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AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsMasahiko Yamada, Takayuki Andoh, Takamasa Shiraki, Kohta Takenaka, Kazushige Kawamura, Hiroshi Ishii, Keisuke Shimizu
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The present invention provides an image forming device capable of forming high-quality images and affording high-precision rotating shaft parallelism between surface mobile bodies, and a unit position adjustment method for adjusting the position of a surface mobile body unit relative to the main body of the image forming device. The image forming device includes a front fixing guide plate as a unit support member for fixing, to a front plate of a structure, a fixing unit serving as a surface mobile body unit which includes a fixing roller being a surface mobile body, and an upper portion eccentric cam and a horizontal portion eccentric cam serving as a unit position adjustment member for adjusting the position of the front fixing guide plate relative to the front plate.
An image forming device, comprising:
A unit position adjustment method for adjusting, relative to an image forming device main body, a fixed position of a surface mobile body unit comprising a surface mobile body for supporting/transporting a toner image, or a surface mobile body for transporting a recording medium, comprising the step of adjusting, by means of a unit position adjustment member, the position of a unit support member relative to a structure that forms a framework of the image forming device main body, the unit support member being a member other than the structure and fixing the surface mobile body unit to the structure, to adjust thereby the fixed position of the surface mobile body unit relative to the image forming device main body.
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