Abstract: A heatsink plate is to be fixed to a substrate with sufficient strength, so as to prevent the heatsink plate from being stripped off, to thereby secure reliability on the performance of the semiconductor chip. The heatsink plate has both the upper and lower surfaces of the fixing section sandwiched by an adhesive resin. Such structure provides an increased adhesion area between the heatsink plate and the upper surface of the substrate, thereby securing greater fixing strength compared with the conventional structure in which simply the lower surface of the heatsink plate and the upper surface of the substrate are adhered to each other. Accordingly, the heatsink plate can be fixed to the upper surface of substrate with greater strength.

Abstract: A heatsink plate is to be fixed to a substrate with sufficient strength, so as to prevent the heatsink plate from being stripped off, to thereby secure reliability on the performance of the semiconductor chip. The heatsink plate has both the upper and lower surfaces of the fixing section sandwiched by an adhesive resin. Such structure provides an increased adhesion area between the heatsink plate and the upper surface of the substrate, thereby securing greater fixing strength compared with the conventional structure in which simply the lower surface of the heatsink plate and the upper surface of the substrate are adhered to each other. Accordingly, the heatsink plate can be fixed to the upper surface of substrate with greater strength.

Abstract: In a developer-storing container of the present invention, an agitation blade used in a toner-storing section and an agitation blade used in a waste-toner-storing section are coupled by a rotor. The rotor is interdigitated to a bearing mounted on a partition wall. The partition wall is made to be a fixed wall so that precision of interdigitation of the agitation blade of the toner-storing section, the rotor, and the agitation blade of the waste-toner-storing section is improved. Consequently, a developer-storing container that is easy to assemble and in which precision of interdigitation is high is realized.

Abstract: A packing case for an image forming apparatus that includes: a first packing member 5 for packing an image forming apparatus main body 1 including a reading section 11 having a scanner unit, an image forming section 14 having an image forming unit 12, and a sheet feed unit 13 for feeding a sheet to the image forming unit 12, and a sheet storage space 16, formed to be open to outside between the reading section 11 and the image forming section 14, for storing a sheet transported from the image forming unit 12; and a second packing member 4 for packing a toner cartridge 2 and capable of being inserted into and removed from the image forming apparatus main body 1, in which the second packing member 4 is inserted and fixed in the sheet storage space 16.

Abstract: A packing case for an image forming apparatus that includes: a first packing member 5 for packing an image forming apparatus main body 1 including a reading section 11 having a scanner unit, an image forming section 14 having an image forming unit 12, and a sheet feed unit 13 for feeding a sheet to the image forming unit 12, and a sheet storage space 16, formed to be open to outside between the reading section 11 and the image forming section 14, for storing a sheet transported from the image forming unit 12; and a second packing member 4 for packing a toner cartridge 2 and capable of being inserted into and removed from the image forming apparatus main body 1, in which the second packing member 4 is inserted and fixed in the sheet storage space 16.

Abstract: A heatsink plate is to be fixed to a substrate with sufficient strength, so as to prevent the heatsink plate from being stripped off, to thereby secure reliability on the performance of the semiconductor chip. The heatsink plate has both the upper and lower surfaces of the fixing section sandwiched by an adhesive resin. Such structure provides an increased adhesion area between the heatsink plate and the upper surface of the substrate, thereby securing greater fixing strength compared with the conventional structure in which simply the lower surface of the heatsink plate and the upper surface of the substrate are adhered to each other. Accordingly, the heatsink plate can be fixed to the upper surface of substrate with greater strength.

Abstract: A packing case for an image forming apparatus that includes: a first packing member 5 for packing an image forming apparatus main body 1 including a reading section 11 having a scanner unit, an image forming section 14 having an image forming unit 12, and a sheet feed unit 13 for feeding a sheet to the image forming unit 12, and a sheet storage space 16, formed to be open to outside between the reading section 11 and the image forming section 14, for storing a sheet transported from the image forming unit 12; and a second packing member 4 for packing a toner cartridge 2 capable of being inserted into and removed from the image forming apparatus main body 1, in which the second packing member 4 is inserted and fixed in the sheet storage space 16.

Abstract: In a developer-storing container of the present invention, an agitation blade used in a toner-storing section and an agitation blade used in a waste-toner-storing section are coupled by a rotor. The rotor is interdigitated to a bearing mounted on a partition wall. The partition wall is made to be a fixed wall so that precision of interdigitation of the agitation blade of the toner-storing section, the rotor, and the agitation blade of the waste-toner-storing section is improved. Consequently, a developer-storing container that is easy to assemble and in which precision of interdigitation is high is realized.

Abstract: An image apparatus includes a cartridge with two separate accommodating portions. The first accommodating portion for accommodating unused developer and is formed in a housing. A second accommodating portion for accommodating transfer residual developer is arranged adjacent to the first accommodating portion. A conveying member extending over the first and second accommodating portions, when an amount of transfer residual developer to be stored in the second accommodating portion exceeds a predetermined level, conveys the transfer residual developer from the second accommodating portion to the first accommodating portion. Each one of the accommodating portions includes an agitator.

Abstract: A packing case for an image forming apparatus, comprising: a first packing member 5 for packing an image forming apparatus main body 1 including a reading section 11 having a scanner unit for reading a document image, an image forming section 14 having an image forming unit 12 for forming an image according to image data and a sheet feed unit 13 for feeding a sheet to the image forming unit 12, and a sheet storage space 16, formed to be open to outside between the reading section 11 and the image forming section 14, for storing a sheet transported from the image forming unit 12; and a second packing member 4 for packing a toner cartridge 2 containing toner to be supplied to the image forming unit 12 and capable of being inserted into and removed from the image forming apparatus main body 1, in which the second packing member 4 is inserted and fixed in the sheet storage space 16. This packing case enables a decrease in the overall size of the packing case and a reduction in the cost of the packing case.

Abstract: A process cartridge includes a toner unit including a toner containing space and a toner supply space. A development unit including rollers. There is a holding frame having a fixture section for the development unit and an accepting section for the toner unit. The process cartridge is constructed arrangement in which the toner is fixed in a predetermined position in the accepting section of the holding frame or which the toner unit is detachably installed in a predetermined position in the accepting section of the holding frame.

Abstract: A toner cartridge includes: a toner storage chamber; a toner collecting chamber; a partitioning wall for separating these chambers; a cylindrical return pipe penetrating through the partitioning wall with a conveyer screw arranged therein and is configured so that when the amount of untransferred toner collected into the toner collecting chamber exceeds the height of the return pipe, the untransferred toner is conveyed by the rotation of the conveyer screw to be returned into the toner storage chamber.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to make it possible to convey developer from a transfer residual developer accommodating portion to an unused developer accommodating portion without the transfer residual developer accommodating portion being increased in size more than necessary. A first accommodating portion for accommodating unused developer is formed in a housing. A second accommodating portion for accommodating transfer residual developer is arranged adjacent to the first accommodating portion. A conveying member extending over the first and second accommodating portions, when an amount of transfer residual developer to be stored in the second accommodating portion exceeds a predetermined level, conveys the transfer residual developer from the second accommodating portion to the first accommodating portion.

Abstract: The length of a conveying sheet is set to be greater than the rotational radius of an agitating element so that the distal end of the conveying sheet will slide over the inner wall of the toner container. A slider element having a low frictional resistance is attached at the distal end of the conveying sheet. The slider element preferably has a low coefficient of dynamic friction and is preferably made of a soft resilient material having a thickness smaller than the conveying sheet. Cutouts or openings may be preferably formed at the distal part. A multiple number of ribs are attached to the wall surface of the toner container at the highest position at which the wall and the top plate meet. The ribs are arranged apart from each other in the direction parallel to the agitating shaft of the agitating element. Each rib is a plate-like element projected inward from the wall surface in the toner container with its width put in the direction of the spacing.

Abstract: A toner cartridge includes: a toner storage chamber; a toner collecting chamber; a partitioning wall for separating these chambers; a cylindrical return pipe penetrating through the partitioning wall with a conveyer screw arranged therein and is configured so that when the amount of untransferred toner collected into the toner collecting chamber exceeds the height of the return pipe, the untransferred toner is conveyed by the rotation of the conveyer screw to be returned into the toner storage chamber.

Abstract: A process cartridge of the present invention includes a toner unit including a toner containing space and a toner supply section; a development unit including a developing device; and a holding frame having a fixture section for the development unit and an accepting section for the toner unit. Moreover, the process cartridge of the present invention is constructed selectively in a first arrangement in which the toner unit is fixed in a predetermined position in the accepting section of the holding frame or in a second arrangement in which the toner unit is detachably installed in the predetermined position.

Abstract: To solve problems that the amount of reuse toner increases with time recovery of reuse toner is efficiently achieved while forming an image of high quality. In a toner replenishing apparatus, toner recovered by a cleaning unit is conveyed via conveying device and contained in a recovery toner container. When an amount of the recovery toner exceeds a predetermined capacity of the recovery toner container, the recovery toner flows into a fresh toner container over an upper edge of a partition wall. Fresh toner and recovery toner are replenished to a developing unit via a fresh toner replenishing roller and a recovery toner replenishing roller, respectively, and the ratio between fresh toner and recovery toner is selected so that the fresh toner occupies a larger part than the recovery toner. This ratio is controlled on the basis of the cumulative rotation time of a photoconductor drum counted by a counting device.