Electrophotographic image forming apparatus, and image forming unit
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorYosuke Saito
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier and a charge removing portion. An electrostatic latent image is formed on the image carrier. The charge removing portion includes: a light source configured to emit light to be used for removing charge from the image carrier; a light concentrating portion configured to concentrate the light emitted from the light source on a surface of the image carrier; and a light source supporting portion formed integrally with the light concentrating portion and supporting the light source at a supporting position in which the light source and the light concentrating portion have a predetermined positional relationship.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed;
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- a charge removing portion including:
- a light source configured to emit light to be used for removing charge from the image carrier;
- a light concentrating portion configured to concentrate the light emitted from the light source on a surface of the image carrier;
- and a light source supporting portion formed integrally with the light concentrating portion and supporting the light source at a supporting position in which the light source and the light concentrating portion have a predetermined positional relationship.
An image forming unit comprising:
- an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed;
- and
- a charge removing portion including:
- a light source configured to emit light to be used for removing charge from the image carrier;
- a light concentrating portion configured to concentrate the light emitted from the light source on a surface of the image carrier;
- and a light source supporting portion formed integrally with the light concentrating portion and supporting the light source at a supporting position in which the light source and the light concentrating portion have a predetermined positional relationship.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.