US 6,983,113 B2
Recycling method using a modified part and image forming apparatus manufactured using the recycling method
Yasuyoshi Yamamoto, Moriya (Japan); Masahiro Funakoshi, Toride (Japan); Masaaki Saito, Tokyo (Japan); Ikuo Takeuchi, Toride (Japan); Shinsuke Ubayashi, Kashiwa (Japan); Takayuki Kato, Kashiwa (Japan); Naoya Kikkawa, Toride (Japan); Akihiro Shimizu, Kashiwa (Japan); and Hideaki Miyazawa, Abiko (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Aug. 28, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/229,234.
Claims priority of application No. 2001-264585 (JP), filed on Aug. 31, 2001; application No. 2001-274813 (JP), filed on Sep. 11, 2001; and application No. 2001-390895 (JP), filed on Dec. 25, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2003/0059229 A1, Mar. 27, 2003
Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 399—109 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recycling method for recycling an apparatus of a first type into an apparatus of a second type, said method comprising the steps of:
removing a first type of part from a supporting portion of a supporting member; and
mounting a second type of part to another supporting portion of the supporting member which is different from the supporting portion from which the first type of part has been removed in said removing steps,
wherein the supporting member has a number of such supporting portions, the number exceeding a number of the supporting portions for the first type of part or a number of the supporting portions for the second type of part.