Image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsLei YUAN, Kazuaki IIKURA, Kaoru WATANABE, Kazuhiro SAITO
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that is rotatably supported, a to-be-transferred member onto which an image that is held by the image carrier is transferred, a driving unit that is disposed on a first end portion of the image carrier in an axial direction of the image carrier and that causes the image carrier to rotate, and a retreat mechanism that causes a second end portion of the image carrier to be separated from the to-be-transferred member while a connection between the image carrier and the driving unit is maintained and thereafter causes the image carrier to retreat by disconnecting the image carrier and the driving unit from each other.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image carrier that is rotatably supported;
- a to-be-transferred member onto which an image that is held by the image carrier is transferred;
- a driving unit that is disposed on a first end portion of the image carrier in an axial direction of the image carrier and that causes the image carrier to rotate;
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- a retreat mechanism that causes a second end portion of the image carrier to be separated from the to-be-transferred member such that the second end portion is at a position lower that a position of the first end portion;
- while a connection between the image carrier and the driving unit is maintained, and thereafter causes the image carrier to retreat by disconnecting the image carrier and the driving unit from each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.