Invention Grant
US08050589B2 Tandem-type process unit removably loaded in image forming device
有权
串联型处理单元可拆卸地装载在图像形成装置中
- Patent Title: Tandem-type process unit removably loaded in image forming device
- Patent Title (中): 串联型处理单元可拆卸地装载在图像形成装置中
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Application No.: US12407086Application Date: 2009-03-19
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Publication No.: US08050589B2Publication Date: 2011-11-01
- Inventor: Yasushi Okabe
- Applicant: Yasushi Okabe
- 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: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2008-168155 20080627
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00

Abstract:
A tandem type of process unit removably loaded in an image forming device has a plurality of process cartridges, a pair of lower supporting plates, and a pair of upper supporting plates. Each of the plurality of process cartridges has a photosensitive drum rotatably about an axis extending in a first direction. Each of the plurality of process cartridges has two side faces facing each other in the first direction and a cartridge electrode provided on the side face. The plurality of process cartridges is aligned in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Each of the lower supporting plates supports a lower part of the side face of each of the plurality of process cartridges. The pair of upper supporting plates is positioned upward and separately from the pair of lower supporting plates. Each of the upper supporting plates supports an upper part of the side face of each of the plurality of process cartridges. The pair of upper support plates and the pair of lower support plates provide a side opening facing the side face of each of the plurality of process cartridges to expose the electrode of each of the plurality of process cartridges toward outside through the side opening.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090324275A1 Tandem-Type Process Unit Removably Loaded In Image Forming Device Public/Granted day:2009-12-31
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