Patent ID: 7817174

Claim:
A direct image-recording device comprising: a housing that accommodates an image forming agent; an agent carrier that is rotatably supported by the housing, faces outside of the housing from an opening formed in the housing, and carries the image agent accommodated inside the housing; a sheet-like hole forming member having a plurality of holes formed therein and installed so as to face the agent carrier at a predetermined distance therefrom; a plurality of electrodes by which the image forming agent flies provided at the hole forming member correspondingly to each of the plurality of holes and form an electric field to cause selectively the image forming agent to fly from the agent carrier toward the holes; and a positioning member that is provided at the housing so as to cover the agent carrier that forms, on the basis of image information, an image by causing the image forming agent that is caused to fly selectively from the agent carrier to adhere, via the holes, to a recording member due to formation of the electric field, by which the image forming agent flies, the positioning member being configured to hold the hole forming member along an axial direction of the agent carrier by a side wall of the positioning member that has open portions formed in locations at least opposing the plurality of holes formed in the hole forming member, and configured to position the hole forming member relative to the agent carrier so that the relative positions of the agent carrier and the hole forming member are in a predetermined positional relationship.