Patent ID: 8346123
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising an image forming apparatus body and a photosensitive unit detachably mountable to the image forming apparatus body along a prescribed direction, wherein the photosensitive unit includes: a frame; a plurality of photosensitive bodies supported by the frame in a state parallelly arranged in the prescribed direction, on which electrostatic latent images are formed; a plurality of cartridges including a developer carrier opposed to the corresponding photosensitive body and detachably mountable to the frame; and a pressing portion mounted to the frame and not to the cartridges, the pressing portion for pressing the cartridges to direct the developer carrier toward the corresponding photosensitive body, wherein each cartridge is configured to shift in the frame to a first attitude pressed by the pressing portion and a second attitude released from the press of the pressing portion and detachable from the frame, and the image forming apparatus body is provided with an abutment portion abutting the cartridge in the second attitude thereby bringing the cartridge into the first attitude when the photosensitive unit is mounted to the image forming apparatus body.