Invention Grant
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
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus having lowered image forming position and recessed sheet stacking portion
- Patent Title (中): 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
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Application No.: US12076641Application Date: 2008-03-20
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Publication No.: US07720409B2Publication Date: 2010-05-18
- Inventor: Sakae Ito , Shusaku Tsusaka , Yasuo Tamaru , Tomitake Aratachi , Terumasa Ito
- Applicant: Sakae Ito , Shusaku Tsusaka , Yasuo Tamaru , Tomitake Aratachi , Terumasa Ito
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya
- Agency: Oliff & Berridge, PLC
- Priority: JP2004-105504 20040331
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/16

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080175637A1 Image forming apparatus Public/Granted day:2008-07-24
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