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US09588477B2 Image forming apparatus having overlapping rotator and recording medium receiving member
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图像形成装置具有重叠的旋转体和记录介质接收构件
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus having overlapping rotator and recording medium receiving member
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置具有重叠的旋转体和记录介质接收构件
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Application No.: US14825674Application Date: 2015-08-13
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Publication No.: US09588477B2Publication Date: 2017-03-07
- 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

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
- US20160054698A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-02-25
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