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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2023
Image forming apparatus including a housing and drive unit and a driver disposed outside the housing
Applicant:
Shiro Akama, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Shiro Akama, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01); G03G 21/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/757 (2013.01); G03G 21/1647 (2013.01); G03G 21/206 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a driven unit, and a driver. The housing includes a pair of plates facing each other. The pair of plates includes a front plate and a rear plate facing the front plate and having an opening. The driven unit is supported by the pair of plates and has one end projecting outside the housing from the opening of the rear plate. The driver is disposed outside the housing and coupled to said one end of the driven unit to drive the driven unit. The driver includes a body separated from an outer face of the rear plate.