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US 12,166,928 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus with hardware keys provided on a back surface of an operating portion
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHirohisa Sawada
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion configured to form an image on a sheet; and an operating portion including a display screen which includes at least numeric keys, a start key configured to cause the image forming portion to start image formation, and a stop key configured to stop the image formation by the image forming portion, and including a hardware key provided on a back side of the display screen and configured to start a maintenance mode of the image forming apparatus.
Claims12
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming portion configured to form an image on a sheet;
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- an operating portion including a display screen provided on a front surface of the operating portion, and a plurality of hardware keys provided on a back surface of the operating portion, the plurality of hardware keys including a hardware key for performing an operation when the image forming apparatus is in a maintenance mode, the display screen being configured to receive an input by touch operation, and the display screen including a first edge and a second edge shorter than the first edge, with the second edge being perpendicular to the first edge,
- wherein the plurality of hardware keys provided on the back surface of the operating portion are provided in a direction along the second edge.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.