Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takahiro Miyoshi

Tachio Kawai

Shunsuke Uratani

Shunsuke Hijikata

Masatoshi Takiguchi

An image forming apparatus includes a drum cartridge and developing cartridge, which are detachably mounted to a main assembly, and an urging mechanism for urging the cartridges to position them. The urging mechanismincludes a single elastic member, a first urging member for transmitting the force of the elastic member to the drum cartridge and a second urging member for transmitting the force to the developer cartridge.

Image forming apparatus

In order to enable a main body of an image forming apparatus to selectively attach and detach a first cartridge group and a second cartridge group, a first guide for positioning the first cartridge group to the main body of the image forming apparatus and a second guide for positioning the second cartridge group to the main body of the image forming apparatus are detachably attachable to the main body of the image forming apparatus.

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Yokohama, Japan

Takahiro Miyoshi