Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.

Yuya Tamura

Takehiro Ishidate

Toshiki Momoka

Hitoshi Iwai

Shinichiro Hosoi

Daisuke Aruga

Shinichiro Kaikawa

Yuta Okada

Takatsugu Nakamura

Jianxun Xie

Chiaki Yoshiwara

Naruhiko Ito

In an image forming apparatus including an optical print head, a length of a cable from a regulating portion to a connecting portion in a state where the connecting portion is connected to a connector is set to a length that enables the connector to be located on a front side of an opening when the optical print head moves to a pull-out position in the state where the connecting portion is connected to the connector.

Image forming apparatus including optical print head

An image forming apparatus includes a drum unit, an optical print head, a moving mechanism, a moving mechanism supporting member, a main assembly, a flexible flat cable, a first cover portion made of a resin material and provided in the supporting member so as to cover a first portion of a cutting plane of the opening, the first portion opposing one surface of the flexible flat cable, and a second cover portion made of a resin material and provided in the supporting member so as to cover a second portion of the cutting plane of the opening, the second portion opposing the other surface of the flexible flat cable.

An image forming apparatus that includes a cover. By rotation of the cover from a closed position toward an open position, a pressing portion urges a portion-to-be-urged, and a slidable portion is slid (moved) from one end side toward the other end side with respect to a rotational axis direction of a photosensitive drum by the urging, so that an optical print head moves from an exposure position toward a retracted position.

An image forming apparatus includes a cover pivotable on a body to close an opening at a closed position and open the opening at an open position, first and second replacement units having photosensitive drums, an optical print head pivotable in one direction, a spring, and a stopper. The spring applies, to the optical print head, a force for allowing the optical print head to pivot toward the one direction so that a movement of the optical print head with a pivotal movement of the cover from the open position to the closed position is prevented from being inhibited by the first developing cartridge. The optical print head, having the force applied the optical print head by the spring, so that movement of the optical print head with pivotal movement of the cover from the open to the closed position is prevented from being inhibited by the second developing cartridge.

An image forming apparatus includes a drum cartridge including a photosensitive drum, a movable optical print head including a light emitting element and a lens array, and a portion-to-be-contacted. The photosensitive drum and a light emergent surface of the lens array are spaced from each other to permit insertion of a cleaning member therebetween from an outside of the main assembly. The portion-to-be-contacted provided in a main assembly and configured to be contacted by the cleaning member to prevent further insertion of said cleaning member after said cleaning member cleans said light emergent surface by sliding on the light emergent surface from one end side toward the other end side of the light emergent surface with respect to a longitudinal direction of said lens array.

In an image forming apparatus, a coverrotates from an open position to a closed position, so that an urging portionurges a first portion-to-be-urged, and a slidable portionmoves from a rear side toward a front side. By this, an optical print headmoves from a retracted position toward an exposure position. Thereafter, when the coverfurther rotates, the urging portionmoves from the first portion-to-be-urgedonto a second portion-to-be-urgedand moves on the second portion-to-be-urged. By this, the slidable portionand link portions-are kept in a rest state without being moved with rotation of the cover

Image forming apparatus including a moving mechanism for an optical print head

An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly, a photosensitive drum, an optical print head, a receiving portion, a portion-to-be-engaged, and a guiding portion. The guiding portion is provided between the portion-to-be-engaged and the receiving portion with an interval from both the portion-to-be-engaged and the receiving portion. The guiding portion guides movement of a cleaning member in a direction from the receiving portion toward the portion-to-be-engaged while limiting movement of the cleaning member in a direction different from the longitudinal direction of the cleaning member to engage the engaging portion with the portion-to-be-engaged.

An image forming apparatus includes a drum cartridge including a photosensitive drum, a movable optical print head including a light emitting element and a lens array, and a portion-to-be-contacted. The photosensitive drum and a light emergent surface of the lens array are spaced from each other to permit insertion of a cleaning member therebetween from outside of the main assembly. The portion-to-be-contacted is provided in the main assembly and configured to be contacted by the cleaning member to prevent further insertion of the cleaning member after the cleaning member cleans the light emergent surface by sliding on the light emergent surface from one end side toward the other end side of the light emergent surface with respect to a longitudinal direction of the lens array.

An image forming apparatus includes an optical print head, an optical print head moving mechanism, an abutting portion, a projected portion, an opposing portion, and a preventing portion provided on the projected portion so that in a state in which a drum cartridge is dismounted from a main assembly of the image forming apparatus, the preventing portion is contacted to the opposing portion by movement of the optical print head moved by the moving mechanism toward a side downstream of the exposure position with respect to the movement direction and prevents further movement of the optical print head in the movement direction and so that in a state in which the drum cartridge is mounted in the main assembly and the abutting portion contacts the drum cartridge, the preventing portion is in non-contact with the opposing portion.

A conveyance apparatus includes a separation unit configured to separate and convey a sheet, a detection unit configured to detect a floating of the sheet passing through the separation unit, and a control unit configured to stop separate conveyance by the separation unit if the detection unit detects the sheet for not less than a predetermined time and/or a predetermined count.

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Tsukuba, Japan

Yuya Tamura