Image carrier unit and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsTomohiro Shimada, Yuta Hoshino
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Abstract
An image carrier unit, insertable into and removable from an apparatus housing, includes: an image carrier; a protection cover removable from and attachable to the image carrier and including a covering portion and a block, the covering portion covering an exposed portion of the image carrier, the block being disposed on a near side in an insertion-removal direction and protruding in a direction crossing the insertion-removal direction; and a surface opposing a far side of the block in the insertion-removal direction, wherein the block is pressed by a protrusion movable toward the apparatus housing.
Claims19
An image carrier unit insertable into and removable from an apparatus housing, comprising:
- an image carrier;
- a protection cover removable from and attachable to the image carrier and including a covering portion and a block, the covering portion covering an exposed portion of the image carrier, the block being disposed on a near side in an insertion-removal direction and protruding in a direction crossing the insertion-removal direction;
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- a surface opposing a far side of the block in the insertion-removal direction,
- wherein the block is pressed by a protrusion movable toward the apparatus housing.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image carrier unit removable from and attachable to an apparatus housing and including an image carrier;
- a protection cover removable from and attachable to the image carrier unit and including a covering portion and a block, the covering portion covering an exposed portion of the image carrier, the block being disposed on a near side in an insertion-removal direction of the image carrier unit and protruding to cross the insertion-removal direction, the block opposing a surface of the image carrier;
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- a protrusion being movable with respect to the apparatus housing and pressing the block of the protection cover attached to the image carrier unit inserted into the apparatus housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.