on which a sheet is placed; and a lifting unit that lifts the stacking plate. The lifting unit has: a driving gear that communicates with an output gear of the device main body in a state where the sheet storage cassette is received in the device main body, is rotated by driving force transmitted from the output gear, and is provided with an engaged part; a swing portion that has an engaging part engaged with the engaged part, and lifts the stacking plate by a rotation of the driving gear; and a reverse rotation allowing unit that allows the driving gear to rotate in an opposite direction to a direction of lifting the stacking plate when inserting the sheet storage cassette into the device main body.

Abstract: A recording medium feeding device includes: a delivery roller provided so as to abut on a surface of recording media and for delivering the recording media to a downstream side in a direction of conveyance of the recording media in accordance with the rotation of the delivery roller; a separation member provided on the downstream side with respect of the delivery roller; and a feed roller provided opposite to the separation member to sandwich the recording media delivered by the delivery roller with the separation member, the feed roller rotating for separating and conveying the recording media one by one, wherein a diameter of the feed roller is larger than a diameter of the delivery roller.

Abstract: A coil spring 103 is wound around a rotational shaft 15 with its one end portion 103a being inserted into an engagement groove 100a formed in a side wall of a direct-coupled gear 100 and with its other end portion 103b being inserted in an engagement groove 93a provided in a front wall 93 of a paper cassette 6. The elastic force generated by the coil spring 103 functions as a pressing force for restraining the torque of the rotational shaft 15 that is generated by the driving force from a DC motor 70. The amount of the elastic force increases as the height of a paper pressing plate 8 increases. Accordingly, a variation in the height of the topmost sheet 3, which will possibly occur due to changes in the amount of recording medium 3 placed on a mounting plate 8, can be restrained.

Abstract: An image forming device includes an image forming section, a plurality of recording-medium supply units, a transportation guide forming a plurality of transportation paths, a full-width cleaning member, a plurality of recording-medium separating members, and at least one partial cleaning member provided for each recording-medium separating member. The plurality of transportation paths joins together to provide a single main transportation path reaching the image forming section. The full-width cleaning member is disposed in the single main transportation path. The full-width cleaning member has a full-width cleaning portion wider than a recording medium. Each partial cleaning member has a partial cleaning portion wider than is the corresponding recording-medium separating member.

Abstract: A self-propelled cleaning device having a cylindrical side cover has a suction body capable of moving transversely to the forward direction. The side cover is held by a base via a suspension. When cleaning corners of a room, the suction body moves by a wall and as the suction body moves to a corner, the movement amount of the suction body is changed. When an obstacle touches the cleaning device, the side cover moves, and the article touches a side cover switch, and the direction of the article is detected.

Abstract: An image forming device capable of sufficiently removing paper dusts on a sheet thereby providing high quality image. A sheet transport path 38 is defined between a sheet supply section 7 provided with a separation pad 13 and a sheet supply roller 12 and an image forming section 5. Along the sheet supply section 7, at least a first paper dust removing roller 9b having a width slightly greater than the width of the separation pad 13 and a second paper dust removing roller 10b having a width slightly greater than the sheet width are disposed. Paper dusts generated upon friction against the separation pad 13 are removed by the first paper dust removing roller 9b, and paper dusts spreading over entire surface of the sheet are removed by the second paper dust removing roller 10b.

Abstract: The invention provides an electromagnetic clutch that effectively reduces the shock noise produced during the coupling of an armature plate and a drive rotor, and furthermore, has a laminated body that can be provided at a low cost as an essential constituent element. The armature plate 34 of the electromagnetic clutch is a laminated body that comprises a plurality of thin metal plates 41, a plurality of fastening tongues 45 project from the inner diameter side of the friction plate 42 on the friction surface side, and these fastening tongues 45 are bent and surround the other laminated thin metal plates 41 so as to fasten them.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an electromagnetic clutch capable of decreasing the impact noise generated when the armature plate and the driving rotor are coupled. The present invention further aims to provide a compressor equipped with this electromagnetic clutch. An electromagnetic clutch in the present invention comprises a driving rotor including a coil, and an armature having an armature plate that is disposed facing this driving rotor and having the same axis of rotational thereas, and when a voltage is applied to excite coil, the end face of driving rotor and the armature plate are attached together by coil's magnetic force, thereby coupling driving rotor and armature. Armature plate comprises a plurality of metal thin plates (plate members) laminated together, and at least a part of the plate members being connected each other.

Abstract: An image forming device capable of sufficiently removing paper dusts on a sheet thereby providing high quality image. A sheet transport path 38 is defined between a sheet supply section 7 provided with a separation pad 13 and a sheet supply roller 12 and an image forming section 5. Along the sheet supply section 7, at least a first paper dust removing roller 9b having a width slightly greater than the width of the separation pad 13 and a second paper dust removing roller 10b having a width slightly greater than the sheet width are disposed. Paper dusts generated upon friction against the separation pad 13 are removed by the first paper dust removing roller 9b, and paper dusts spreading over entire surface of the sheet are removed by the second paper dust removing roller 10b.

Abstract: A method of imparting water resistance to a molded polysaccharide having poor water resistance because of its high hydrophilicity, which comprises bonding a prolamin such as zein to the surface of the molded polysaccharide.