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US 12,092,971 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorTatsuya Katagiri
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a main body that forms an image on a sheet; and a removable unit that is attachable and removable to and from the main body, wherein the removable unit includes a first unit attachable to an outside of the main body, and is packable separately from the main body in a state removed from the main body.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a main body that forms an image on a sheet;
- and
- a removable unit that is attachable and removable to and from the main body,
- wherein
- the removable unit is attachable to an outside of the main body, and is packable separately from the main body in a state removed from the main body, the removable unit includes at least one of a toner bottle unit that supplies toner to a large capacity hopper unit of the main body, a sheet introduction guide unit, or a sheet discharge guide unit, wherein the sheet introduction guide unit is for introducing a roll sheet and the sheet discharge guide unit is for discharging a roll sheet, and wherein the image forming apparatus is capable of forming an image with the removable unit being attached to the main body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.