Patent ID: 9342014
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: B65H,F16C,G03G

Claim Text:
1. A belt device comprising: a belt; a support supporting the belt; a support roller rotatable in a predetermined direction of rotation and supporting the belt, the support roller including a plurality of shafts disposed at both lateral ends of the support roller in an axial direction thereof, respectively; a driven gear mounted on one of the plurality of shafts of the support roller; a driving gear meshing with the driven gear at a mesh position to transmit a driving force to the support roller through the driven gear to rotate the support roller; and an elastic bearing rotatably bearing each of the plurality of shafts of the support roller and having an inner diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the shaft of the support roller, the bearing including a slit defining a part of the bearing in a circumferential direction thereof, the slit being disposed upstream from the mesh position in the direction of rotation of the support roller such that the mesh position and the slit define a circumferential angle not smaller than about 20 degrees.