Image forming apparatus having ports to which USB device is attachable
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYutaka Urakawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a housing having a front section and a rear section, a user interface including a display and disposed at the front section and not at the rear section, a first port disposed at the front section within which the display is completely included, and a second port disposed at the rear section. The front and rear sections are defined by imaginarily dividing the housing in half and located opposite to each other in a front-rear direction. When a second USB device that is not a particular USB device is attached to the second port for a first USB device that is the particular USB device, cause the user interface to display a notification screen corresponding to that the second USB device is attached to the second port.
Claims14
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a housing having a front section and a rear section;
- a print engine;
- a user interface including a display, the user interface being disposed at the front section of the housing and not at the rear section;
- a controller;
- and
- two USB ports configured to receive a USB memory removably attached thereto, the two USB ports including a first port disposed at the front section within which the display is completely included, and a second port disposed at the rear section, the front section and the rear section being respective sections of the housing defined by imaginarily dividing the housing in half, where the front section and the rear section are located opposite to each other in a front-rear direction,
- wherein the second port is for a first USB device that is a particular USB device, and
- wherein the controller is configured to:
- when a second USB device that is not the particular USB device is attached to the second port, cause the user interface to display a notification screen corresponding to that the second USB device is attached to the second port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.