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US 7,605,954 B2Granted
Original feeding apparatus, original reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenichi Manabe, Kazuyuki Iwamoto
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Abstract
An original feeding apparatus is located above an image forming portion for recording an image on a recording medium and is constructed to convey an original to an image reading portion slidable in a shift direction relative to the image forming portion. The original feeding apparatus is slidable integrally with the image reading portion relative to the image forming portion and has its barycenter located on the rear end side with respect to the center in the shift direction.
Claims4
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming portion configured to form an image on a recording medium;
- a discharging space disposed at a lateral side of the image forming portion to receive the recording medium from the image forming portion;
- an image reading portion configured to read information from an original and placed above the image forming portion and the discharging space;
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- an original feeding apparatus located above said image reading portion and adapted to convey an original to said image reading portion, said original feeding apparatus comprising an original conveying drive portion which drives said original feeding apparatus,
- wherein said original feeding apparatus is movable integrally with said image reading portion above said image forming portion and said discharging space on a side of said discharging space, and
- wherein the original conveying drive portion overlaps with said image forming portion in a vertical direction, when said original feeding apparatus is moved on the side of said discharging space.
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