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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2016
Positional control features between replaceable units of an electrophotographic image forming device
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Brian Lester Boettcher, Versailles, KY (US);
Jeffrey Alan Abler, Georgetown, KY (US);
Paul Douglas Horrall, Lexington, KY (US);
Michael David Maul, Waxhaw, NC (US);
Jennifer Marie Murphy, Lexington, KY (US);
Joshua Carl Poterjoy, Mount Joy, PA (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A replaceable unit for an image forming device having features for aligning the replaceable unit when installed in the image forming device and to ensure alignment between the replaceable unit and a detachable unit attachable to the replaceable unit. End walls support a photoconductive drum and have a first bullet nose, second bullet nose and stop arm used for alignment of the replaceable unit in a frame of the image forming device. Support members are on a top surface of the bottom plate with a top planar surface of one of the support members forming a rotational stop and a datum surface for the detachable unit when attached. A mounting channel in one end wall provides a second datum surface for the detachable unit and a mounting channel in the other provides a deskewing plug to adjust axial alignment between the photoconductive drum and a roll in the detachable unit.