Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus with a refeeding path having vertical and horizontal refeeding paths
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Application No.: US15447461Application Date: 2017-03-02
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Publication No.: US10175644B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Shougo Sato
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken
- Agency: Merchant & Gould P.C.
- Priority: JP2014-169804 20140822; JP2014-241001 20141128
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/18

Abstract:
There is provided an image forming apparatus including a main body and a cartridge having an image carrier and a first coupling configured to rotate the image carrier. The main body includes a second coupling, a rotator and a receiving member. The second coupling is configured to rotate together with the first coupling about a rotation axis coaxially with the first coupling. The rotator includes gear teeth. The rotator is configured to rotate the second coupling in response to receiving the drive force from the drive source, and to rotate together with the second coupling about the rotation axis coaxially with the second coupling. The rotator, which is configured to rotate about the rotation axis coaxially with the first coupling configured to rotate the image carrier, overlaps with the receiving member when viewed from an axial direction parallel to the rotation axis.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170176928A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-06-22
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