Image reading and printing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuyuki Morinaga
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Abstract
In a reading device part, a scan motor that moves a sensor unit relative to a document is accommodated in an accommodating portion protruding from the bottom surface of the reading device part toward a printing device part. A carriage in the printing device part and the accommodating portion are arranged so as to face each other in a direction crossing the scan direction of the carriage at the same height in the vertical direction. A flexible member connected to the carriage moves and follows the carriage on a lower side relative to the accommodating portion.
Claims11
A printing apparatus having a housing including a printing device and a reading device placed on an upper side of the printing device in a vertical direction,
- the printing device comprising:
- a carriage mounted with a printing unit capable of printing an image and configured to move reciprocally over a print medium conveyed in a first direction in a second direction crossing the first direction;
- a flexible member configured to move and follow the carriage;
- and
- a tank for containing a printing agent to be used by the printing unit, the reading device comprising:
- a sensor unit configured to read an image of an original copy;
- and
- a driving unit configured to move the sensor unit relative to the original copy,
- wherein the driving unit occupies an accommodating region protruding from a bottom surface of the reading device toward the printing device,
- part of the flexible member overlaps with the accommodating region in the first direction on a lower side of the accommodating region in the vertical direction, and
- part of the tank is located within the housing and overlaps with the accommodating region in the second direction on a lower side of the accommodating region in the vertical direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.