Multifunction apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasato Moribe
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Abstract
A multifunction apparatus is provided with a printer unit having a discharge tray disposed on a top face thereof and a scanner unit disposed on the image recording unit with a space being defined between the image reading unit and the discharge tray. The scanner unit has a casing. The casing is provided in the printer unit rotatably about a rear side of the apparatus in such a fashion as to open a front side of the apparatus. The casing has a recessed part formed at a position of a bottom plate thereof and corresponding to the discharge tray. Thus, a recording sheet removal opening opened on a front side of the apparatus is formed. A reinforcing portion recessed in such a fashion as to be swollen toward an internal space of the casing is formed on the bottom plate having the recessed part.
Claims6
A multifunction apparatus comprising:
- an image recording unit discharging on a discharge tray disposed on a top face thereof a recording medium on which an image has been recorded;
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- an image reading unit disposed on the image recording unit with a space being defined between the image reading unit and the discharge tray, wherein
- the image reading unit has a casing having a recording medium removal opening opened on a front side of the apparatus and formed by recessing a part of a bottom facing surface of a bottom plate corresponding to the discharge tray and a reinforcing portion recessed in such a fashion as to be swollen toward an internal space and formed on the bottom surface of the bottom plate forming the recording medium removal opening, the casing being provided in the image recording unit rotatably about a rear side of the apparatus in such a fashion as to open a front side of the apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.