Rotating transport member with flexible section and rigid section
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorKeita Hashimoto
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Abstract
A transporting member includes: a first transporting section that has flexibility and that has a first shaft and a blade existing helically on a surface of the first shaft and transporting a transport object; a second transporting section having a second shaft that extends from a first end of the first shaft and that has higher rigidity than the first shaft, and also having a coil that exists helically on a surface of the second shaft, is movable toward and away from the surface of the second shaft, and transports the transport object; and a drive section that is attached to an end of the second shaft opposite the first shaft or to a third shaft having higher rigidity than the first shaft by being connected to the end and that is driven by receiving a rotational force.
Claims20
A transporting member comprising:
- a first transporting section that has flexibility and has a first shaft and a blade existing helically on a surface of the first shaft and transporting a transport object;
- a second transporting section that has a second shaft extending from a first end of the first shaft and having higher rigidity than the first shaft, and that also has a coil existing helically on a surface of the second shaft and movable toward and away from the surface of the second shaft, the coil transporting the transport object;
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- a drive section that is attached to an end of the second shaft opposite the first shaft or to a third shaft having higher rigidity than the first shaft by being connected to the end, the drive section being driven by receiving a rotational force.
A transporting member comprising:
- a first transporting section that has flexibility and has a first shaft and a blade existing helically on a surface of the first shaft and transporting a transport object;
- a second transporting section that has a second shaft extending from a first end of the first shaft and having higher rigidity than the first shaft, and that also has a coil having an inner coil diameter larger than an outer diameter of the second shaft and transporting the transport object;
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- a drive section that is attached to an end of the second shaft opposite the first shaft or to a third shaft having higher rigidity than the first shaft by being connected to the end, the drive section being driven by receiving a rotational force.
A transporting member comprising:
- a first transporting section that has flexibility and has a first shaft and a blade existing helically on a surface of the first shaft and transporting a transport object;
- a second shaft to which a coil that transports the transport object is attachable, the second shaft extending from a first end of the first shaft and having higher rigidity than the first shaft;
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- a drive section that is attached to an end of the second shaft opposite the first shaft or to a third shaft having higher rigidity than the first shaft by being connected to the end, the drive section being driven by receiving a rotational force.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.