Sheet-shaped sealing member, removable unit, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Fujiwara, Kazuki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Hosokawa, Osamu Saito
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Abstract
A sheet-shaped sealing member to be pulled out from a front side of the sheet-shaped sealing member in a pull-out direction that is a longitudinal direction of the sheet-shaped sealing member includes a sealing portion and a cutout portion. The sealing portion seals a sealed portion. The cutout portion is cut out to be cantilevered with a position different from the sealing portion as a root portion. The cutout portion has a free end as a fixing portion to be removably fixed to the sealed portion or a fixed portion of a housing in which the sheet-shaped sealing member is installed.
Claims19
A sheet-shaped sealing member to be pulled out from a front side of the sheet-shaped sealing member in a pull-out direction that is a longitudinal direction of the sheet-shaped sealing member, the sheet-shaped sealing member comprising:
- a sealing portion to seal a sealed portion;
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- a cutout portion cut out to be cantilevered with a position different from the sealing portion as a root portion,
- wherein the cutout portion has a free end as a fixing portion to be removably fixed to the sealed portion or a fixed portion of a housing in which the sheet-shaped sealing member is installed.
A sheet-shaped sealing member comprising:
- a base having an elongated sheet shape;
- a cutout portion disposed on the base and cut out to be cantilevered with one end in a longitudinal direction of the sheet-shaped sealing member as a root portion and another end in the longitudinal direction as a free end, the cutout portion having a fixing portion on one surface of the free end;
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- a sealing portion disposed on an end of the base opposite the free end in the longitudinal direction with respect to the root portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.