Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuya Hasegawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a wireless communication board on which a communication circuit that wirelessly communicates image data with an external device is mounted, wherein the wireless communication board has a first surface to which a magnetic sheet including a magnetic layer containing metal powder is attached, includes an antenna provided on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the wireless communication board and used by the communication circuit to transmit and receive wireless radio waves, and a region of the magnetic sheet on the first surface and a region of the antenna on the second surface overlap with each other in a thickness direction of the wireless communication board.
Claims13
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a wireless communication board on which a communication circuit that wirelessly communicates image data with an external device is mounted, wherein the wireless communication board has a first surface to which a magnetic sheet including a magnetic layer containing metal powder is attached, includes an antenna provided on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the wireless communication board and used for wireless communication by the communication circuit, and a region of the magnetic sheet on the first surface and a region of the antenna on the second surface overlap with each other in a thickness direction of the wireless communication board;
- an image forming unit configured to form an image based on the image data;
- a control board connected to the wireless communication board via a connection line and configured to control an image forming operation performed by the image forming unit;
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- a metal support member configured to support the control board, the metal support member having a metal surface that faces the first surface of the wireless communication board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.