Image formation apparatus and photoreceptor cartridge
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShougo Sato, Makoto Ishii, Yasushi Okabe
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus, includes: a mainframe; a photoreceptor; an exposing unit that exposes a surface of the photoreceptor to form an electrostatic latent image; and a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image by supplying a charged developer on the surface of the photoreceptor having the electrostatic latent image formed thereon. The photoreceptor is loadable in and unloadable from the mainframe separately from the developing unit.
Claims39
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a mainframe;
- a photoreceptor;
- an exposing unit that exposes a surface of the photoreceptor to form an electrostatic latent image;
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- a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image by supplying a charged developer on the surface of the photoreceptor having the electrostatic latent image formed thereon;
- wherein the photoreceptor is loadable in and unloadable from the mainframe separately from the developing unit.
A photoreceptor cartridge to be loaded in an image forming apparatus, wherein the image forming apparatus includes a developing unit that develops an electrostatic latent image by supplying a charged developer, the photoreceptor cartridge comprising:
- a photoreceptor having a surface on which the electrostatic latent image is formed to be developed by the developing unit;
- wherein the photoreceptor cartridge is loadable in and unloadable from a mainframe of the image forming apparatus while being separated from the developing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.