Image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTatsuya Suzuki
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes attachment portions, receiving ports, a storing portion, and an inner cover. The attachment portions are portions to which multiple image forming units, to form respective toner images with different colors from each other, are respectively attachable. The receiving ports are respectively disposed at the attachment portions, and are receivable waste toner respectively discharged from the multiple image forming units attached to the attachment portions. The storing portion communicates with each of the receiving ports to store the waste toner received by the receiving ports. The inner cover has a blocking portion blocking a part of the receiving ports other than a receiving port of an image forming unit of the multiple image forming units attached to the attachment portions.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- attachment portions to which multiple image forming units, to form respective toner images with different colors from each other, are respectively attachable;
- receiving ports:
- respectively disposed at the attachment portions;
- and
- configured to receive waste toner respectively discharged from the multiple image forming units attached to the attachment portions;
- a storing portion communicating with each of the receiving ports to store the waste toner received by the receiving ports;
- and
- an inner cover having a blocking portion blocking a part of the receiving ports other than a receiving port of an image forming unit of the multiple image forming units attached to the attachment portions,
- wherein the blocking portion is integrally molded with the inner cover,
- wherein the blocking portion has a recessed shape in which the blocking portion is recessed from a main body of the inner cover toward an interior of the image forming apparatus, and
- the blocking portion has a rectangular shape recessed toward the interior of the image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.