Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKyocera Mita Corporation
InventorSatoru YONEMOTO
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Abstract
An color image forming apparatus 1 has photosensitive units 5 and developing units 6 that can be drawn out of an apparatus main body along a direction of a photosensitive drum 15 and has an intermediate transfer unit 7 that can be drawn out of the apparatus main body along a moving direction of an intermediate transfer belt 10. The color image forming apparatus 1 includes a pressing release mechanism 41 that releases pressing against the photosensitive drum 15 by a primary transfer roller 8 in conjunction with operation required at time of drawing out any of the photosensitive unit 5, the developing unit 6, and the intermediate transfer unit 7.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising in an apparatus main body:
- a photosensitive unit having a photosensitive drum on which a toner image is formed;
- a developing unit supplying a toner to the photosensitive unit;
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- an intermediate transfer unit having:
- an intermediate belt onto which the toner image on the photosensitive unit is transferred, and a primary transfer roller pressing the intermediate transfer belt against the photosensitive unit,
- wherein at least one of the photosensitive unit and the developing unit can be drawn out of the apparatus main body along an axial direction of the photosensitive drum, and the intermediate transfer unit can be drawn out of the apparatus main body along a moving direction of the intermediate transfer unit, and
- wherein a pressing release mechanism is provided which releases the pressing against the photosensitive drum by the primary transfer roller in conjunction with operation required at time of drawing out any of the photosensitive unit, the developing unit, and the intermediate transfer unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.