Process cartridge and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11940756B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-26

    申请号:US18071729

    申请日:2022-11-30

    IPC分类号: G03G21/18 G03G21/16

    摘要: A process cartridge comprises a photosensitive drum and a developing roller. A coupling member is provided adjacent to one axial end of the developing roller. The coupling member includes a driven portion, and an intermediary portion configured and positioned to engage with the driven portion. The intermediary portion is also configured to be movable relative to the driven portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the driven portion. The coupling member further includes a driving portion configured and positioned to receive a driving force for rotating the developing roller. The driving portion is also configured to engage with the intermediary portion, and to be movable relative to the intermediary portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the intermediary portion.

    Image forming apparatus to receive a supply container storing developer

    公开(公告)号:US11829095B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-28

    申请号:US18057029

    申请日:2022-11-18

    发明人: Yu Shuhama

    摘要: An image forming apparatus, to which a supply container storing a developer is detachably attachable and which forms an image on a recording material, includes a photosensitive member that rotates, an optical box, a developer bearing member, and a developer container including a supply port for receiving the developer to be supplied from the supply container. The optical box irradiates the photosensitive member with light and forms an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member. The developer bearing member bears the developer and develops the electrostatic latent image by supplying the developer to the photosensitive member. The developer container stores the developer to be borne by the developer bearing member. When viewed in a rotation axial direction of the photosensitive member, a region where the optical box is located and at least a part of a region where the supply port is located overlap each other in a horizontal direction.

    IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DRAWING OUT A POST-PROCESSING UNIT OF THE IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20180081320A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-22

    申请号:US15273664

    申请日:2016-09-22

    发明人: Yuichi SAITO

    IPC分类号: G03G15/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus has an internal discharge space for a sheet, that is located along a vertical axis between an image reading unit and an image forming unit, and first and second guides are installed in the internal discharge space. The first guide is configured to guide a post-processing unit from a first position within the internal discharge space, at which the post-processing unit receives a sheet discharged to the internal discharge space, to a second position within the sheet discharge space, which is downstream of the first position in a sheet discharging direction. The second guide is configured to guide the post-processing unit from the second position in a direction that crosses the guiding direction of the first guide. A moving distance of the post-processing unit from the first position to the second position is shorter than a total length of the post-processing unit in the guiding direction of the first guide.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170176925A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-22

    申请号:US15381200

    申请日:2016-12-16

    发明人: Yuichi Sakakibara

    IPC分类号: G03G15/04

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly; a rotatable photosensitive member; and a cartridge detachably mounted in the main assembly, the cartridge including a rotatable developer carrying sleeve for carrying a developer to be supplied to the photosensitive member and a developer accommodating portion for accommodating the developer to be supplied to the sleeve, wherein with respect to a mounting direction of the cartridge, the developer accommodating portion is disposed downstream of a rotation axis of the sleeve, and a developing portion where a surface of the sleeve is in contact with or closest to the photosensitive member is disposed downstream of the rotation axis of the sleeve or at the same position as the rotation axis of the sleeve.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PAPER FEED DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20170108818A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-04-20

    申请号:US15290044

    申请日:2016-10-11

    发明人: Susumu HASHIMOTO

    IPC分类号: G03G15/00

    摘要: An image forming unit and a paper feed unit on which the image forming unit is stacked is provided. The image forming unit or the paper feed unit includes a connecting fixing member including a connection portion with which the units are connected to and fixed to each other. The connecting fixing member is rotatably provided to one device which is one of the image forming unit and the paper feed unit. The connection portion rotates to an engagement position of the other device, when the connecting fixing member comes into contact with the other device which is the other one of the image forming unit and the paper feed unit.