Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTomohito Nakagawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a unit which can be inserted into the apparatus main body, a locking device which locks the unit to the apparatus main body when the unit is in a predetermined inserted state in the apparatus main body, and a protrusion member which protrudes from an outer surface of the unit or from an outer surface of the apparatus main body in a state in which the unit is inserted into the apparatus main body but not locked to the apparatus main body by the locking device.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus which forms an image on a sheet, comprising:
- an apparatus main body;
- a unit which can be inserted into the apparatus main body;
- a locking device which locks the unit to the apparatus main body when the unit is in a predetermined inserted state in the apparatus main body;
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- a protrusion member which protrudes from an outer surface of the unit or from an outer surface of the apparatus main body in a state in which the unit is inserted into the apparatus main body but not locked to the apparatus main body by the locking device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.