Image-Forming Device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShougo Sato, Yasushi Okabe, Shigeharu Katayama, Yasutake Yamaguchi
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Abstract
An image-forming device has a main casing, a cartridge, and a guiding unit. The main casing has a cartridge access opening and a cartridge loading section in communication with the cartridge access opening. The cartridge access opening has an opening plane. The cartridge is detachably counted in the cartridge loading section through the cartridge access opening. The guiding unit provides a loading path to load/unload the cartridge with respect to the cartridge loading section. The guide unit is configured to orient the loading path toward a direction substantially parallel to the opening plane outside of the main casing, thereby curving a track of the cartridge.
Claims24
An image-forming device comprising:
- a main casing having a cartridge access opening and a cartridge loading section in communication with the cartridge access opening, the cartridge access opening having an opening plane;
- a cartridge that is detachably mounted in the cartridge loading section through the cartridge access opening;
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- a guiding unit that provides a loading path to load/unload the cartridge with respect to the cartridge loading section, the guide unit being configured to orient the loading path toward a direction substantially parallel to the opening plane outside of the main casing, thereby curving a track or the cartridge.
The image-forming device according to claim 12 wherein the scanner is disposed in confrontation with the cartridge access opening.
An image-forming device comprising:
- a main casing having a cartridge access opening and a cartridge loading section in communication with the cartridge access opening;
- a plurality of cartridges that are detachably mounted through the cartridge access opening and arrayed in one direction in the cartridge loading section so that one end of each cartridge faces the cartridge access opening;
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- a guiding unit that provides a loading path to load/unload each of the plurality of cartridges with respect to the cartridge Loading section, the guiding unit orienting the loading path toward the one direction out of the main casing, thereby curling a track of the each of the plurality of cartridges.
A cartridge loadable in an image-forming device, comprising
- a casing having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface by a distance, wherein the first and second surfaces have a concentric are cross-section in a loading direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.