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US 8,942,591 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasunori Watanabe
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a finger receiving portion that is inwardly recessed and defined in each of right and left side-surfaces of a housing of the image forming apparatus. The housing includes an upper surface that is inclined downward toward the front of the image forming apparatus. The finger receiving portion is disposed in an upper part of each of the right and left side-surfaces of the housing and at a position that allows a user to hold both of the finger receiving portion and the upper surface of the housing at the same time.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a pair of finger receiving portions that is each inwardly recessed and defined in each of respective right and left side-surfaces of a housing of the image forming apparatus,
- wherein the housing comprises an upper surface that is inclined downward toward the front of the image forming apparatus and the upper surface of the housing is inclined to the finger receiving portions of the housing,
- wherein each of the finger receiving portions is disposed in an upper part of each of the respective right and left side-surfaces of the housing and at a position that allows a user to hold both of the finger receiving portions and the upper surface of the housing at the same time, and
- wherein a portion of the inclined upper surface of the housing that is overlapping the finger receiving portions in a vertical direction is inclined towards the finger receiving portions.
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An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a housing comprising an upper surface, a pair of side-surfaces, a rear surface and a front surface, the upper surface being inclined downward from the rear surface to the front surface and being provided between the side-surfaces;
- a pair of finger receiving portions that is each inwardly recessed and defined in each of the respective side-surfaces of the housing, each finger receiving portion is inclined to an adjacent portion of the inclined upper surface of the housing while at least a portion of each finger receiving portion overlaps the corresponding adjacent portion of the inclined upper surface in a vertical direction;
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- a handgrip portion comprises each of the finger receiving portions and a portion of the upper surface of the housing,
- wherein the corresponding adjacent portions of the inclined upper surface are inclined towards the finger receiving portions.
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An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a housing;
- and
- an image forming unit accommodated in the housing, wherein the housing further comprises:
- a pair of sidewalls, each sidewall having a recessed portion at an upper portion of the sidewall, the recessed portions each comprising an upper wall extending from the sidewall toward inside of the housing;
- a top wall coupled with the pair of sidewalls at the upper portion of the pair of sidewalls, the top wall having an upper surface extending from a rear side of the housing toward a front side of the housing;
- and
- a sheet discharge tray configured to support a sheet discharged from the image forming unit via a discharge port of the housing;
- and
- a document reader disposed above the sheet discharge tray and configured to discharge a read document onto a document discharge tray,
- wherein the recessed portions are disposed above the sheet discharge tray,
- wherein the recessed portion are disposed below the document reader,
- wherein the rear side of the upper surface is higher than the front side of the upper surface,
- wherein the upper surface of the top wall adjacent to the recessed portions is tilted with respect to the upper wall of each of the recessed portions while at least a portion of each recessed portion overlaps the corresponding adjacent portion of the tilted upper surface of the top wall in a vertical direction,
- wherein each of the image forming device and document reader are configured to discharge the respective sheet and read document towards the front side of the housing in a direction substantially parallel to the pair of sidewalls,
- wherein the corresponding adjacent portions of the tilted upper surface of the top wall are tilted towards the upper wall of each of the recessed portions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.