Image forming device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoji Ito
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Abstract
The insertion and removal of an image forming unit, inserted into the storage bay of the enclosure of electronic equipment so that it can be removed, is made easy, and the clearance of paper jams and maintenance operations, etc., are facilitated. An outer case is fitted inside the storage bay, for accommodating hard disk drives, etc., of the electronic equipment (e.g., a computer), and an image forming unit is inserted into this outer case so that it can be removed. Slides for supporting the main case, so that it can slide backward and forward are provided at the bottom of the outer case. In the image forming process, a latent image is formed on the microcapsule sheet by dot-wise exposure with LEDs, after which pressure development takes place, whereupon a color image is formed on the microcapsule sheet.
Claims7
An image forming device for insertion into a predetermined storage bay of an electronic equipment comprising:
- an image forming unit forming an image on a recording medium;
- an outer case disposed in said storage bay;
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- a main case accommodating said image forming unit and being inserted into the outer case so as to be removable, said recording medium being disposed in said main case.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.