Image forming device and image input device
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsTasuku Kohara, Takashi Inoue, Hiroshi Takeda, Kenichi Yamada, Taisuke Omi, Kazuo Koike
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Abstract
In an image forming device which acquires image information of a document and forms an image on a recording sheet, an image forming device body has a first reading unit and a processing unit, wherein the first reading unit acquires image information of a document and the processing unit forms an image on a recording sheet based on the image information. An image input device has a second reading unit which acquires image information of a document. The image input device is arranged in the image forming device body at a position lower than a position of the first reading unit.
Claims16
An image forming device which acquires image information of a document and forms an image on a recording sheet, comprising:
- an image forming device body having a first reading unit and a processing unit, wherein the first reading unit acquires image information of a document and the processing unit forms an image on a recording sheet based on the image information acquired by the first reading unit;
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- an image input device having a second reading unit, the second reading unit acquiring image information of a document, and the image input device being arranged in the image forming device body at a position lower than a position of the first reading unit,
- wherein the image input device is provided so that the image input device is capable of being pushed in the image forming device body or pulled out from the image forming device body,
- wherein the image forming device body is provided with a plurality of mounting mechanisms to which a plurality of sheet feeding trays, each containing a plurality of recording sheets, are detachably mounted respectively, and the image input device is detachably mounted to one of the plurality of mounting mechanisms.
An image input device for use in an image forming device, the image input device inputting information relating to an image forming job which is executed by the image forming device, the image input device comprising:
- a holding member which is detachably mounted to a sheet-feeding-tray mounting part provided in the image forming device;
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- an image input device body provided in the holding member so that the image input device body is capable of entering or leaving the holding member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.