US 12,443,136 B2
Sensor holder, 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 Jan. 23, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/419,567.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-012861 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0255892 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G01K 1/14 (2021.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/1647 (2013.01) [G01K 1/14 (2013.01); G03G 15/2017 (2013.01); G03G 15/2064 (2013.01); G03G 21/1652 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensor holder comprising:
a single snap fitter that holds a sensor; and
a regulator that regulates a harness extending from the sensor by a regulation force such that the sensor is pushed to the snap fitter by the regulation force,
wherein:
the snap fitter holds an end of the sensor in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the harness extends from the sensor,
the regulator abuts, from an opposite side to a side of location of the snap fitter in the direction orthogonal to the direction in which the harness extends from the sensor, on a part of the harness where the harness has at a predetermined distance from a connection point between the harness and the sensor and regulates movement of the harness to the opposite side to the side of location of the snap fitter due to elasticity of the harness in the direction orthogonal to the direction in which the harness extends from the sensor,
the harness extending from the sensor includes a plurality of harnesses extending at predetermined intervals in the direction orthogonal to the direction in which the harness extends from the sensor, and,
in the direction orthogonal to the direction in which the harness extends from the sensor, an abutment between the regulator and the harness is located closer to the snap fitter than a position is, the position being located at a center between: a connection point between the sensor and a harness coupled to the sensor closest to the snap fitter from among the plurality of harnesses; and a connection point between the sensor and a harness coupled to the sensor farthest away from the snap fitter from among the plurality of harnesses.