Image-forming apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShougo Sato
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Abstract
An image-forming apparatus includes: a main body; at least one photosensitive member; an exposing unit; a plurality of developing units; a transferring unit; and a first holding unit. The photosensitive member has an axis. The first holding unit holds the plurality of developing units that are arranged in a row along a first removal direction that is orthogonal to the axis of the photosensitive member and that is substantially horizontal. The first holding unit is accommodated at a first accommodating position in the main body and is capable of being moved, independently from the photosensitive member, to a first removal position that is separate from the first accommodating position in the first removal direction.
Claims14
An image-forming apparatus, comprising:
- a main body;
- at least one photosensitive member, the photosensitive member having an axis;
- an exposing unit that forms electrostatic latent images on the surface of the photosensitive member;
- a plurality of developing units, each developing unit having a developer-accommodating section that accommodates developer and a developer-carrying member that develops a corresponding electrostatic latent image formed by the exposing unit on the photosensitive member into a visible image by supplying developer from the developer-accommodating section onto the surface of the photosensitive member;
- a transferring unit that transfers the visible images formed on the photosensitive member to a recording medium;
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- a first holding unit that holds the plurality of developing units that are arranged in a row along a first removal direction that is orthogonal to the axis of the photosensitive member and that is substantially horizontal, the first holding unit being accommodated at a first accommodating position in the main body and being capable of being moved, independently from the photosensitive member, to a first removal position that is separate from the first accommodating position in the first removal direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.