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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2006
Ryoji Nishimura, Osaka, JP;
Ryoji Nishimura, Osaka, JP;
Kyocera Mita Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
To realize easier assembly of the photosensitive drum with appropriate contact force to the end face of the drum body, while restricting manufacture cost increase and avoiding need for high skill and/or experience for the factory worker who assembles the drum. A photosensitive drum for use in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The drum includes a cylindrical drum bodyhaving a photosensitive layer, a pair of flangesattached to opposed end faces of the drum body, a reinforcing stayprovided inside the drum body, a drum shaftfor rotatably supporting the drum body via the flanges. The flanges are fixed to the reinforcing stay in such a manner that outer peripheries of the flanges are elastically contacted against the end faces of the drum body. Each flange includes, as a cantilever-like extension thereof, a fixing armfor the reinforcing stay, a leading end of the fixing arm being fixed to the reinforcing stay with the fixing arm being elastically deformed toward the inside of the drum body, such that the fixing arm provides an elastic resilience for causing the outer periphery of the flange to be elastically contacted against the corresponding end face of the drum body.