Patent ID: 7302209

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a transferring member adapted to come into contact with the image bearing member, for static electrically transferring the toner image on the image bearing member to a recording material; a contact member contacting said transferring member; a power supply for applying a transfer voltage to said transferring member through said contact member; an apparatus main body unit including at least said image bearing member, said transferring member, said contact member, and said power supply; fixing means for fixing the toner image transferred from said image bearing member to said recording material; an opening unit including said fixing means and openable relative to said apparatus main body unit so as to open a recording material conveyance path between said transferring member and said fixing means; separating means for separating said transferring member from said image bearing member in synchronism with an opening operation of said opening unit relative to said apparatus main body unit; and disconnecting means for disconnecting said contact member from said transferring member in synchronism with the opening operation of said opening unit relative to said apparatus main body unit.