Image forming apparatus and image forming unit
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazutaka Sueshige, Tatsuro Harada, Takayuki Yada, Akinobu Hirayama
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Abstract
An image forming unit to be attached to an apparatus body of an image forming apparatus includes a first cartridge including a driven portion configured to rotate on a first rotational axis; and a second cartridge configured separable from the first cartridge. The second cartridge includes an input portion configured to receive driving force from the apparatus body; and a drive transmission portion configured to rotate on a second rotational axis and to transmit the driving force to the driven portion.
Claims13
A cartridge to be attached to and detached from an apparatus body of an image forming apparatus, the cartridge comprising:
- a first unit including:
- (i) a first driven portion configured to be driven by a first driving member that is provided in the apparatus body, the first driven portion being arranged to be adjacent to the first driving member in a rotational axis direction of the first driven portion in a state where the first unit is attached to the apparatus body;
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- (ii) a second driven portion configured to be driven by a second driving member provided in a second unit that can be attached to and detached from the apparatus body in the state where the first unit is attached to the apparatus body, the second driven portion being configured to directly engage with the second driving member, and the second driven portion being arranged to be adjacent to the second driving member in a direction orthogonal to a rotational axis direction of the second driven portion in the state where the first unit is attached to the apparatus body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.