Image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasushi NAKAMURA, Osamu KAWATA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus comprises an image reading portion, and an operation unit having at least a touch panel display is provided in a front side of the image reading portion. A housing of the image reading portion has a housing projection portion that is projected frontward as compared with a front surface of a document pressing cover, and a power key that is a hardware key is provided on an upper surface of the housing projection portion in a back side as compared with the touch panel display and within a range of a breadth of the operation unit. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the power key from being operated carelessly, and it becomes easy to recognize a position of the power key.
Claims11
1-7. (canceled)
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image reading portion;
- an operation unit that is provided in a front side of the image reading portion, the operation unit having a touch panel display;
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- at least one of a power key and a power saving key that are hardware keys and provided on a housing of the image reading portion in a back side as compared with the touch panel display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.