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- Patent Title: Process cartridge, electrophotographic image forming apparatus and electrophotographic photosensitive drum unit
- Patent Title (中): 处理盒,电子照相成像设备和电子照相感光鼓单元
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Application No.: US13724099Application Date: 2012-12-21
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Publication No.: US08688004B2Publication Date: 2014-04-01
- Inventor: Naoya Asanuma , Masanari Morioka , Ryosuke Nakazawa , Teruhiko Sasaki , Masato Hisano
- Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2008-161530 20080620
- Main IPC: G03G21/16
- IPC: G03G21/16

Abstract:
A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The process cartridge includes a coupling member provided at an axial end portion of a photosensitive drum and rotatable about a coupling axis thereof so as to transmit a driving force to the photosensitive drum. The coupling member is capable of inclining relative to the photosensitive drum so that the coupling axis inclines relative to a drum axis, with the coupling member having a first end portion connected to the photosensitive drum, a second end portion, and a connecting portion between the first end portion and the second end portion. A maximum distance from the coupling axis to an outermost surface of the connecting portion along a line perpendicular to the coupling axis is less than a maximum distance from the coupling axis to an outermost surface of the second end portion along a line perpendicular to the coupling axis.
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