Image forming apparatus with a removable transferring unit

Details Image forming apparatus with a removable transferring unit Image forming apparatus with a removable transferring unit

Filed on

2011-01-04

Date issued

2011-01-04

Examiner

Beatty, Robert (Department: 2852)

Patent Class

Electrophotography

SubClass

Having particular structure

SubSubClass

Modular or displaceable

Type

Reexamination Certificate

Status

active

Patent number

07865113

Description

ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus is described. The image forming apparatus may include a casing, developing agent carriers, an image carrier, and a transferring unit anteroposteriorly detachably mountable to the casing on a front side of the casing. The transferring unit includes a projection at a rear end portion thereof and the casing includes a restricting portion that is arranged lower than the projection of the transferring unit midway through mounting and is engaged with the projection at completion of the mounting of the transferring unit. At least one of the casing and the transferring unit includes a first guide portion for guiding the transferring unit by inclining the transferring unit so that the rear end portion of the transferring unit midway through the mounting is more downwardly inclined than the rear end portion at the completion of the mounting of the transferring unit.

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