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Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Casio Electronics Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Tetsushi Kurokawa

Noriki Ono

Toshihiko Numazu

Masaru Sato

Yasuhiro Tsuyuki

Shigeru Hirosawa

Seiji Tachibana

Kazuhiro Kameyama

Eiichi Nara

An upper body which can be shifted from and toward a lower body through a link mechanism is formed. A drum unit and a toner unit are arranged on the side of the upper body. The upper body is opened in the parallel with respect to the lower body with a predetermined interval, by the link mechanism including arms. In the state where the upper body is opened, the drum unit and the toner unit can be detached from and attached to the printer device in frontward and backward directions, by sliding a sliding member arranged on the upper body.

Printer device

An apparatus for cleaning an endless belt, on both side end portions of the inner peripheral surface of which a pair of belt-shaped side stoppers are provided, includes a blade pressed against the outer peripheral surface of the belt and a backup roller. At both side end surfaces of the roller, assistant support rollers are provided to support the both side stoppers to prevent the both side end portions of the belt from moving inward to separate from the blade by a pressure applied from the blade. An image forming apparatus having such a belt cleaning apparatus includes a plurality of image carrying bodies arranged side by side along the belt, a plurality of toner image developer for developing images on the carrying bodies by toner, and a plurality of transfer units for transferring the developed toner images on the image carrying bodies to a paper sheet transferred by the belt.

Belt cleaning apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same

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Tokyo, Japan

Tetsushi Kurokawa