Image forming apparatus having common guide members for detachably attaching a developing unit and a carrier unit
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorToshiyuki Mae
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus including a plurality of image making units each including a carrier unit and a developing unit, the carrier unit having an image carrier for forming a latent image thereon, the developing unit having a developing device configured to develop the latent image formed on a respective one of the image carriers into a toner image, and a plurality of common guide members each configured to guide a respective one of the developing units in one of the plurality of image making units and a respective one of the carrier units in another one of the plurality of image making units when the plurality of image making units are attached to or detached from the image forming apparatus.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of image making units each including a carrier unit and a developing unit, the carrier unit having an image carrier for forming a latent image thereon, the developing unit having a developing device configured to develop the latent image formed on a respective one of the image carriers into a toner image;
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- a plurality of common guide members each configured to guide a respective one of the developing units in one of the plurality of image making units and a respective one of the carrier units in another one of the plurality of image making units when the plurality of image making units are attached to or detached from the image forming apparatus.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of image making units each including a carrier unit and a developing unit, the carrier unit having an image carrier for forming a latent image thereon, the developing unit having a developing device configured to develop the latent image formed on a respective one of the image carriers into a toner image;
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- common guiding means for guiding a respective one of the developing units in one of the plurality of image making units and a respective one of the carrier units in another one of the plurality of image making units when the plurality of image making units are attached to or detached from the image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.