Drive apparatus and an imaging system
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorYuji AOSHIMA
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Abstract
A driving apparatus includes an endless belt, a belt roller which engages the endless belt, a steering member and an adjustment member. The belt roller has a rotation shaft. The steering member contacts the endless belt at the inner side of the endless belt. The adjustment member is supported rotatably. The adjustment member receives a force in response to the endless belt moving in a longitudinal direction of the rotation shaft of the belt roller, and generates a pressing force that tilts the steering member via a rotational movement of the adjustment member.
Claims15
A driving apparatus for an imaging system, comprising:
- an endless belt having an inner side;
- a belt roller to engage with the endless belt, the belt roller having a rotation shaft;
- a steering member to contact the endless belt at the inner side of the endless belt;
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- an adjustment member supported rotatably, the adjustment member to receive a force in response to the endless belt moving in a longitudinal direction of the rotation shaft of the belt roller, and to generate a pressing force that tilts the steering member via a rotational movement of the adjustment member.
A driving apparatus for an imaging system comprising:
- an endless belt having an inner side opposite an outer side;
- a belt roller to engage with the endless belt, the belt roller including a rotation shaft;
- a steering member to contact the inner side of the endless belt;
- a link mechanism operably coupled to the steering member to tilt the steering member;
- a transmission member mounted to the rotation shaft of the belt roller, to engage with the endless belt;
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- an adjustment member rotatably supported by a pivot portion to operate the link mechanism,
- wherein the adjustment member includes:
- a first contact surface to contact the transmission member, the first contact surface to move in response to a linear movement of the transmission member along a longitudinal direction of the rotation shaft, and
- a second contact surface to redirect a force applied by the linear movement of the first contact surface in a different direction from the linear movement to actuate the link mechanism in the different direction via the second contact surface.
An imaging system comprising:
- an endless belt:
- belt roller to engage with the endless belt, the belt roller including a rotation shaft;
- a steering member located within the endless belt, to contact the endless belt;
- a link mechanism operably coupled to the steering member, to tilt the steering member;
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- an adjustment member that is rotatably supported to convert a linear movement of the endless belt along the longitudinal direction of the rotation shaft into a rotational movement, to actuate the link mechanism in response to the linear movement of the endless belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.