Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasakatsu Yamada, Toshiyuki Takano, Yasuhiro Matsumoto
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus including: an image recording portion that records an image on a sheet; a sheet stacking portion which is provided above the image recording portion and on which the sheet delivered from the image recording portion is stacked; and an image reading portion that is provided above the sheet stacking portion and reads an image on an original, the image reading portion being disposed on a rear side so that the sheet delivered from the image recording portion onto the sheet stacking portion is partially exposed to the outside on a front side of the image reading portion.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image recording portion that records an image on a sheet;
- a sheet stacking portion which is provided above said image recording portion and on which the sheet delivered from said image recording portion is stacked;
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- an image reading portion that is provided above said sheet stacking portion and reads an image on an original,
- wherein said image reading portion is disposed on a rear side so that the sheet delivered from said image recording portion onto said sheet stacking portion is partially exposed to the outside on a front side of said image reading portion.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image recording portion that records an image on a sheet;
- a sheet stacking portion which is provided above said image recording portion and on which the sheet delivered from said image recording portion is stacked;
- an image reading portion that is provided above said sheet stacking portion and reads an image on an original;
- an operation portion, which is provided on a front side of said image reading portion and on an upstream side with respect to a direction in which the sheet is delivered to said sheet stacking portion, for performing operations on said image recording portion and said image reading portion;
- a first circuit board disposed inside said image forming apparatus and below said operation portion;
- a second circuit board disposed on a front side inside said image forming apparatus and below said operation portion;
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- a first connecting member that is provided on the front side inside said image forming apparatus and electrically connects said first circuit board to said second circuit board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.