IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

• Main Authors: MIZUTANI NAOKI, ONISHI SHOTA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 22.08.2019
• Subjects: CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS

To provide an image forming apparatus comprising a first attachment part to which a waste toner container is attached and a second attachment part to which a spare waste toner container is attached, and avoid a situation in which the spare waste toner container is unintentionally removed and taken out to the outside of an apparatus body before an operation to replace the waste toner container attached to the first attachment part is performed.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus comprises: a binding member 61 that binds a spare waste toner container 30B attached to a second attachment part in an unremovable manner; and releasing means (60) that, when a waste toner container 30A attached to a first attachment part is removed, releases the binding of the spare waste toner container 30B performed by the binding member 61.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5 【課題】廃トナー容器が装着される第１装着部と、予備の廃トナー容器が装着される第２装着部とを備えた画像形成装置において、第１装着部に装着された廃トナー容器の交換作業を行う前に、予備の廃トナー容器が意図せずに取り外されて装置本体外に持ち出されるのを回避しようとすることにある。【解決手段】画像形成装置は、第２装着部に装着された予備の廃トナー容器３０Ｂを取外し不能に拘束する拘束部材６１と、第１装着部に装着された廃トナー容器３０Ａが取外されると拘束部材６１による予備の廃トナー容器３０Ｂの拘束を解除する解除手段（６０）と、を備える。【選択図】図５