Apparatus for dorming a copy of an original image on a sheet of paper
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsMin-ho Choi, Kyung-hwan Kim, Byeong-sik Cheon, Jin-geun Kwak
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units having a photoconductive device for forming a latent image and a developing device for developing the latent image, an exposing device for exposing the photoconductive device, and a transfer device for transferring the image developed on the photoconductive device onto a sheet of paper. The apparatus is compact and performs a stable driving because the light and small exposing device and transfer device move with respect to the plurality of image forming units, thereby providing a good-quality image and facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet of paper comprising:
- a plurality of stationary image forming units, each image forming unit having a photoconductive drum for forming a latent image by exposure and a developing device for containing a respective color developer for developing the latent image, thereby providing different color developed images;
- an exposing device, movable to a selected image forming unit of said plurality of image forming units, for, at the selected image forming unit, exposing said photoconductive drum to image information;
- transfer means, movable to the selected image forming unit, for transferring an image developed on said photoconductive drum at the selected image forming unit to a sheet of paper;
- driving means for driving said exposing device and said transfer means so that said exposing device and said transfer means move together to respective image forming units;
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- paper feeding and ejecting means for feeding the sheet of paper to said transfer means and for ejecting the sheet of paper.
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet of paper comprising:
- a plurality of stationary image forming units, each image forming unit having a photoconductive drum for forming a latent image by exposure and a developing device for containing a respective color developer for developing the latent image, thereby providing different color developed images;
- an exposing device, movable to a selected image forming unit of said plurality of image forming units for, at the selected image forming unit, exposing said photoconductive drum to image information;
- transfer means, movable to the selected image forming unit, for transferring an image developed on said photoconductive drum at the selected image forming unit to a sheet of paper;
- paper feeding means for feeding the sheet of paper to said transfer means;
- paper ejecting means for ejecting the sheet of paper from said transfer means at a position to which said transfer means is moved;
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- a housing accommodating said transfer means and said paper ejecting means and moving said transfer means and said paper ejecting means to respective image forming means together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.