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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2006
Applicant:
Shinichiroh Naruse, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Inventor:
Shinichiroh Naruse, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 25/308 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a removable image forming unit including at least a carriage having an ink jet head, and a recording medium conveyance member, and includes a gap adjustment mechanism including a carriage travel lever unit having first and second levers separably engaged with each other. The second lever includes an operation part for, in gearing with the first lever, causing the carriage to vertically travel so that a gap between the ink jet head and a sheet on the recording medium conveyance member is adjusted.