Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Norio Tamada

Tatsuya Eguchi

Takayuki Ogawa

Hiroshi Mizuno

Akihito Ikegawa

Hirofumi Hasegawa

Kazuyoshi Hara

Hitoshi Sekino

Yasuhiro Matsuura

Katsuyuki Taima

Satoshi Yoshida

Katsunari Oda

Yoshio Tohyama

Isamu Odagiri

An image forming apparatus having a sheet storing unit for storing sheets therein along a bottom of a body of the apparatus, a sheet feeding mechanism for feeding the sheets stored in the sheet storing unit one by one toward a rear side of the body, a sheet path for leading each sheet fed by the sheet feeding mechanism upward, an image forming unit for forming an image on the sheet traveling in the sheet path, and a sheet ejecting unit for ejecting the image-formed sheet toward a front side of the body onto a sheet receiving portion disposed on an upper side of the body. The image forming unit is made as a cartridge containing a photosensitive member, a developing device, a transferring device and a cleaner. The cartridge is mounted in a holder which is movable between a cartridge exchange position and a set position.

Image forming apparatus

A laser beam printer having an image formation cartridge which is mounted in and dismounted from a printer body, and a light source for radiating a laser beam modulated in accordance with image data. The laser beam radiated from the light source enters the image formation cartridge from a front side of the printer body toward a rear side of the printer body. The image formation cartridge has a substantially non-reflective surface or alternatively a diffused surface around a laser beam receiving portion.

Laser beam printer

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Tondabayashi, Japan

Norio Tamada