US 7,603,056 B2
Image forming device
Naoya Kamimura, Nagoya (Japan)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken (Japan)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/554,699.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-346606 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0122186 A1, May 31, 2007
Int. Cl. G03G 21/18 (2006.01); G03G 21/10 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 399—110  [399/123; 399/124; 399/125; 399/358; 399/359; 399/360] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming device comprising:
a main unit case;
a process unit which is configured to be attached to and detached from the main unit case;
a belt unit which is configured to displace between an opposed position and an opened position, the belt unit in the opposed position being opposed to the process unit, the belt unit in the opened position allowing the process unit to be exposed in the direction of removing the process unit from the main unit case;
a belt which is provided on the belt unit and which is rotatingly driven;
a belt cleaning unit which is fixedly attached to the belt unit and which removes material adhered to the belt;
a storing unit which is fixedly attached to the main unit case and which stores therein the material removed from the belt by the belt cleaning unit; and
a duct unit which has a conveying path in fluid communication with the belt cleaning unit and the storing unit, and which conveys, along the conveying path, the material removed by the belt cleaning unit from the belt cleaning unit to the storing unit.