Invention Grant
US07769329B2 Image forming apparatus that drives plural image forming stations with common motor
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用普通电机驱动多个图像形成站的图像形成装置
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus that drives plural image forming stations with common motor
- Patent Title (中): 用普通电机驱动多个图像形成站的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US11551600Application Date: 2006-10-20
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Publication No.: US07769329B2Publication Date: 2010-08-03
- Inventor: Noriaki Shimura , Nobutaka Suzuki , Ken Ikuma
- Applicant: Noriaki Shimura , Nobutaka Suzuki , Ken Ikuma
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Hogan Lovells US LLP
- Priority: JP2005-307543 20051021; JP2005-307544 20051021
- Main IPC: G03G15/01
- IPC: G03G15/01

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus has plural image forming stations along a travel direction of a transfer medium. Each image forming station has a latent image carrier that rotates in a sub scanning direction, an image writer that forms a latent image on the latent image carrier and a developer that has a toner carrier extending along a main scanning direction approximately perpendicular to the sub scanning direction. Each image writer has a line head near the latent image carrier with light emitting elements arranged in a row along the main scanning direction. Rotation drive force developing at one common motor is transmitted to plural places in sections of the apparatus to superimpose toner images one atop the other. A motor main section of the common motor overlaps the transfer medium in the in-plane arrangement viewed from a vertical direction perpendicular to both the main and sub scanning directions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070092297A1 Image Forming Apparatus Public/Granted day:2007-04-26
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