Staas & Halsey LLP
Apparatus for driving developers of color image forming apparatus
A developer driving apparatus which drives a plurality of developing rollers via a gear chain including pivotable gears and one way gears. A reversible driving motor is coupled to a deceleration gear which directly drives a first swing drive gear and drives a second swing drive gear via an odd number of idler gears. Each swing drive gear is rotationally coupled with a respective swing gear having a center of rotation which is pivotable about a center of rotation of the respective swing drive gear. In a first position each swing gear drives one of the plurality of rollers via a respective one way gear and in a second position, each swing gear drives another of the plurality of rollers via a respective one way gear. A solenoid activated lever moves each swing gear between respective first and second positions.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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inventional
Young-min Yu-man Byeong-hwa
Yoon Kim Ahn