IP Library Granted Patent US 9,772,598
Granted Patent B2
US 9,772,598 · App. 14/063,091 · Granted Sep 26, 2017

Cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus

Inventors: Noriyuki Komatsu (Numazu, JP); Shunsuke Uratani (Mishima, JP); Toru Oguma (Mishima, JP)
Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
G03G21/1647G03G21/1825G03G21/1864
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Patent No.
US 9,772,598
App. No.
14/063,091
Granted
Sep 26, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A cartridge for a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The cartridge includes a rotatable driven coupling member including a driving force receiving portion for receiving a driving force and a driven side abutment to be abutted by a driving side abutment. The coupling member is slidable in a predetermined direction that is substantially parallel to a rotational axis of the coupling member.

Claims (8)

1. An electrophotographic image forming apparatus comprising:

a rotatable driving coupling member including a driving force transmitting portion for transmitting a driving force and a driving side abutment portion;

a cartridge dismountable in a dismounting direction substantially perpendicular to a rotational axis of said driving coupling member, said cartridge including:

a casing,

a photosensitive drum rotatably supported in said casing,

a rotatable driven coupling member including a plurality of projections that extend from a surface of said driven coupling member that is perpendicular to a rotational axis of said driven coupling member, with said plurality of projections being driving force receiving portions for receiving the driving force to rotate said photosensitive drum, said driven coupling member including a driven side abutment portion to be abutted by said driving side abutment portion, and said driven coupling member being translatable in a predetermined direction that is substantially parallel with a rotational axis of said photosensitive drum,

wherein at least one of said driving side abutment portion and said driven side abutment portion is inclined so that said driven coupling member is retractable away from said driving coupling member in the predetermined direction by a force received by said driven side abutment portion from said driving side abutment portion when said cartridge is dismounted from a main assembly in the dismounting direction, and

wherein a distance between the rotational axis of said driven coupling member and said driven side abutment portion is not more than a distance between the rotational axis of said driven coupling member and said driving force receiving portions.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-111127 · Apr 30, 2009 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 12766134 · Apr 23, 2010
Related Publication 20140112685A1 · Apr 24, 2014