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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/16 (2006.01); G03G 15/01 (2006.01); G03G 21/18 (2006.01); G06K 15/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/168 (2013.01); G03G 15/0189 (2013.01); G03G 21/1647 (2013.01); G03G 21/1661 (2013.01); G03G 21/1676 (2013.01); G03G 21/1842 (2013.01); G06K 15/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
A unit assembly () is provided with an image forming unit () and an intermediate transfer unit (), and is configured to be capable of being inserted into and removed from an apparatus body (). The image forming unit () has first processing units (A toD), developing units (A toD), a positioning portion, and a link member (). The positioning portion is provided in each of the developing units (A toD) and determines the mutual relative positions of the developing units (A toD). The link member () links the developing units (A toD) to each other. The intermediate transfer unit () is held by the image forming unit ().