US 7,454,157 B2
Image forming device and unit position adjustment method
Masahiko Yamada, Tokyo (Japan); Takayuki Andoh, Kanagawa (Japan); Takamasa Shiraki, Kanagawa (Japan); Kohta Takenaka, Kanagawa (Japan); Kazushige Kawamura, Kanagawa (Japan); Hiroshi Ishii, Kanagawa (Japan); and Keisuke Shimizu, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/518,898.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-269289 (JP), filed on Sep. 15, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0059036 A1, Mar. 15, 2007
Int. Cl. G03G 15/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 399—116  [399/121; 399/122] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming device, comprising:
a structure forming a framework of a device main body;
a surface mobile body unit comprising a surface mobile body for supporting/transporting a toner image, or a plurality of surface mobile bodies for transporting a recording medium, and part of a plurality of surface mobile bodies;
the surface mobile body fixed to the structure separately from the surface mobile body unit;
a unit support member, being a member other than the structure, for supporting the surface mobile body unit and for fixing the position of the surface mobile body unit to the structure; and
a unit position adjustment member for adjusting the position of the unit support member relative to the structure.