US 12,222,672 B2
Image forming apparatus with a transfer device
Chikara Imaizumi, Shizuoka (JP); Satoshi Murasaki, Shizuoka (JP); Kiyoshi Furuta, Shizuoka (JP); Shinya Noda, Shizuoka (JP); Kunihiro Niwa, Shizuoka (JP); Yoji Misao, Shizuoka (JP); Tomooku Koyama, Shizuoka (JP); Tomoki Katafuchi, Shizuoka (JP); Tomonari Inoue, Kanagawa (JP); and Koichi Sekimizu, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/465,788.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-145890 (JP), filed on Sep. 14, 2022; and application No. 2023-125134 (JP), filed on Jul. 31, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0085849 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/16 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/1647 (2013.01) [G03G 21/168 (2013.01); G03G 21/1685 (2013.01); G03G 2221/1869 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording material, the image forming apparatus comprising:
a base substrate;
an apparatus main body;
a drawer unit including (i) a first cartridge, (ii) a support member to which the first cartridge is detachably attached, (iii) a first photosensitive drum disposed on the support member or the first cartridge, and (iv) a first developing roller disposed on the support member or the first cartridge, wherein the drawer unit is configured to be moved to a first inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a first outer position outside the apparatus main body; and
a transfer device including a belt, wherein the transfer device is configured to be moved to a second inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a second outer position outside the apparatus main body, and the belt is configured to contact the first photosensitive drum with the transfer device at the second inner position, and
wherein the transfer device is configured to be moved from the second inner position to the second outer position when the drawer unit is moved from the first inner position to the first outer position.