Image forming apparatus and member aligning method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshihisa OTAKE
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a first member configured to have a projecting section having a reference plane parallel to a projecting direction thereof; a second member configured to have a hole into which the projecting section is inserted, an aligning section that comes into contact with the reference plane of the projecting section inserted into the hole, and a deformation section that comes into contact with, in a state bent to the inserting direction side, a surface on an opposite side to the reference plane of the projecting section inserted into the hole.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a unit configured to execute at least a part of image forming process;
- a first member comprising a projecting section including a reference plane parallel to a projecting direction thereof, configured to support the unit;
- a second member comprising a hole into which the projecting section is inserted, an aligning section to contact with the reference plane of the projecting section inserted into the hole, and a deformation section to contact with a surface on an opposite side to the reference plane of the projecting section inserted into the hole in a state bent to the inserting direction side.
A member aligning method comprising:
- aligning a projecting section of a first member comprising a reference plane parallel to a projecting direction thereof with a hole formed in the second member by bringing the reference plane of the projecting section into contact with an aligning section of a second member;
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- inserting the projecting section into the hole of the second member while pressing a distal end in an inserting direction of the projecting section against a deformation section of the second member to bend the deformation section to the inserting direction side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.