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US07720409B2 Image forming apparatus having lowered image forming position and recessed sheet stacking portion 有权
图像形成装置具有降低的图像形成位置和凹进的片材堆叠部分

Image forming apparatus having lowered image forming position and recessed sheet stacking portion
Abstract:
In a printer, a scanner unit is formed into a taper shape having a thinner thickness on a side of a pick-up roller in a removing direction of a process unit, to allow the process unit to be removed from the printer. A part of a sheet feeding path is formed in an area between the process unit and a sheet cassette. An image forming position on the sheet feed path is set lower than an upper end of the pick-up roller. Thus, removal of the process unit can be readily performed. Further, the height of the printer at a position of the pick-up roller can be reduced as compared with a case where the scanner unit is not formed into a taper shape.
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