| US 7,567,769 B2 | ||
| Electrophotographic color image forming apparatus | ||
| Tomio Noguchi, Shizuoka-ken (Japan); Hiromi Sakurai, Susono (Japan); Chikara Imaizumi, Numazu (Japan); and Takeo Kawanami, Mishima (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 17, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/624,024. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2006-355652 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2006. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0159781 A1, Jul. 03, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 399—110 [399/112] | 11 Claims |
| 1. A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus having a main assembly, to which a process cartridge is detachably
mountable, for forming a color image on a recording material, wherein the process cartridge includes an electrophotographic
photosensitive drum and process means actable on the electrophotographic photosensitive drum, said apparatus comprising:
an opening provided in said main assembly of the apparatus;
a movable member which is linearly movable between an inside and an outside of said opening in a direction crossing with a
longitudinal direction of the electrophotographic photosensitive drum while carrying a plurality of such process cartridges;
an accommodating portion for accommodating the process cartridges; and
an urging member, provided above a movement path of the process cartridges, while being carried on said movable member, from
said opening to said accommodating portion, for contacting the process cartridge passing therebelow to urge the process cartridge
toward said movable member.
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