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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2013
Yasuhiro Kuba, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasutomo Ide, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsuyoshi Hashiyada, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiki Yokoyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Kouhei Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Kuba, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasutomo Ide, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsuyoshi Hashiyada, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiki Yokoyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Kouhei Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A slide rail comprises a fixed rail; a movable rail slidably attached to the fixed rail; and a roller that is attached to at least one of the fixed rail and the movable rail and runs on the other one of the fixed rail and the movable rail as the movable rail slides, the other one of the fixed rail and the movable rail including a running wall on which the roller runs and sliding contact walls that come into sliding contact with opposite side surfaces, in a direction of a rotation axis of the roller, of the roller, wherein the roller includes a metal-made roller main body and a pair of resin-made sliding plates that sandwich the roller main body from opposite sides thereof in the direction of the rotation axis of the roller, and the pair of sliding plates are in sliding contact with the sliding contact walls.