Abstract: A drive switching device includes: a covering member that is rotatably provided on a support shaft provided in a housing including a driver, and is rotatable from a closed position for covering an inside of the housing to an open position for exposing the inside of the housing; an input unit that is provided in the covering member, and receives an input of displacement caused by rotation of the covering member; a release member provided in a direction apart from the input unit inside the housing and including a cam that moves in conjunction with movement of the input unit, the release member being configured to, upon rotation of the covering member toward the open position, disconnect a drive transmission path of the driver by the cam; and multiple links connected to the input unit and the cam, the multiple links being configured to, upon rotation of the covering member, move the cam in an opposite direction to a direction in which the input unit is moved.

Abstract: A power transmission member includes: a male member formed from a resin material and including a plurality of engagement teeth arranged at regular intervals in a circumferential direction when viewed in an axial direction, the engagement teeth having a uniform thickness in a radial direction; a female member including a to-be-engaged portion to which the engagement teeth are fitted as a result of the female member moving in the axial direction relative to the male member; and a fitting member disposed at the male member and the female member, the fitting member fitting the engagement teeth to the to-be-engaged portion while the male member and the female member are located in predetermined opposing positions in the circumferential direction to engage the male member and the female member with each other.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a placing portion onto which a recording medium having an image formed is to be placed, and an opening-closing member that covers an opening provided at least at one side face of the placing portion and automatically opens the opening with a predetermined timing.

Abstract: A drive switching device includes: a covering member that is rotatably provided on a support shaft provided in a housing including a driver, and is rotatable from a closed position for covering an inside of the housing to an open position for exposing the inside of the housing; an input unit that is provided in the covering member, and receives an input of displacement caused by rotation of the covering member; a release member provided in a direction apart from the input unit inside the housing and including a cam that moves in conjunction with movement of the input unit, the release member being configured to, upon rotation of the covering member toward the open position, disconnect a drive transmission path of the driver by the cam; and multiple links connected to the input unit and the cam, the multiple links being configured to, upon rotation of the covering member, move the cam in an opposite direction to a direction in which the input unit is moved.

Abstract: A power transmission member includes: a male member formed from a resin material and including a plurality of engagement teeth arranged at regular intervals in a circumferential direction when viewed in an axial direction, the engagement teeth having a uniform thickness in a radial direction; a female member including a to-be-engaged portion to which the engagement teeth are fitted as a result of the female member moving in the axial direction relative to the male member; and a fitting member disposed at the male member and the female member, the fitting member fitting the engagement teeth to the to-be-engaged portion while the male member and the female member are located in predetermined opposing positions in the circumferential direction to engage the male member and the female member with each other.

Abstract: A rotation transmission structure includes: a first member that is provided on a rotating body and includes a plural straight teeth extending in an axial direction of the rotating body and arranged in a circumferential direction; a second member that is provided on a moving body moving in the axial direction of the rotating body, includes a plural straight teeth extending in the axial direction of the rotating body and arranged in the circumferential direction, and is fitted to the first member to transmit rotation of the rotating body to the moving body in a case where the moving body approaches the rotating body; a biasing member that biases the first member toward the moving body; and a rotation mechanism that is provided between the first member and the rotating body and rotates the first member in a case where the first member is moved toward the rotating body.

Abstract: A driving device includes a driving source, a fixing portion to which the driving source is fixed, a first transmission portion attached to the fixing portion to transmit a driving force from the driving source, a second transmission portion engaged with the first transmission portion while having an intermeshing width in a first direction to receive the driving force from the first transmission portion, a mount portion located in the first direction from the fixing portion and to which the second transmission portion is attached, a fastening portion including a mounted portion disposed on a side of the fixing portion opposite to a side facing the mount portion, the fastening portion fastening the fixing portion and the mount portion to each other, a first cushioning member disposed between the mounted portion and the fixing portion, and a second cushioning member disposed between the fixing portion and the mount portion, and having a greater spring constant than the first cushioning member.

Abstract: A rotation transmission structure includes: a first member that is provided on a rotating body and includes a plural straight teeth extending in an axial direction of the rotating body and arranged in a circumferential direction; a second member that is provided on a moving body moving in the axial direction of the rotating body, includes a plural straight teeth extending in the axial direction of the rotating body and arranged in the circumferential direction, and is fitted to the first member to transmit rotation of the rotating body to the moving body in a case where the moving body approaches the rotating body; a biasing member that biases the first member toward the moving body; and a rotation mechanism that is provided between the first member and the rotating body and rotates the first member in a case where the first member is moved toward the rotating body.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a placing portion onto which a recording medium having an image formed is to be placed, and an opening-closing member that covers an opening provided at least at one side face of the placing portion and automatically opens the opening with a predetermined timing.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a reading member that reads an image of a document that is transported, a discharge portion onto which the document that is read by the reading member is discharged, a placement portion that is installed above the discharge portion, an object being placed on the placement portion such that at least a part of an upper surface of the reading member is covered, and an image capturing member that is installed above the placement portion and that captures an image of the object that is placed on the placement portion.

Abstract: A document reading device includes an imaging unit that images a document, a placing portion that includes a first placing portion and a second placing portion and that has a placing surface on which the document is placed, the placing surface being formed by the first placing portion and the second placing portion, and a detector that detects an edge of the document that is placed on the placing surface by using a color difference or a luminance difference between the placing surface and the document. An end portion of the first placing portion adjacent to the second placing portion extends toward the second placing portion beyond an end portion of the second placing portion adjacent to the first placing portion.

Abstract: A container apparatus includes a first container unit that is movable from a first position at which a recording medium having a first size is to be supplied into an apparatus body to a second position at which a user is to supply the recording medium and that includes an upstream end portion and a downstream end portion in a direction in which the recording medium is to be supplied into the apparatus body with the first container unit positioned at the first position. The upstream end portion and the downstream end portion of the first container unit are located at different heights with the first container unit positioned at the second position.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a medium discharge portion onto which a medium to be taken out by a person with the person standing is discharged, a placement portion that is installed above the medium discharge portion, an object in color that is represented by using a Y-value closer than a value that represents black color to a value that represents white color where the color is represented by using a Y-value that represents luminance in a YCbCr method being placed on the placement portion, an image capturing member that is installed above the placement portion and that captures an image of the object that is placed on the placement portion.

Abstract: A document reading device includes: an image capturing member that captures an image of a document; a placement portion that is disposed below the image capturing member and that has a boundary line between multiple surfaces at a position at which the boundary line is covered by the document when the document has a maximum size that the image capturing member is capable of imaging and the document is placed on the placement portion; and a document reading member that reads the document that is placed on the placement portion.

Abstract: A driving device includes: a frame disposed in the driving device to support a driven unit driven by the driving device, the frame including a first portion, a distance from which to an outer wall of an accommodation device that accommodates the driving device is shorter, and a second portion, a distance from which to the outer wall is longer than the distance from the first portion to the outer wall; and a driving unit disposed between the second portion and the outer wall, at least a part of the driving unit being away from the outer wall by the distance between the first portion and the outer wall or more.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium and a medium storage part in which a recording medium to be supplied to the image forming part is stored; and a front opening/closing covering that is an openable and closable covering that covers at least a part of the image forming part and a part of the medium storage part on a front face of the apparatus body, wherein the front opening/closing covering is constituted by a single opening/closing covering that covers at least a range from one end to the other end in a left-right direction of the part of the medium storage part in a left-right direction of the apparatus body.

Abstract: A sheet containing apparatus includes a first container unit that contains a sheet having a first size and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a first end and a second end in a width direction of the apparatus are located at different heights with the first container unit installed in a sheet containing apparatus body when viewed in a first direction, and a covering portion that is movable to a covering position at which the covering portion covers at least a part of the first container unit in the first direction and an open position at which the covering portion uncovers the first container unit in the first direction. When viewed in the first direction, a tilting division line is adjacent to the first container unit and tilts with respect to the horizontal direction, and at least a whole of the tilting division line is covered by the single covering portion in the first direction with the covering portion positioned at the covering position.

Abstract: An intermittent drive device includes a tooth-missing gear having a tooth row partially missing, an output gear, an input gear provided with a first tooth row receiving a driving force and a second tooth row transmitting the driving force to the tooth-missing gear and arranged at a position apart from the output gear in a rotation axis direction. A shaft joint member moves in the rotation axis direction to a first position where the driving force is transmitted to the output gear and a second position where the transmission is released. A tooth-missing gear control mechanism starts rotation of the tooth-missing gear from a state where the driving force from the input gear is released and meshes with the input gear. A switching mechanism switches a position of the shaft joint member in the rotation axis direction between the first position and the second position.

Abstract: A driving force transmission device includes a rotating body that is rotated by receiving a driving force, a control unit that controls rotation of the other rotating part by being switched between a connection state where the control unit is connected to the other rotating part and a separation state where the control unit is separated from the other rotating part as states of the control unit with respect to the other rotating part, and an operation unit that is operated by receiving a force output from the rotating body and includes a contact mechanism to be in contact with the control unit, the contact mechanism being moved by the force output from the rotating body to operate the control unit and the contact mechanism then being separated from the control unit.

Abstract: An intermittent drive device includes a tooth-missing gear having a tooth row partially missing, an output gear, an input gear provided with a first tooth row receiving a driving force and a second tooth row transmitting the driving force to the tooth-missing gear and arranged at a position apart from the output gear in a rotation axis direction. A shaft joint member moves in the rotation axis direction to a first position where the driving force is transmitted to the output gear and a second position where the transmission is released. A tooth-missing gear control mechanism starts rotation of the tooth-missing gear from a state where the driving force from the input gear is released and meshes with the input gear. A switching mechanism switches a position of the shaft joint member in the rotation axis direction between the first position and the second position.