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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2004
Byeong-hwa Ahn, Seongnam-si, KR;
Se-hyun Lyu, Seoul, KR;
Byeong-hwa Ahn, Seongnam-si, KR;
Se-hyun Lyu, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus including a main body, a photoconductive unit disposed in the main body to develop an image, a transferring unit removably disposed in the main body in contact with the photoconductive unit to transfer the image from the photoconductive unit onto a recording medium, a locking/releasing unit to lock and unlock a mounting position of the transferring unit with respect to the photoconductive unit, and a checking unit to check whether the transferring unit is mounted by the locking/releasing unit. Accordingly, even if the user may inadvertently operate the image forming apparatus while not operating the locking/releasing unit so that the transferring unit and the photoconductive unit are not fixed to each other, the image forming apparatus notifies the user.
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