US 12,235,600 B2
Removable unit and image forming apparatus
Takahiro Imada, Kanagawa (JP); Yoshikuni Sasaki, Kanagawa (JP); and Takuya Seshita, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Takahiro Imada, Kanagawa (JP); Yoshikuni Sasaki, Kanagawa (JP); and Takuya Seshita, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/379,675.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-185970 (JP), filed on Nov. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0168421 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 21/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/2017 (2013.01) [G03G 15/2025 (2013.01); G03G 21/1685 (2013.01); G03G 15/2064 (2013.01); G03G 21/1633 (2013.01); G03G 21/1638 (2013.01); G03G 2215/2025 (2013.01); G03G 2221/1639 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A removable unit that is attachable to and detachable from a body of an apparatus, the removable unit comprising:
a positioning projection projecting downward to position a unit or a member located below the removable unit when the removable unit is attached to the body; and
an upstream projection projecting more downward than the positioning projection at an upstream end of the removable unit in an attachment direction of the removable unit to the apparatus,
wherein a lower end of the positioning projection is located higher than a line connecting a lower end of the upstream projection and a lower portion of a downstream end of the removable unit in the attachment direction when viewed in a direction orthogonal to both an up and down direction and the attachment direction, and
wherein the upstream projection comprises a material having an allowable bending stress greater than the positioning projection.