Image forming unit and image forming apparatus
AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorKen NOZAWA
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Abstract
An aspect of the invention provides an image forming unit that comprises: an image forming unit main body including an image carrier; a housing of the image forming unit main body, the housing having at least one opening having concave parts at edge parts facing each other in the opening; and a connection element suspended with fracture parts between the edge parts facing each other in the opening, the fracture parts located within the concave parts, wherein in installation of the image carrier, at least a part of the connection element corresponding to the image carrier is removed from the fracture parts.
Claims18
An image forming unit comprising:
- an image forming unit main body including an image carrier;
- a housing of the image forming unit main body, the housing having at least one opening having concave parts at edge parts facing each other in the opening;
- and
- a connection element suspended with fracture parts between the edge parts facing each other in the opening, the fracture parts located within the concave parts, wherein
- in installation of the image carrier, at least a part of the connection element corresponding to the image carrier is removed from the fracture parts.
An image forming unit comprising:
- a first opening through which a developer is supplied from a developer container and having a pair of first opening sides facing each other;
- a second opening through which light emitted by an exposure device is received to expose a photosensitive drum and having a pair of second opening sides facing each other;
- a third opening through which a developer image formed on the photosensitive drum is transferred onto a medium and having a pair of third opening sides facing each other;
- wherein
- at least one of the first, second, and third openings has a connection element connecting its pair of sides facing each other, wherein
- the connection element is connected to the sides in concave parts formed in the sides.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.