Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hajime Tagawa

Susumu Nomura

Mamoru Shimono

Tomoyuki Asada

Taiichi Kawaguchi

Koji Yukinaga

Yoichi Taya

Kouji Yukinaga

A copying apparatus includes a housing in which are arranged an image carrier and an exposure unit both for emitting light to an original placed on the original stand to form an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier and for emitting light to the image carrier to erase the electrostatic latent image. The exposure unit includes a lamp having light emitting portions and non-light emitting portions which are alternately connected together. A reflector is located around the lamp and directs the light emitted from the lamp toward the original. The reflector has a plurality of openings formed to face the lamp, so that part of the light emitted from the lamp passes through the openings and is directed to the image carrier. The reflector has a plurality of connecting portions facing the non-light-emitting portions and located between adjacent ones of the openings.

Copying apparatus having a lamp to form or erase an image

In an image forming apparatus which tranfers a toner image to a sheet in accordance with image information, a first connector, is fixed to the outside of a developing device which supplies a developing agent to the apparatus. The first connector electrically connects the body and the developing device. A second connector, adapted to be connected to the first connector, is fixed to a mounting portion for holding the developing device in the apparatus. When the developing device is attached to the mounting portion, the first and second connectors are connected to each other. The apparatus also includes a movable handle which would or would not allow a removable lid to fully close.

Image forming apparatus

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Kawasaki, Japan

Hajime Tagawa