Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiaki Hara
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus can include an image forming unit, a conveyance unit, a housing, a first electrical member, a second electrical member, and a wire bundle, wherein a rotation space is left below a pre-image forming conveyance unit in the housing to enable the conveyance unit to be moved. The wire bundle can be routed from the rear to the front of the housing in a space below the conveyance unit in a separated position. A size of the space left in the housing can be changed according to the rotation space of the conveyance unit. The space in the housing, which includes a part of the rotation space preset in the housing for rotation of the conveyance unit, can be effectively used as a space for routing the wire bundle. Thus, the wire bundle is disposed without an increase in a size of the apparatus.
Claims14
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet in a conveyance direction along a first direction;
- a housing including a first frame disposed on a first side of the conveyance unit in a second direction intersecting the first direction and a second frame disposed on a second side opposite to the first side of the conveyance unit in the second direction;
- a first electrical member disposed on the first frame of the housing;
- a second electrical member disposed on the second frame of the housing;
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- a wire configured to electrically connect the first electrical member and the second electrical member,
- wherein the conveyance unit moves between a first position where the conveyance unit conveys the sheet and a second position different from the first position in a third direction perpendicular to an image forming surface of the sheet being conveyed by the conveyance unit at the first position,
- wherein a first space and a second space communicated to the first space are provided inside the housing,
- wherein the conveyance unit moves between the first position and the second position through the first space, and
- wherein the wire is disposed in the second space and on a first side of the second position while the first position is on a second side of the second position, the second side being opposite to the first side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.