Contact member, image carrier, and image forming apparatus
US9354585B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 29, 2014 |
| Grant date | May 31, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 29, 2034 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G15/751
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A contact member is fitted in a cylindrical body that is substantially cylindrical and configurates an image carrier, and is supported by the cylindrical body while being in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical body at contact portions provided in three areas in a circumferential direction of the cylindrical body. All angles formed by two of straight lines passing through the contact portions and an axial center of the cylindrical body are more than about 90 degrees in a state in which the contact member is supported within the cylindrical body, when viewed from an axial direction of the cylindrical body.
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