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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2014
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Shuichi Ikeda, Odawara, JP;
Shinichi Iijima, Jurong, SG;
MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an end-side member to be arranged at an end of a photoreceptor drum unit which is detachably attached to an image forming apparatus body, the image forming apparatus body including a drive shaft having a concave portion, the concave portion being a hole having a substantially triangular cross-sectional shape and twisted in an extending direction of an axial line of the drive shaft. The end-side member includes a convex-shaped bearing member which is engageable with and disengageable from the concave portion. A depression to be engaged with a rim of an opening of the concave portion is formed in at least a part of an outer circumferential surface of the bearing member.