124results about How to "Reduce driving load" patented technology

A sheet finisher for executing preselected processing with a sheet introduced thereinto from an image forming apparatus and then discharging the sheet is disclosed. The sheet finisher includes a stacking device configured to temporarily stack sheets sequentially delivered thereto. Jogger fences jog each sheet within the stacking device. A stapler staples the sheet stack jogged in the stacking device. The stapler is supported by a guide shaft such it is movable along the guide shaft in a direction perpendicular to the direction of sheet conveyance and angularly movable in a direction perpendicular to the direction of guide.

A drive force adjustment apparatus includes a differential gear, a motor, a first gear mechanism and a second gear mechanism. The input element, the first output element, the second output element, the motor input element, the fixed element, and the connecting element are expressed as points I, R, L, M, F and C on a graph, a ordinate of which shows the number of revolutions and a abscissa of which shows relative ratios of the number of revolutions of the elements. Length of L-I is equal to length of R-I, I is located between L and R on a straight line L-R, C is located between L and M on a straight line L-M, and C is located between F and I on a straight line F-I. Or, length of L-I is equal to length of R-I, I is located between L and R on a straight line L-R, C is located between R and M on a straight line R-M, and C is located between F and I on a straight line F-I.

A solid-state imaging device includes: multiple pixels making up a slanted grid array inclined to a scanning direction, which include a photoelectric conversion unit configured to convert incident light quantity into an electric signal; and a charge-to-voltage conversion unit configured to convert signal charge read out from the photoelectric conversion unit disposed between two pixels adjacent to each other in the diagonal direction of the pixels of the multiple pixels into voltage; wherein the charge-to-voltage conversion unit is shared with the two pixels; and wherein a set of transistor group are disposed in a sharing block, which is configured of a pixel pair made up of the two pixels adjacent to each other in the diagonal direction, and a pixel pair adjacent to that pixel pair, including wiring to which the charge-to-voltage conversion unit of each pixel pair is connected.

A transfer device and an image forming apparatus having the same are provided. Shapes of cam profiles of first cam members and second cam members controlling movement of first slider members moving a first transfer roller corresponding to a black developer, and second slider members moving a second transfer roller corresponding to a color developer. Times are different as when movement of the first slider members is completed and when movement of the second slider members is completed in mode conversion among a ready mode, a mono mode and a color mode, and thus a driving load generated when the first and second cam members are rotated is reduced, non-uniformity of the rotating speeds of the first and second cam members is reduced, and problems generated due to non-uniform rotating speeds of the cam members are reduced.

A pixel array and a display panel with the pixel array are provided. The number of the scan lines used in the pixel array is reduced to half, while the number of data lines is doubled because every two sub-pixel rows correspond to one scan line in the pixel array. The wire impedances between the data lines and the pixel array are thus made the same. The aperture ratio of each sub-pixel is thereby increased and the size of the TFT in each sub-pixel is also reduced. The complexity in the wire arrangement of the pixel array is accordingly lowered to improve the transmittance of the display panel and make the frame resolution of the display panel more even.

Driving sources of a reversing section roller and a sheet feeding roller are made common, a drive transmission mechanism to the reversing section roller is provided with clutch means for starting and stopping synchronous rotation after a predetermined rotation, and a degree of freedom in control is enhanced by properly bringing the reversing section roller into a halted state as necessary, thereby realizing reduction in load on the driving source, reduction in noises, and reduction in the size of the apparatus and cost. The apparatus is provided with clutch means, which starts synchronous rotation of the reversing section roller with the sheet feeding roller is started in a period of time from a start of a drive of the sheet feeding roller until nipping of a recording medium by the reversing section roller, after recording is performed onto a front surface, and stops the synchronous rotation of the reversing section roller with the sheet feeding roller in a period of time from release from the reversing section roller until finishing of a sheet discharge operation, after the recording medium from a sheet reversing section is nipped by the sheet feeding roller again.

The invention discloses a spiral lifting device for lifting a self-lifting mobile platform. The spiral lifting device mainly comprises a pile leg with a spiral guide groove, a spiral guide wheel, a gear ring, a main gear, a driver, a top sliding device, a bottom sliding device and a locking mechanism, wherein the base of the driver is fixed on a platform body, the main gear is installed on the output end of the driver, the gear ring is fixed on the outer ring of the spiral guide wheel, the main gear is engaged with the gear ring, and the pile leg with the spiral guide groove penetrates through the inner hole of the spiral guide wheel and is engaged with the spiral guide wheel. During the lifting process of the platform, the driver drives the main gear to rotate, the main gear drives the gear ring to rotate, the gear ring drives the spiral guide wheel to rotate and the spiral guide wheel converts rotating motion into the lifting motion of the platform along the direction of the pile leg. After the platform is lifted, the locking mechanism is engaged with the gear ring to prevent the spiral guide wheel to rotate and achieve the goal of locking. The lifting device has the advantages that the structural strength is high, the driving load requirement is low, the load born by the locking mechanism is small, the locking position is not limited and the like.

A focal plane shutter device is disclosed that includes a shutter base plate, a front curtain, a first urging member, a rear curtain, a second urging member, and a charge mechanism. The shutter base plate defines an opening. The front curtain is moved between different positions by the first urging member to cover and uncover the opening. The rear curtain is moved between different positions by the second urging member to cover and uncover the opening. The charge mechanism applies a first force to resist an urging force by the first urging member and a second force to resist an urging force by the second urging member. The first force applied by the charge mechanism terminates at a different time than the second force applied by the charge mechanism.

An emissive display having pixels delimited by a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of signal lines intersecting with each other. Each pixel includes a memory circuit having at least a first inverter circuit including an electroluminescent device and including a display control circuit connecting in series a main circuit of at least one first transistor. The memory circuit stores display information of the pixel according to a conduction state or a non-conduction state of the main circuit of the first inverter, and controls an on state and an off state of the electroluminescent device.

There is provided a sheet cooling apparatus that cools a sheet while conveying the sheet passed passing through a fixing device for fixing an unfixed toner image formed on the sheet by heating the toner image, wherein a second suspension member is arranged so as to press a second endless belt on a circumferential face of a first cooling roller through a first endless belt, a first suspension member is arranged so as to press the first endless belt on a circumferential face of a second cooling roller through the second endless belt, and a curved sheet conveying path is formed between the first endless belt and the second endless belt.

A vacuum cleaner having a blade, which rotates, is disclosed. The vacuum cleaner includes a body, a blade attached to a lower end of the body, and a rotating unit attached to the body so as to rotate the blade.

An image forming apparatus and a method of driving the same are provided in which, if a driving environment is determined to be a low temperature environment, a driving load of an image forming unit is decreased by repeating driving and stopping a driving motor under a high load driving condition to generate a torque higher than a torque generated under a normal warm-up driving condition; and a warm-up operation is performed by driving the driving motor under the normal warm-up driving condition.

To provide a balancer mechanism where a balancing rotary moment, which offsets at least a part of a rotary moment operating on a rotary shaft, operates on the rotary shaft by a gas spring to reduce the rotary moment simply and reliably.

The balancer mechanism for rotary shaft (8) is provided with a cam member (10) fixed to the left end of rotary shaft (3), a cam follow-up member (15) which makes contact with the cam member (10) to follow it up, and a gas spring (20) comprising a gas spring (20) elastically energizing the cam follow-up member (15) toward the cam member (10) and operates a balancing rotary moment offsetting at least a part of the rotary moment of rotary shaft on the rotary shaft (3) via the cam follow-up member (16) and the cam member (10).

An oil pressure supply system of automatic transmission may include mechanical oil pump discharging the pumped oil pressure to line pressure passage, line regulator valve controlling the oil pressure of the line pressure passage and supplying the controlled oil pressure to first passage, line regulator valve controlling the oil pressure of the first passage and supplying the controlled oil pressure to second and third passages, torque converter lock-up clutch control valve changing over passage to supply the oil pressure of the second passage and supply the oil pressure through the third passage to cooling/lubrication portion through sixth passage, electric oil pump discharging the oil to seventh passage, first switch valve to selectively opening the oil pressure supplied to eighth passage, second switch valve selectively supplying some of the oil pressure supplied to the eighth passage to the cooling/lubrication portion through ninth passage, and four solenoid valves for controlling the valves.

The invention relates to a self-resetting single-valve main and auxiliary piston hydraulic driving device and method for a push rod engine. The self-resetting single-valve main and auxiliary piston hydraulic driving method comprises the steps that a rocker arm body and a valve bridge body are correspondingly provided with a driving main piston and a driving auxiliary piston, the driving auxiliarypiston is connected with an exhaust valve, and a driving oil path communicates with the driving main piston, the driving auxiliary piston and a driving control valve; when the driving control valve opens the drive oil path, the driving main piston and the driving auxiliary piston achieve hydraulic linkage, the rocker arm body and the valve bridge do not move during lift driving, and the driving auxiliary piston opens the exhaust valve; when the main lift starts, a main piston body oil path and an auxiliary piston oil path are disconnected, and the driving auxiliary piston resets automatically;and when the driving oil path is disconnected, in the integrated cam driving lift process, the driving main piston absorbs the driving lift of an integrated cam and a push rod assembly to the rockerarm body, the rocker arm body does not move, and the integrated cam driving lift is not transmitted to one side of the exhaust valve. The self-resetting single-valve main and auxiliary piston hydraulic driving method is simple in principle, compact in structure and easy to optimize, and the reliability and durability of engine driving operation are improved.

A display device includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel configured to share one data line, a first transistor configured to turn on or off by a first control signal and configured to couple the first sub-pixel to the one data line, and a second transistor configured to turn on or off alternately with the first transistor by a second control signal having a phase difference from that of the first control signal and configured to couple the second sub-pixel to the one data line.

A lens barrel capable of achieving a smooth zoom operation and reducing a driving load at the time of barrel retraction. The lens barrel includes a rectilinear guide cylinder rectilinearly moving in an optical axis direction, and a movable cam cylinder moving in the optical axis direction while rotating relative to the guide cylinder. The guide cylinder is formed at its inner peripheral surface with a cam groove and a rectilinear guide groove that divides the cam groove at a boundary between a retracted region and a photographing region, and is formed with a penetration cam groove extending from the inner peripheral surface to an outer peripheral surface of the guide cylinder. The movable cam cylinder moves in the photographing region while the first pin engages the cam groove, and moves in the retracted region while the second pin engages the penetration cam groove.

The invention provides an independently-driven on-line unloading type calcium carbide furnace discharging transport cart. The independently-driven on-line unloading type calcium carbide furnace discharging transport cart comprises a transmission device, a plurality of ishinabe trolleys, a plurality of opening and closing mold calcium carbide bowls and a stopping control system. The independently-driven on-line unloading type calcium carbide furnace discharging transport cart is characterized in that the transmission device comprises driving stand rods and guide stand rods which are arranged in front of and at back of the bottom of the trolleys. According to the cart, the trolleys are individually controlled and driven, compared with an overall row driving manner, the rail turning radius can be smaller, and the arrangement space can be saved; and meanwhile, as waiting is not needed between the trolleys, the running time can be saved, the running efficiency is greatly improved, the number of the trolleys is reduced, and the plant arrangement area is saved.