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US 7,024,132 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus with substantially horizontal transport paths
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakeshi Nakaoka, Noribumi Sato, Akihito Yamauchi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming part, a transport part transporting a record medium to the image forming part and having a substantially horizontal portion, and a reverse path disposed above the transport part, having a substantially horizontal portion and adapted to reverse and return the record medium to an upstream side of the image forming part in the transport path.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming part;
- a transport part transporting a record medium to the image forming part and having a substantially horizontal portion;
- and
- a reverse path disposed above the transport portion, having a substantially horizontal part and adapted to reverse and return the record medium to an upstream side of the image forming part in the transport path,
- wherein the apparatus comprises an opening part provided on an upper side of the image forming part and an image forming unit at least having an intermediate transfer body, and the image forming unit is attached and detached through the opening part, and
- wherein the apparatus further comprises a first unit forming the transport path and the reverse path and a second unit forming the reverse path with the first unit and provided with a discharge part for discharging the record medium, and the first unit and the second unit are selectively moved.
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An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image bearing member;
- a plurality of developing units for developing a latent image written to the image bearing member into a toner image;
- an intermediate transfer device in which the toner image of the image bearing member is transferred in a primary transfer position, and the toner image transferred at the primary transfer position is transported to a secondary transfer position;
- a record medium feeder that feeds a record medium;
- a secondary transfer section that secondary-transfers the toner image from the intermediate transfer device to the record medium;
- a fixing device that fixes the toner image transferred to the record medium;
- a record medium transport part having the record medium feeder, the secondary transfer section and the fixing device;
- a transport path disposed above the record medium transport and substantially parallel to the record medium transport part;
- a discharge part disposed above the transport path, to which the record medium is discharged;
- a reversing section disposed above the transport path that reverses the record medium;
- and
- a reverse path for transporting the record medium reversed by the reversing section toward the record medium transport part,
- wherein the record medium transport part is disposed above the image bearing member, the plurality of developing units and the intermediate transfer device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.