Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshiharu Kawai
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a first frame member and a second frame member which are aligned in a direction of a rotation axis of an image bearing member and faces each other across an image forming unit and a stacking unit. The first frame member includes a first portion including a first side surface facing the image forming unit and a second portion, which is fixed to the first portion, including a second side surface facing the stacking unit. The second frame member includes a third side surface facing the image forming unit and the stacking unit, and at least a part of the second side surface is provided in a position different from a position of the first side surface in the direction of the rotation axis of the image bearing member.
Claims14
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to transfer a toner image formed on an image bearing member onto a recording medium;
- a stacking unit on which a recording medium to be conveyed to the image forming unit is stacked;
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- a first frame member and a second frame member which are aligned in a direction of a rotation axis of the image bearing member and face each other across the image forming unit and the stacking unit,
- wherein the first frame member includes a first side surface facing the image forming unit and a second side surface being provided separately from the first side surface and facing the stacking unit, and the second side surface being fixed to the first side surface, and
- wherein the second frame member includes an integrally-formed surface, the integrally-formed surface being a reference surface provided commonly for the image forming unit and the stacking unit,
- wherein the first frame member supports a low voltage power supply unit configured to supply low voltage power to a high-voltage power supply unit, and the low voltage power supply unit is provided on a side opposite to the stacking unit across the second side surface in the direction of the rotation axis of the image bearing member,
- wherein the high-voltage power supply unit converts the low voltage power into high voltage power and supplies the high voltage power to the image forming unit, and
- wherein the second frame member supports the high-voltage power supply unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.