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US 7,257,350 B2Granted
Cleaning unit with a light beam path for the passage of a light beam
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsMasanori Saito, Nobuyuki Yanagawa
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Abstract
A two-station type color image forming apparatus of the present invention includes intermediate members configured to support only a developing device or the developing device and image forming means other than an image carrier. The intermediate members are selectively locked to or unlocked from the body of the image forming apparatus. Members constituting the image forming means each can be simply replaced alone in accordance with its life.
Claims21
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a developing unit for developing a latent image formed on an image carrier to produce a corresponding toner image;
- an image transfer body to which the toner image is transferred from said image carrier;
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- a cleaning unit for cleaning said image carrier after transfer of the toner image, wherein said cleaning unit is removably mounted to said image forming apparatus and formed with a light beam path for the passage of a light beam, which is emitted from a latent image forming unit for forming the latent image on said image carrier to be incident on said image carrier.
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