Image forming apparatus including a removable unit
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoya Kikkawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus including a photosensitive drum unit (photosensitive unit) including a photosensitive body, a fixing unit for fixing a toner image transferred from the photosensitive body onto a recording material, and a vertical conveying path for conveying the recording material between the photosensitive drum unit and the fixing unit. Rails (guiding members) for guiding the removable photosensitive drum unit in a longitudinal direction are provided on the fixing unit. The rails are constituted of resin material capable of blocking heat transmitted towards the photosensitive drum unit.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a first unit including an image bearing member, the first unit being detachably mountable to the image forming apparatus;
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- a second unit including a fixing device positioned and configured to fix a toner image on a recording material, transferred from the image bearing member, the second unit being disposed on an upper side of the first unit;
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- a conveying path to convey the recording material from the first unit to the second unit,
- wherein the second unit includes a guiding member configured and positioned to guide the first unit during mounting and dismounting of the first unit when the second unit is mounted to the image forming apparatus.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- first supporting means for supporting an image bearing means for bearing an image, the first supporting means being detachably mountable to the image forming apparatus;
- second supporting means for supporting fixing means for fixing a toner image;
- on a recording material transferred from the image bearing means, the second supporting means being detachably mountable to the image forming apparatus and being disposed on an upper side of the first supporting means;
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- a conveying path to covey the recording material from the first supporting means to the second supporting means,
- wherein the second supporting means includes guiding means for guiding the first supporting means during mounting and dismounting of the first supporting means when the second supporting means is mounted to the image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.