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US 2019/0377283 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazushi Suzuki, Takeshi Sugita, Tamotsu Kaneko, Hisahiro Saito, Yoichiro Maebashi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is capable of being attached with a toner supply container. The toner supply container stores a toner that is to be supplied to a developing portion. An attachment location of the toner supply container is below a light scanning portion in a vertical direction.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a photosensitive member;
- a light scanning portion that is disposed below the photosensitive member in a vertical direction and scans the photosensitive member with a beam corresponding to image information;
- a developing portion that develops an electrostatic latent image formed on the photosensitive member by using a toner;
- an intermediate transfer belt that is disposed above the photosensitive member in the vertical direction and onto which a toner image formed on the photosensitive member is transferred;
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- a sheet tray that is disposed above the intermediate transfer belt in the vertical direction and receives a sheet output from inside the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus transferring the toner image transferred on the intermediate transfer belt onto a sheet and then outputting the sheet onto the sheet tray,
- wherein the image forming apparatus is capable of being attached with a toner supply container, the toner supply container storing a toner to be supplied to the developing portion, and
- wherein an attachment location of the toner supply container is below the light scanning portion in the vertical direction.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a photosensitive member;
- a light scanning portion that is disposed below the photosensitive member in a vertical direction and scans the photosensitive member with a beam corresponding to image information;
- a developing portion that develops an electrostatic latent image formed on the photosensitive member by using a toner;
- an intermediate transfer belt that is disposed above the photosensitive member in the vertical direction and onto which a toner image formed on the photosensitive member is transferred;
- and
- a sheet tray that is disposed above the intermediate transfer belt in the vertical direction and receives a sheet output from inside the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus transferring the toner image transferred on the intermediate transfer belt onto a sheet and then outputting the sheet onto the sheet tray,
- wherein the image forming apparatus includes a toner supply container that stores a toner to be supplied to the developing portion, the toner supply container being disposed below the light scanning portion in the vertical direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.