Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushki Kaisha
InventorsMiho Kaida, Takeshi Takagi
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Abstract
The invention provides an image forming apparatus including an image forming portion for forming an image, an image reading portion for reading an image, displaceable with respect to the image forming portion, and an open/closable member that can be opened or closed with respect to a main body of the image forming portion and displaced toward the image reading portion, wherein the displacement of the open/closable member is effected in relation to the displacement of the image reading portion. In this manner the open/closable member can be opened or closed by a simple operation, without increasing the dimension of the image forming apparatus.
Claims16
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming portion for forming an image;
- an image reading portion for reading an image, wherein said image reading portion is movable with respect to said image forming portion;
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- an openable and closable member for being opened and closed with respect to a main body of said image forming portion, wherein said openable and closable member is movable toward said image reading portion,
- wherein said openable and closable member moves in relation to a movement of said image reading portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.