Patent ID: 7881635

Claim:
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer unit that is detachable from a device main body through an opening, the opening being covered by an openable and closable opening closing member with a sheet path being provided between the intermediate transfer unit and the opening closing member, and a portion of a convey-guiding unit of the sheet path falls in the way of the detachable intermediate transfer unit, wherein the portion of the convey-guiding unit is formed as a detachable convey-guiding member that is configured so as to be detachably attached to the device main body, wherein the detachable convey-guiding member can be detached in a nearly perpendicular direction with respect to a sheet direction of the sheet path, a fixed convey-guiding member that is a part of the sheet path and that is fixed to the device main body, and the detachable convey-guiding member is detachably attached to the fixed convey-guiding member.