Patent ID: 8311453
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a housing; a photosensitive member unit detachably mountable relative to said housing and which includes a photosensitive member; a transfer belt unit detachably mountable relative to said housing which includes a transfer belt member and a spacing mechanism for spacing said transfer belt member from said photosensitive member; a shaft member, provided in said housing, for supporting said photosensitive member; a guiding portion, provided on said photosensitive member unit, for guiding mounting, to said housing, of said photosensitive member unit; and a rotation regulating member, provided on said transfer belt unit, for regulating a movement of said guiding portion, in the a rotational direction, of said photosensitive member at the time of the mounting of said photosensitive unit to said housing.