Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorHiroyuki Harada
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a scanner device and an image forming apparatus body to which the scanner device is attached. The scanner device has a document inlet and a document outlet respectively formed in mutually opposed surfaces thereof, and is configured to read an image of a document fed thereinto through the document inlet and discharge the document through the document outlet. The scanner device is detachably attached to a top surface of the image forming apparatus body. The top surface of the image forming apparatus body functions as a guide surface guiding the document when the scanner device is used.
Claims3
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a scanner device having a document inlet and a document outlet respectively formed in mutually opposed surfaces thereof, the scanner device being configured to read an image of a document fed thereinto through the document inlet and discharge the document through the document outlet;
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- an image forming apparatus body to which the scanner device is attached,
- wherein:
- the scanner device is detachably attached to a top surface of the image forming apparatus body;
- the scanner device is rotatable between two side surfaces of the image forming apparatus body about an axis vertical to the top surface of the image forming apparatus body on a fulcrum provided at a corner of the top surface of the image forming apparatus body in a state of being attached to the top surface of the image forming apparatus body, the two side surfaces of the image forming apparatus body being perpendicular to each other with the corner of the top surface therebetween as viewed in plan view;
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- the top surface of the image forming apparatus body functions as a guide surface guiding the document when the scanner device is used.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.