US 12,346,049 B2
Driving device and image forming apparatus
Shinnosuke Kondo, Kanagawa (JP); Naoyuki Kato, Kanagawa (JP); Kenji Yamada, Kanagawa (JP); Satoshi Noda, Kanagawa (JP); Kenichi Ishikura, Kanagawa (JP); Takahiro Iizuka, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Shinya Hasegawa, Kanagawa (JP); Kota Tomioka, Kanagawa (JP); Yoichi Yamakawa, Kanagawa (JP); Tomonori Sato, Kanagawa (JP); Ryusuke Nakata, Kanagawa (JP); Kazuyuki Koda, Kanagawa (JP); Isamu Adachi, Kanagawa (JP); Miho Morita, Kanagawa (JP); Tomomi Ishida, Kanagawa (JP); Shinichi Ohba, Kanagawa (JP); Taisuke Endo, Kanagawa (JP); Yuya Shiokawa, Kanagawa (JP); Daisuke Ishihara, Kanagawa (JP); and Kohei Tachibana, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/715,021.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-135289 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135290 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135424 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135483 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135487 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135489 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135490 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135491 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; and application No. 2022-003404 (JP), filed on Jan. 12, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0054566 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/5008 (2013.01) [G03G 15/6552 (2013.01); G03G 21/1619 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driving device, configured to drive a driven unit and be accommodated in an accommodation device, the driving device comprising:
a frame disposed in the driving device to support the driven unit, the frame being formed of a metal sheet and including a first portion having a first distance from an outer wall of the accommodation device, and a second portion having a second distance from the outer wall, the second distance being longer than the first distance, and the first portion and the second portion being disposed in parallel with the outer wall;
a device substrate disposed between the frame and the outer wall and extending in a same direction as the outer wall; and
at least one driving unit disposed between the second portion and the outer wall and arranged on the device substrate at a side away from the outer wall, at least a part of the at least one driving unit being away from the outer wall by the first distance or more.