Patent ID: 8744309

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a charger facing a rotatably supported image carrier, the charger being configured to charge a surface of the image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is to be formed; a cleaning member cleaning the charger; a movement mechanism configured to move the charger between a charging position at which the charger is close to the surface of the image carrier and a retracted position at which the charger is retracted away from the surface of the image carrier; a positioning structure including a first reference member that is provided on the charger and a second reference member that is provided on the image carrier, the first reference member and the second reference member are in contact with each other when the charger is at the charging position such that the charger is held in the charging position and are spaced apart from each other when the cleaning member cleans the charger; and a pushing member configured to push the charger against the image carrier when the charger is at the charging position.