Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus having lowered image forming position and recessed sheet stacking portion
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Application No.: US12314373Application Date: 2008-12-09
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Publication No.: US08417177B2Publication Date: 2013-04-09
- 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

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
- US08041288B2 Image forming apparatus having lowered image forming position and recessed sheet stacking portion Public/Granted day:2011-10-18
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