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- Patent Title: Supporting member, image forming apparatus, sheet feeding device, sheet processing device and image reading device
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Application No.: US16161184Application Date: 2018-10-16
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Publication No.: US10536596B2Publication Date: 2020-01-14
- Inventor: Daiju Yoshino
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2017-202139 20171018
- Main IPC: F16M13/02
- IPC: F16M13/02 ; H04N1/00 ; G03G21/16

Abstract:
A supporting member includes a first plate portion including a supporting surface, a first hole, and a female thread portion formed at an inner peripheral surface of the first hole; a second plate portion provided by hemming the metal plate member; a third plate portion provided by bending the metal plate member at one end portion of the second plate portion at substantially a right angle; and a second hole continuing between the second and third plate portions so that the screw threadably engageable with the female thread portion is prevented from interfering with the second and third plate portions. The second and third plate portions provide a bent portion therebetween positioned within a range of a nominal diameter of the female thread portion with respect to a thickness direction of the third plate portion, as seen in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction.
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