Image Forming Apparatus Having Wireless Communication Device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasuhiro Asai
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a communication board, and a display device. The housing has an upper end portion, a front end portion, and a rear end portion. The front end portion and the rear end portion define a frontward/rearward direction. The communication board is provided on the upper end portion and includes an antenna for near field wireless communication. The display device is provided on the upper end portion. The display device and the antenna are arrayed on a straight line extending in the frontward/rearward direction such that the antenna is positioned frontward of the display device.
Claims19
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a housing having an upper end portion, a front end portion, and a rear end portion, the front end portion and the rear end portion defining a frontward/rearward direction;
- a sheet tray attached to the housing and drawable frontward from the front end portion, the sheet tray being configured to accommodate a sheet;
- an image forming unit disposed in the housing and configured to print an image on the sheet supplied from the sheet tray;
- a communication board provided on the upper end portion and comprising an antenna for near field wireless communication;
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- a display device provided on the upper end portion, the display device and the antenna being arrayed on a straight line extending in the frontward/rearward direction such that the antenna is closer to the front end than the display device,
- wherein the housing further comprises a discharge port configured to discharge therefrom the sheet on which the image has been formed, and
- wherein the upper end portion has a part serving as a receiving portion configured to accommodate the sheet discharged from the discharge port, the display device and the antenna being provided on the upper end portion other than the receiving portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.