Image forming apparatus having a transfer material carrier unit or an intermediate transfer body unit
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakao Sameshima, Takashi Kimura
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus including an image carrier unit having an image carrier for carrying an image and a transfer material carrier unit having a transfer material carrier for carrying a transfer material, the transfer material carrier unit being capable of assuming a first state when the image on the image carrier is transferred onto a transfer material carried by the transfer material carrier and a second state that the transfer material carrier unit escapes more than the first state. The image carrier unit is detachably attached to an apparatus body through a space formed in the apparatus body after the transfer material carrier unit enters in the second state.
Claims58
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image carrier unit having an image carrier for carrying an image;
- and
- a transfer material carrier unit having a transfer material carrier for carrying a transfer material, the transfer material carrier unit taking a first state when the image on the image carrier is transferred onto the transfer material carried by the transfer material carrier and a second state in which the transfer material carrier unit is away from the image carrier unit more than in the first state,
- wherein the image carrier unit is detachably attached to an apparatus body through a space formed in the apparatus body after the transfer material carrier unit take the second state.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image carrier unit having an image carrier carrying an image;
- and
- an intermediate transfer body unit having an intermediate transfer body, the intermediate transfer body unit taking a first state when the image on the image carrier is transferred onto the intermediate transfer body and a second state in which the intermediate transfer body unit is away from the image carrier unit more than when taking the first state,
- wherein the image on the intermediate transfer body is transferred to a transfer material, and
- wherein the image carrier unit is detachably attached to an apparatus body through a space formed in the apparatus body after the intermediate transfer body unit takes the second state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.