Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Drive device and image forming apparatus including same
- Patent Title (中): 驱动装置及包括其的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13531704Application Date: 2012-06-25
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Publication No.: US08747276B2Publication Date: 2014-06-10
- Inventor: Keisuke Shimizu , Yasuhiro Maehata , Katsuaki Miyawaki , Tetsuo Watanabe , Hiromichi Matsuda
- Applicant: Keisuke Shimizu , Yasuhiro Maehata , Katsuaki Miyawaki , Tetsuo Watanabe , Hiromichi Matsuda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2011-153864 20110712
- Main IPC: F16H57/08
- IPC: F16H57/08

Abstract:
A drive device including a planetary gear reduction device having at least two stages and an output shaft, and a driven shaft to support a driven member rotatively driven by torque reduced by the planetary gear reduction device and transmit the torque from the output shaft to the driven member. Each stage of the planetary gear reduction device includes a sun gear, an outer gear, multiple planetary gears, a carrier, and a support shaft. The output shaft is provided to the carrier of the last stage. Central axes of the sun gear, the outer gear, the carrier, the output shaft, the driven shaft, and the driven member are all arranged coaxially with one another and at least one carrier is floatingly supported relative to the outer gear. The carrier is formed as a single integrated unit having holes into which both ends of the support shaft are fitted.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130017924A1 DRIVE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME Public/Granted day:2013-01-17
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