Attachments to provide an aligning force
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDavid M. Payne, Justin Pettingill, Jeffrey Luke, Gabriel Scott McDaniel
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Abstract
An example mountable set to be mounted in an image forming apparatus (100) includes a process cartridge (200) having a driven gear (210), the driven gear to couple with a driving gear (120) of the image forming apparatus and to receive a driving force from the driving gear and an attachment (300). The attachment includes a mounting portion (310) to mount to the image forming apparatus and a protruding portion (320), coupled to the mounting portion, to provide an aligning force to the driving gear.
Claims15
A mountable set to be mounted in an image forming apparatus, the mountable set comprising:
- a process cartridge having a driven gear, the driven gear to couple with a driving gear of the image forming apparatus and to receive a driving force from the driving gear;
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- an attachment including:
- a mounting portion including a head portion to mount to an internal component of the image forming apparatus;
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- a protruding portion, coupled to the mounting portion, to provide an aligning force to the driving gear on a back side of the driving gear through an opening in an interior panel of the image forming apparatus, the back side of the driving gear being opposite to a front side of the driving gear that is to couple with the driven gear.
An attachment to be mounted in an image forming apparatus, the attachment comprising:
- a mounting portion including a head portion and a bracket coupled to the head portion, the head portion to mount to an interior panel of the image forming apparatus;
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- an elastic forcing portion, coupled to and extending from the bracket of the mounting portion, to be located near a driving gear of the image forming apparatus and to provide an elastic aligning force to the driving gear on a back side of the driving gear through an opening in the interior panel.
An attachment to mount to an image forming apparatus, the attachment comprising:
- a mounting portion including a curved body having a semi-circular form to couple to a curved housing of a driving gear, wherein a radius of the curved body corresponds to a radius of the curved housing, by at least one of an elastic force of the curved body, a double-sided tape, an adhesive, or a mounting device;
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- a protruding portion, protruding from the mounting portion and extending through an opening in the curved housing, to contact the driving gear and provide an aligning force to the driving gear of the image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.