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US 8,787,814 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshitaka Watanabe, Takeji Horie, Shoji Ito
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Abstract
A sound insulation member is detachably attached to a bottom of a printer main body to shield a noise in the printer main body. The sound insulation member is detached from the printer main body when an option sheet feeding apparatus is added. When the sound insulation member is not detached from the printer main body in adding the option sheet feeding apparatus, the sound insulation member enters a recess that is provided on an upper surface of the option sheet feeding apparatus.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming apparatus main body;
- an option sheet feeding apparatus including a sheet cassette that stores sheets and a sheet feeding portion that feeds the sheets stored in the sheet cassette, that is added to a bottom of the image forming apparatus main body;
- a sound insulation member that is provided between the image forming apparatus main body and a mounting surface on which the image forming apparatus is mounted and which is detachably attached to the bottom of the image forming apparatus main body so as to shield a noise in the image forming apparatus main body when the option sheet feeding apparatus is not added to the image forming apparatus, wherein the sound insulation member is an elongated member that extends substantially along a width of the image forming apparatus main body;
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- a recess that extends substantially along the width of the image forming apparatus main body and that is provided on an upper surface of the option sheet feeding apparatus so that the sound insulation member can enter the recess when the option sheet feeding apparatus is added to the image forming apparatus in state that the sound insulation member is not detached from the image forming apparatus main body.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming apparatus main body;
- an option sheet feeding apparatus including a sheet cassette that stores sheets and a sheet feeding portion that feeds the sheets stored in the sheet cassette, that is added to a bottom of the image forming apparatus main body;
- a sound insulation member that is provided between the image forming apparatus main body and a mounting surface on which the image forming apparatus is mounted and which is detachably attached to the bottom of the image forming apparatus main body so as to shield a noise in the image forming apparatus main body when the option sheet feeding apparatus is not added to the image forming apparatus;
- a recess that is provided on an upper surface of the option sheet feeding apparatus, and which is positioned so that the sound insulation member can enter the recess when the option sheet feeding apparatus is added to the image forming apparatus;
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- a detection portion that is provided in the option sheet feeding apparatus to detect a presence or absence of the sound insulation member in adding the option sheet feeding apparatus.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.