US 2018/0120763 A1Published application

Image forming apparatus

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsHiroki Takano, Tomofumi Kawamura, Shoichi Zensai

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Abstract

An apparatus includes an opening/closing member that opens/closes space which is provided in an apparatus body and in which a first unit and a second unit are accommodated; a first guide portion that guides the first unit in the space; a second guide portion that guides the second unit in the space; and a slope member that is capable of guiding the first unit to the first guide portion provided at a position higher than a position of the second guide portion in a height direction orthogonal to an inserting/extracting direction of the space when the opening/closing member is put in an open position, the slope member being coupled between the apparatus body and the opening/closing member so as to be positioned in the space when the opening/closing member is put in a closed position to close the space.

Claims14

Dependent claims

An image forming apparatus comprising:

an apparatus body;
a first unit and a second unit that are configured to be attachable/detachable to/from the apparatus body;
an opening/closing member that opens/closes space which is provided in the apparatus body and in which the first unit and the second unit are accommodated;
a first guide portion that is provided in the apparatus body and guides the first unit in the space;
a second guide portion that is provided in the apparatus body and guides the second unit in the space;
and
a slope member that is capable of guiding the first unit to the first guide portion provided at a position higher than a position of the second guide portion in a height direction orthogonal to an inserting/extracting direction of the space when the opening/closing member is put in an open position, the slope member being coupled between the apparatus body and the opening/closing member so as to be positioned in the space when the opening/closing member is put in a closed position to close the space.

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An image forming apparatus comprising:

an apparatus body;
a first unit that is configured to be attachable/detachable to/from the apparatus body;
a second unit that is configured to be attachable/detachable to/from the apparatus body;
a first guide portion that is provided in the apparatus body and guides the first unit to a first attachment position of the apparatus body;
and
a second guide portion that is provided in the apparatus body and guides the second unit to a second attachment position of the apparatus body, wherein
the first guide portion and the second guide portion are different in height in a vertical direction of the apparatus body.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/794,284Filed 26 Oct 2017
Priority: JP 2016-2144891 Nov 2016
Published: 3 May 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G03G 21/1842
Means for handling the process cartridge in the apparatus body: for guiding and mounting the process cartridge, positioning, alignment, locks
G03G 15/0865
Arrangements for preparing, mixing, supplying or dispensing developer: arrangements for supplying new developer
G03G 21/1633
Means to access the interior of the apparatus: using doors or covers
G03G 21/1821
Having a submodular arrangement: means for connecting the different parts of the process cartridge, e.g. attachment, positioning of parts with…