摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent lubricant from being scattered in an inside of or externally to an image forming device upon replacing a lubricant module having lubricant without a lubricant supplying member. <P>SOLUTION: An image forming device is configured such that an imaging unit is pulled out in a horizontal direction to a replacement position external to a body of the image forming device and the imaging unit can held at the replacement position. A drawing direction of a lubricant module 54 from the imaging unit is a direction in which it leaves a surface of a supply brush 52, more specifically a direction parallel to a direction in which a solid lubricant 54c is pressed against the supply brush. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |