Process cartridge including a coupling member and a sheet that contacts the coupling member

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10025266-B2
Application number	US-201615369979-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 6, 2016
Priority date	Dec 14, 2012
Publication date	Jul 17, 2018
Grant date	Jul 17, 2018

Abstract

A process cartridge including a photosensitive drum; a developing roller; a rotatable roller having a rotation shaft in a position deviated from an axis of the developing roller; an Oldham coupling member at an end portion of the shaft of the rotatable roller; an urging member for urging the drive receiving portion; a supporting portion supporting the drive receiving portion; an abutting portion receiving the supporting portion urged by the urging member, an elastic sheet positioned to contact at least part of the Oldham coupling member, wherein the abutting portion is positioned outside an outer periphery of the drum on a plane perpendicular to the shaft of the rotatable roller.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A process cartridge comprising:
a photosensitive drum;
a rotatable developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the photosensitive drum;
a rotatable roller having a rotation shaft in a position deviated from an axis of the developing roller, the rotatable roller being configured for transmitting a driving force to the developing roller;
an Oldham coupling member disposed at an end portion of the shaft of the rotatable roller, the Oldham coupling including a drive receiving portion for receiving a driving force to be transmitted to the developing roller, wherein the drive receiving portion is movable relative to the rotatable roller in a direction crossing the shaft of the rotatable roller;
an urging member for urging the drive receiving portion in the direction crossing the shaft of the rotatable roller;
a supporting portion for rotatably supporting the drive receiving portion so as to be movable together with the drive receiving portion relative to the rotatable roller in the direction crossing the shaft of the rotatable roller;
an abutting portion for receiving the supporting portion urged by the urging member; and
an elastic sheet provided at an end of the developing roller,
wherein the elastic sheet is configured to rotate along with the developing roller and intermittently contact at least part of the Oldham coupling member by rotation of the elastic sheet.

2. A process cartridge according to claim 1 , wherein the abutting portion is positioned outside an outer periphery of the photosensitive drum on a plane perpendicular to the shaft of the rotatable roller.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Maeshima Hideki
• Tanabe Masato
• Nomura Keisuke
• Shimizu Hiroki

Classifications

• G03G2215/0132

  vertical medium transport path at the secondary transfer · CPC title

• G03G21/1825

  Pivotable subunit connection · CPC title

• G03G15/757

  Drive mechanisms for photosensitive medium, e.g. gears · CPC title

• G03G21/1676

  for the developer unit · CPC title

• G03G21/186

  Axial couplings · CPC title