Transmissions with retention noses

• US 10,315,439 B2
• Filed: 07/15/2017
• Issued: 06/11/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Weiss, Asa
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Anthony H
• Application Number:
  US15/650,848
• Publication Number:
  US 20190016155A1
• Time in Patent Office: 696 Days
• Field of Search: 4001614
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 19/202 Drive control means for carriage movement
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 7/06 and connected to transmission members, e.g. toothed gearing
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 7/62 Gearing
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 7/64 Pulley and strand mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2003/0807 with gear ratios in which the power is transferred by axially coupling idle gears
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 3/006 power being selectively transmitted by either one of the parallel flow paths
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 3/04 with internally-toothed gears

Abstract

In an example, a transmission may include a driven gear attached to a module housing of the imaging module. Further, the transmission may include a retention nose fixed or attached to the module housing. The retention nose may engage with a retention shelf of a drive housing and may retain the module housing to the drive housing such that the driven gear is operably engaged with a drive gear attached to the drive housing.

Claims

1. A transmission for an imaging module, comprising:

a driven gear disposed in a module housing of the imaging module; and

a retention nose fixed to the module housing to engage with a retention shelf of a drive housing, the retention nose to retain the module housing to the drive housing such that the driven gear is operably engaged with a drive gear attached to the drive housing.

2. The transmission of claim 1, wherein the retention nose has an outer engagement surface that is about concentric to a center of rotation of the driven gear, the outer engagement surface to abut against a mating surface of the drive housing.

3. The transmission of claim 2, wherein the retention nose extends from the module housing in an arc towards an engagement direction of the imaging module with an imaging device.

4. The transmission of claim 3, wherein the retention nose comprises a first nose portion disposed on a first side of the driven gear, and a second nose portion, adjacent the first nose portion and disposed on a second side of the driven gear.

5. The transmission of claim 1, wherein the driven gear is operably engaged with a gear train of the imaging module, the gear train comprising a plurality of gears operably engaged with each other, wherein the driven gear is to drive the gear train if a torque is applied to the driven gear.

6. An imaging module, comprising:

a module housing;

a transmission having a driven gear and a gear train disposed in the module housing; and

a retention nose extending from the module housing adjacent to the driven gear, the retention nose to extend from the module housing so as to mate with a retention shelf of a drive housing having a drive gear with which the driven gear is to operably engage.

7. The imaging module of claim 6, wherein the module housing is to detachably load into a module bay of an imaging device, and wherein the drive housing is disposed within the module bay.

8. The imaging module of claim 6, wherein the retention nose is to mate with the retention shelf so as to hold the driven gear into operable engagement with the drive gear upon the drive housing being disposed within the module bay.

9. The imaging module of claim 8, wherein the retention nose has an outer engagement surface that is about concentric to a center of rotation of the driven gear, the outer engagement surface to abut against a mating surface of the drive housing adjacent to the retention shelf.

10. The imaging module of claim 6, wherein the imaging module is a duplexer module to enable an imaging device with which the duplexer module is engaged to carry out duplexing imaging operations.

11. An imaging device, comprising:

a printer having a module bay;

a printer transmission having a drive gear engaged with a drive housing, the drive gear disposed in the module bay; and

a duplexer module to detachably engage with the module bay, the duplexer module comprising;

a module housing having a retention nose extending from the module housing towards an engagement direction of the duplexer module with the module bay; and

a transmission having a driven gear attached to the module housing to engage with and be driven by the drive gear,

wherein the retention nose is to latch on to a retention shelf of the drive housing upon the duplexer module being loaded into the module bay.

12. The imaging device of claim 11, wherein the retention nose is to latch on to the retention shelf so as to hold the driven gear into engagement with the drive gear during operation of the duplexer module.

13. The imaging device of claim 12, wherein the retention nose is to extend from the module housing circumferentially to the driven gear in a direction that is opposite to a rotational direction that the driven gear is driven by the drive gear.

14. The imaging device of claim 12, wherein the retention nose has an outer engagement surface that is about concentric to a center of rotation of the driven gear, the outer engagement surface to abut against a mating surface of the drive housing adjacent to the retention shelf.

15. The imaging device of claim 11, wherein the drive gear is to drive at least one media roller to convey print media through the imaging device.