Patent ID: 11966180
Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a heating unit which includes a heater and is disposed with a longitudinal direction of the heating unit along a specific direction in a main body;
a fixing unit which includes a fixing member that is heated by the heater and a pressure member that biases a sheet toward the fixing member, and is disposed on one side of the heating unit with a longitudinal direction of the fixing unit along the specific direction in the main body;
a unit bias member which is an elastic member disposed on another side of the heating unit in the main body;
an action member which is disposed in the main body and is supported while being movable between a first position at which the unit bias member is sandwiched between the action member and the heating unit and a second position farther away from the fixing unit than the first position; and
a movement mechanism which includes an operation portion capable of moving by being operated, and operates in conjunction with a movement of the operation portion to cause the action member to move from one of the first position and the second position to another one of the first position and the second position,
wherein
the heating unit includes a contact portion which comes into contact with the fixing unit by a bias force received from the unit bias member when the action member is at the first position,
the contact portion comes into contact with the fixing unit to position the heating unit at a reference position,
the action member includes an engagement portion which engages with a part of the heating unit when the action member moves from the first position to the second position,
when the action member moves from the first position to the second position, the heating unit engages with the engagement portion to move from the reference position to an evacuation position farther away from the fixing unit than the reference position, and
when the heating unit is at the evacuation position, the fixing unit can be drawn out from the main body along the specific direction.