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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkihiro Sato, Hiroaki Takagishi, Katsuhito Kato, Daisaku Kamiya
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A sheet treating apparatus is mountable in a space portion of an image forming apparatus including an image-forming portion for forming an image on a sheet and an image-reading portion for reading an image of an original. The image-reading portion is disposed above the image-forming portion. The sheet is delivered in the space portion formed between the image-forming portion and the image-reading portion. The sheet treating apparatus includes a connection path unit to be connected with a sheet delivery path for delivering the sheet from the image-forming portion, which connection path unit is mounted in the space portion from the outside of a side surface of the main body of the image forming apparatus, and a sheet-treating unit for performing a treatment of the sheet transported from the connection path unit, which sheet-treating unit is mounted in the space portion from the front side of the main body of the image forming apparatus.
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An image forming apparatus including a space portion, in which a sheet is delivered, between an image-reading portion and an image-forming portion, said image forming apparatus comprising:
An image forming apparatus including a space portion, in which a sheet is delivered, between an image-reading portion and an image-forming portion, said image forming apparatus comprising:
An image forming apparatus including a space portion, in which a sheet is delivered, above an image-forming portion, said image forming apparatus comprising:
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.