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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2010
Applicants:
Minoru Toyoda, Hyogo, JP;
Hirobumi Ooyoshi, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Minoru Toyoda, Hyogo, JP;
Hirobumi Ooyoshi, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01); H05F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A mechanism for electrifying a rotator that is used in an image forming apparatus includes a cloth-like or sheet-like conductive member, wherein part of the conductive member comes into contact with an object to be electrified and the other part of the conductive member comes into surface contact with any one contact member of the rotator, a rotating shaft that rotates together with the rotator, and a shaft where the rotator is rotatably supported, so that the object to be electrified and the contact member are electrically connected to each other through the conductive member.