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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2015
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Hayakawa, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a driving unit and a circuit board. The driving unit includes a motor mount section to overlap a first image forming unit of plural image forming units in a rotation-axis direction of photoconductors, and has plural motors that drive the plural photoconductors and plural developing devices forming the image forming units, the intermediate transfer body, and the fixing device, in an assigned manner; and a driving-force transmission section to overlap the other image forming units in the rotation-axis direction, and has a driving-force transmission mechanism that transmits a driving force to the photoconductors and the developing devices forming the other image forming units. The circuit board has a circuit component that controls electric power for operating the driving unit, and is arranged to avoid overlapping the motor mount section and overlap the driving-force transmission section in the rotation-axis direction.