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US 8,045,237 B2Granted
Data processing apparatus and method of using the same
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorYoshimichi Kanda
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Abstract
In a data processing apparatus of the present invention, a disk unit storing a disk is mounted on the apparatus such that the surface of the disk is parallel to the direction of a shock or an impact. This protects the disk unit and therefore the disk from the influence of shocks and impacts as far as possible.
Claims10
A data processing apparatus, comprising:
- a casing having a generally parallelepiped configuration;
- a sheet tray mounted to a first wall of said casing and movable horizontally into or out of said first wall in an operating direction;
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- a disk unit mounted to said casing and positioned such that (1) a readable surface of a disk loaded into said disk unit is parallel to a second wall and a third wall of said casing which are positioned at a right side and a left side of said casing relative to the first wall, and (2) a surface of said disk unit does not overlap a plane in which said sheet tray is projected on a fourth wall of said casing, which is a rear surface of said casing that faces said first wall.
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