Image forming apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSang Hoon Mun, Young Jaek Mok, Jin Ho Park
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a body, a case forming an external appearance of the body, and a card reader disposed at an inside the case. The case includes a supporting member protruding from an inner surface of the case to support a lower end of the card reader, and a pressing member configured to press the card reader toward the inner surface of the case, so that various types of card readers having a different width, height, and/or thickness may be installed for use.
Claims19
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a body;
- a case forming an external appearance of the body;
- a card reader disposed at an inside the case;
- a supporting member protruding from an inner surface of the case so as to support a lower end of the card reader;
- and
- a pressing member pressing the card reader placed on the supporting member toward the inner surface of the case.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a body;
- a control panel configured to control an operation;
- and
- a card reader configured to recognize a card,
- wherein the body comprises a mounting part, which is provided at one side of the body and at an upper side of which the control panel is mounted, and a mounting part case forming an external appearance of the mounting part, and
- the mounting part case comprises a supporting member protruding from an inner surface of the mounting part case to support a lower end of the card reader, and a pressing member configured to press the card reader toward an inner surface of the mounting part case.
An accessible image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a control panel configured to control an operation of the image forming apparatus;
- a card reader disposed in a vicinity of the control panel;
- and
- a case having a supporting member to support a lower end of the card reader,
- wherein the card reader and the control panel are mounted to the image forming apparatus so as to be accessible to both a seated user and a standing user of the image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.