Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet storage unit, a sheet feeding unit, a conveyance path for conveying a sheet to the image forming unit, a plurality of sheet detection sensors disposed along the conveyance path, a determination unit for determining whether predetermined time elapses from a detection of a front end of the sheet until a detection of a rear end of the sheet and a discharge unit. When the determination unit determines that the predetermined time has elapsed based on the detection by the sheet detection sensor disposed in the furthest upstream position among the plurality of sheet detection sensors, the sheet is discharged from the discharge unit, and when the determination unit determines that the predetermined time has elapsed based on the detection by the sheet detection sensors other than that disposed in the furthest upstream position, the sheet is stopped.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a sheet accommodating unit supported by an apparatus main body in an insertable and withdrawable manner in a direction orthogonal to a feeding direction of the sheets, a leading edge regulating unit provided fixedly to the sheet accommodating unit, a trailing edge regulating unit provided in the sheet accommodating unit, a side edge regulating unit provided in the sheet accommodating unit, and an insertion position limiting unit configured to contact a frame on a rear of the apparatus main body in an inserting direction of the sheet accommodating unit to limit an insertion position of the sheet accommodating unit, wherein the insertion position limiting unit is arranged on a rear of the sheet accommodating unit and on an upstream of a position of center of gravity of the sheet accommodating unit along a sheet feeding direction.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an image reading apparatus reading image information of an original while moving the original on an original base plate comprising: a transport rotary member provided opposite the original base plate to transport the original; a supporting member that supports the transport rotary member to be rotatable; and a gap forming section provided in the supporting member to form a gap between the transport rotary member and the original base plate, wherein the transport rotary member and the supporting member each have a high reflectance surface condition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus and an image forming apparatus having the same, in which a jammed sheet can be easily viewed and easily removed. A sheet conveying apparatus of the present invention comprises a fixation guide portion fixed on an apparatus body; a first guide portion disposed to face the fixation guide portion; a second guide portion disposed to face the fixation guide portion, wherein the first guide portion and the second guide portion are arranged in a line along a sheet conveying direction and each of the first guide portion and the second guide portion is independently movable; a sheet conveying path formed by the fixation guide, the first guide portion and the second guide portion, and a movement mechanism that moves the second guide portion away from the fixation guide portion, when the first guide portion is moved to open the sheet conveying path.

Abstract: The representative configuration of an image reading unit according to the present invention and an image forming apparatus comprising the same is an image reading unit comprising a document feeding unit, a lamp and a mirror for reading out the image on a document, a flow reading platen provided between the document feeding unit, and the lamp and the mirror for guiding the document while sliding the same against the surface, and an aluminum sheet for grounding the flow reading platen, wherein the aluminum sheet is conductive with the flow reading platen on the document feeding direction upstream side with respect to the document reading position for reading the image in the substantially entire document width by the lamp and the mirror.

Abstract: A charge control circuit equipped with a function of controlling a charging current to be supplied to a secondary battery, comprises: a detecting unit for monitoring a temperature; and a charge control unit for controlling so as to break the charging current when the monitored temperature rises to a temperature equal to or more than a predetermined set temperature, decrease the charging current as the monitored temperature becomes higher when the monitored temperature is in a predetermined temperature range lower than the set temperature, flow the charging current having a predetermined current value in a state where the monitored temperature is lower than a lower limit temperature of the temperature range, or flow the charging current having a current value smaller than the current value when the monitored temperature is within a range of from an upper limit temperature of the temperature range to the set temperature.

Abstract: An AC adapter includes an AC/DC converter device for transforming an alternating-current power to a direct-current power, a power supply line that supplies the direct-current power converted by the AC/DC converter device to an electronic apparatus, and a memory for storing an AC adapter ID that identifies the AC adapter.

Abstract: An image input device is disclosed, including: a lens array in which a plurality of lenses are arrayed; a shielding member configured to prevent a crosstalk on an image surface of light rays passing each of lenses of the lens array; a flat board member configured to regulate a position of a living body in a lens optical axis direction of the lens array when contacting the living body; an image pickup part configured to include an image surface and pick up a compound eye image, which is a set of reduced images of an object inside the living body which position is regulated by the flat board member, the reduced images approximately formed on the image surface by the plurality of lenses of the lens array; and a process part configured to re-compose a single image from the compound eye image picked up by the image pickup part. The image input device inputs the single image re-composed by the process part as an object image.

Abstract: Disclosed a switching power supply apparatus which includes a voltage converting transformer including an auxiliary winding on a primary side and a switching control circuit, wherein the switching control circuit includes a detection circuit to detect a falling edge of a terminal voltage of the auxiliary winding, and controls a switching transistor connected to a primary winding of the transformer based on the terminal voltage of the auxiliary winding at the time immediately before current flowing through a secondary rectifier diode of the switching power supply apparatus becomes zero, which terminal voltage is obtained based on a detection timing of the detection circuit.

Abstract: An image input apparatus that inputs an image of an object residing within a living body is disclosed. The image input apparatus includes a light source that irradiates near infrared light on the living body, a lens array arranged at a position facing the living body and including plural lenses each having a face with zero or negative power arranged at a side facing the living body and a face with positive power arranged at a side facing an image surface, an imaging unit arranged at the image surface side of the lens array that forms a compound-eye image corresponding to a collection of ommatidium images formed by the lenses of the lens array, and a reconstruction unit that reconstructs a single image from the compound-eye image using a parallax between the ommatidium images. The reconstructed single image is input as the image of the object.

Abstract: An image forming member has a first sheet conveying member arranged at upstream side of a sheet conveying path of a sheet material, a second sheet conveying member arranged at downstream side of said sheet conveying path, a guide member which is provided between the first and the second sheet conveying members and guides the sheet material and a movable portion which is provided in the guide member and executes front-and-far-side adjustment of the sheet material by moving a portion against which the tip of sheet material is abutted in parallel to a sheet width direction perpendicular to a conveying direction.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a winding unit configured to wind a continuous sheet, a binding unit configured to bind the continuous sheet that is wound and stacked by the winding unit, and a first cutting unit configured to cut the continuous sheet that is bound by the binding unit in a state that the continuous sheet is wound by the winding unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first detecting portion having an abutting portion arranged so as to abut the top surface of sheets on a sheet tray and outputs a signal for determining the presence or absence of the sheets, and a second detecting portion having an abutting portion arranged so as to abut the top surface of the sheets and outputs a signal which determines according to the position of the abutting portion whether the position of the top surface of the blown up sheets is located in a predetermined position. During the sheet feeding operation, the signal which determines that the sheets are absent is input from the first detecting portion to a controller and the signal determining that the top surface of the sheets is located in a predetermined position is not input from the second detecting portion, the controller does not determine that the sheets are absent.

Abstract: A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a first path through which a sheet passes; a switchback member that switches back the sheet passing through the first path and conveys the sheet; a second path through which the sheet switched back and conveyed by the switchback member passes; a guide member that can swing; and a limit member that limits the swing of the guide member. The guide member guides the sheet passing through the first path on one side of the guide member and guides the sheet passing through the second path on the other side of the guide member. A preceding sheet passing through the second path and a following sheet passing through the first path are conveyed in such a way that they pass each other and when the guide member is swung to the second path side, the swing of the guide member is limited by the limit member, whereby a predetermined path interval is secured in the second path.

Abstract: Conveyance speed of recording materials by a fixing roller pair can be set to conveyance speed based on detected results of a recording material detector and a loop detecting sensor, and information on the recording material that has been stored in a memory in advance, and the conveyance speed of the fixing roller pair is set so that loop length of the recording material will be a lower limit length, after the loop detecting sensor detects a loop of the recording material, and before the rear end of the recording material passes through the transfer roller pair.

Abstract: In a multi-output type DC/DC converter, a controller controls, in accordance with first and second output voltages, turning on/off of a switch circuit and selection in an output selection circuit. The controller controls an ON time interval in each time slot of the switch circuit so as to always constant in a steady state without reference to weight of first and second loads.

Abstract: Disclosed a multi-output type DC/DC converter including: a reactor connected to a direct-current power supply; a first switching circuit composed of switches to apply a current to the reactor; a second switching circuit composed of switches to switch an output from the reactor to any one of output terminals; output voltage detection sections to detect voltages of the output terminals; comparison circuits to compare outputs with a waveform signal of a predetermined frequency; and an output selection circuit to receive inputs form comparison circuits, and to select an output of a comparison circuit, the output having the earliest rise or the earliest fall, so as to generate a control signal pertaining to on and off of the first and/or second switching circuit, wherein a current generated by a discharge of energy accumulated in the reactor is output to any one of the terminals in accordance with the control signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image reading apparatus comprising a conveying means for conveying a sheet to a reading position; a platen glass guiding the sheet conveyed at the reading position; a reading apparatus for reading through the platen glass an image on the sheet conveyed at the reading position; a sheet guide member disposed on a side opposite to the reading device with respect to the platen glass for forming a small gap with the platen glass; and a driving means for moving the reading device. The drive device can move the reading device to a main reading position for reading operation at a position at which the sheet conveyed to the reading position is in contact with the platen glass and to at least one sub reading position for reading operation at a position at which the sheet conveyed to the reading position is not in contact with the platen glass.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an imaging lens, an image pickup device, and a correcting circuit. The imaging lens is configured to focus light from an object to form an image. The image pickup device is configured to pick up the image formed by the imaging lens. The correcting circuit is configured to execute computations for correcting image degradation of the image caused by the imaging lens. The imaging lens is also a single lens having a finite gain of optical transfer function and exhibiting a minute difference in the gain between different angles of view of the imaging lens.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus that is capable of preventing input errors and eliminating the necessity of complicated input operations in making settings for a sheet mixing operation in which color image output sheets and black-and-white image output sheets are mixed into one group. A stacker tray stores sheets with color images formed thereon by a color MFP and is equipped with a storage device, into and from which information relating to the sheets can be written and read. A black-and-white MFP operates in response to attachment of the stacker tray to an inserter attached to the black-and-white MFP, to execute an image formation job by providing control such that the sheets with color images formed thereon stored in the stacker tray and sheets with black-and-white images formed thereon by the black-and-white MFP are mixed according to the information stored in the storage device of the stacker tray.