Recorders – Printing – dotting – or punching marker – Ink transfer support or moving means
Patent
1991-11-20
1994-08-30
Reinhart, Mark J.
Recorders
Printing, dotting, or punching marker
Ink transfer support or moving means
H04N 121, B41J 24435
Patent
active
053432231
ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus having a sheet storing unit for storing sheets therein along a bottom of a body of the apparatus, a sheet feeding mechanism for feeding the sheets stored in the sheet storing unit one by one toward a rear side of the body, a sheet path for leading each sheet fed by the sheet feeding mechanism upward, an image forming unit for forming an image on the sheet traveling in the sheet path, and a sheet ejecting unit for ejecting the image-formed sheet toward a front side of the body onto a sheet receiving portion disposed on an upper side of the body. The image forming unit is made as a cartridge containing a photosensitive member, a developing device, a transferring device and a cleaner. The cartridge is mounted in a holder which is movable between a cartridge exchange position and a set position.
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Eguchi Tatsuya
Hara Kazuyoshi
Hasegawa Hirofumi
Ikegawa Akihito
Matsuura Yasuhiro
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
Reinhart Mark J.
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