Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Mariko Mogi

Hidenori Jo

Yuki Nagashima

Naoya Kamimura

Yasuo Fukamachi

Hideshi Nishiyama

Keita Shimizu

Masaaki Furukawa

Kazutoshi Nakamura

Shinya Kusuda

Kazuma Hinoue

Yutaka Kakigahara

Masataka Kamiya

Keita Hironaka

Satoshi Murata

Kouichi Sugimoto

Shunji Yoshimoto

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit including a photosensitive drum, a housing configured to house the image forming unit, and a display operation panel located on an upper surface of the housing. The display operation panel includes a display panel including a display surface on an upper surface of the display panel, and a touch panel including a touch surface on an upper surface of the touch panel. The touch surface includes a first region overlapping the display surface, and a second region not overlapping the display surface. A front end edge of the display panel is located behind and above a front end edge of the touch panel such that the second region is located in front of and below the first region.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a first housing, an image reading unit including a reading sensor, a communication circuit board including a communication antenna capable of short-distance wireless communication, a second housing located above the first housing and accommodating the image reading unit and the communication circuit board, and an operation panel located in front of the second housing. The second housing includes a first side wall located at a rear of the operation panel, and a second side wall located at the rear of the operation panel. An inner surface of the first side wall is opposed to the communication circuit board. An outer surface of the first side-wall has a mark indicating a position to which a communication object is brought close.

A sheet conveying device includes a sheet-discharging roller, a sheet-discharge tray, a sheet-discharge stopper, and a stopper urging portion including a contact member and an urging member. The sheet-discharge stopper has a first surface and a second surface located on a back side of the first surface and is pivotable between a non-use state in which the second surface faces upward and a use state in which the first surface faces upward. The sheet-discharge stopper is pivotable, in the use state, between a first use position and a second use position at which a distal end is lowered from the first use position. The sheet-discharge stopper is in contact with the contact member in the use state, and an area, of the sheet-discharge stopper is located below the second surface in the non-use state.

Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction; a developing cartridge; a transfer unit; a solvent cartridge accommodating solvent for dissolving toner; an applicator applying the solvent to the toner on a sheet; and a cover movable between an open position and a closed position. The developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are detachably attachable to the main casing independently of each other. The developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are positioned between the applicator and the cover in a second direction crossing the first direction, and the solvent cartridge is positioned closer to the applicator than the developing cartridge is to the applicator in a state where the developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are attached to the main casing and the cover is at the closed position.

Image forming apparatus to which solvent cartridge that can accommodate therein solvent is detachably attachable independently of developing cartridge

An image forming apparatus is provided, which includes a sheet tray disposed to face a plurality of photoconductive bodies across a belt device, and two main frames disposed to face each other across the plurality of photoconductive bodies, the belt device, and the sheet tray, the two main frames being configured such that the plurality of photoconductive bodies, the belt device, and the sheet tray are detachably attached thereto, the two main frames being further configured to define a communication section that leads from a space for accommodating the plurality of photoconductive bodies to the sheet tray.

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Nagoya, Japan

Mariko Mogi