Patent ID: 8488991
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming device comprising: a housing; a conveying belt that is mounted in the housing and that is configured to convey a recording medium thereon; and the conveying belt having an upper surface; a retaining member that retains a plurality of image bearing members such that the image bearing members are juxtaposed with one another and arranged spaced apart from one another, the retaining member being slidingly movable relative to the housing in a direction that the image bearing members are juxtaposed; and a plurality of developing agent containing units that is provided in one to one correspondence with the plurality of image bearing members and that contains developing agent therein, the retaining member retaining the image bearing members such that the image bearing members confront the conveying belt in a reference direction, the reference direction being perpendicular to the upper surface of the conveying belt, an image bearing member side and a conveying belt side being defined along the reference direction such that the image bearing members are located on the image bearing member side and the conveying belt is located on the conveying belt side with respect to the reference direction, the image bearing members being configured to form images on the recording medium that is conveyed by the conveying belt, the retaining member including: the guide unit and the cleaning member being arranged to confront each other in the reference direction such that the guide unit is located on the image bearing member side and the cleaning member is located on the conveying belt side with respect to the reference direction, at least part of the guide unit overlapping at least part of the cleaning member when projected in the reference direction, wherein the retaining member further includes a waste developing agent accommodating unit that is configured to accommodate therein the developing agent collected by the cleaning member, and wherein one of the developing agent containing units is integrally provided with the waste developing agent accommodating unit.