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US 6,697,586 B2Granted
Photoconductor unit and image forming system
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsMasashi Yamamoto, Toru Miyasaka, Masaru Nakano, Akira Shimada, Kenji Mori, Akira Sasaki, Kazuhiro Wakamatsu
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Abstract
An image forming system including multiple photoconductors arranged in a line extending in a vertical direction and forming one body as one unit, and multiple development devices and multiple exposure devices arranged on one side of the line of the multiple photoconductors. An image is transferred to a recording medium on an other side of the line of the multiple photoconductors.
Claims3
An image forming system comprising
- multiple photoconductors arranged in a line extending in a vertical direction and forming one body as one unit;
- and
- multiple development devices and multiple exposure devices arranged on one side of the line of said multiple photoconductors;
- wherein an image is transferred to a recording medium on an other side of the line of said multiple photoconductors;
- and
- wherein said multiple photoconductors are provided so as to be detachable as said one unit on said image forming system.
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An image forming system comprising:
- multiple photoconductors arranged in a line extending in a vertical direction and forming one body as one unit;
- and
- multiple development devices and multiple exposure devices arranged on one side of the line of said multiple photoconductors;
- wherein an image is transferred to a recording medium on an other side of the line of said multiple photoconductors;
- wherein a form cassette arranged below the line of said multiple photoconductors;
- and
- wherein said multiple exposure devices have pathways and said multiple development devices are detachable through adjacent pathways of said multiple exposure devices in a direction of said pathways of said multiple exposure devices.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.