Driving apparatus, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorYasutada TSUKIOKA
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Abstract
A driving apparatus is disclosed. The driving apparatus includes a driving mechanism which includes a moving drive gear, the moving drive gear being a drive gear which is mounted on an axis-moving rotor, the axis-moving rotor being a rotor, the center of which rotor is able to move. The axis-moving rotor is movable over a certain distance in a linear direction. The driving apparatus further comprises idler gears connected to the moving drive gear, the idler gears including a fixed idler gear having a fixed axis; and a moving idler gear having a movable axis. The axis of the moving idler gear can oscillate around the axis of the fixed idler gear, and the moving idler gear can move along a periphery direction of the moving drive gear with movement of the moving drive gear.
Claims9
A driving apparatus comprising a driving mechanism which includes a moving drive gear, the moving drive gear being a drive gear which is mounted on an axis-moving rotor, a center of which axis-moving rotor is able to move, wherein the axis-moving rotor is movable over a certain distance in a linear direction,
- the driving apparatus further comprising idler gears connected to the moving drive gear,
- the idler gears including
- a fixed idler gear having a fixed axis;
- and
- a moving idler gear having a movable axis, wherein the axis of the moving idler gear can oscillate around the fixed axis of the fixed idler gear,
- wherein the moving idler gear can move along a periphery direction of the moving drive gear with movement of the moving drive gear.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.