Patent ID: 8757792

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a body; a conveyance belt looped around at least two rotation members for circulation to convey a sheet of recording media in a vertical direction; an image forming device disposed opposing the conveyance belt to form images on the sheet at a first side of the conveyance belt opposing the image forming device; a guide disposed below the conveyance belt to guide the sheet to the first side of the conveyance belt; a charging unit including a charger to charge the conveyance belt, the charger being disposed inside the guide and upstream in a direction in which the sheet is conveyed by the first side of the conveyance belt; an openable cover pivotable between a closed position to cover an internal area of the body including the charger and an open position to open the internal area to an outside of the body; and a unit-interlocked moving device to, with a pivoting movement of the openable cover from the closed position to the open position, move the charging unit toward a removable position at which the charging unit is removable from the body with the openable cover placed at the open position, wherein the unit-interlocked moving device is disposed at each end of the guide in a width direction of the sheet passing the guide, wherein the unit-interlocked moving device has a slider guide member fixed at the body at a position adjacent to the each end of the guide and a link unit disposed between the slider guide member and the charging unit to link the slider guide member and the charging unit, wherein the slider guide member has a groove formed along a horizontal and longitudinal direction of the slider guide member and the link unit has a slider slidably engaging the groove of the slider guide member and the charging unit, and wherein with the pivoting movement of the openable cover from the closed position to the open position, the charging unit slides horizontally along a length of the groove of the slider guide member.