Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Naomasa Kimura

Hideki Mori

Masakazu Mori

Yoshiyuki Koshimizu

Tatsuya Shiratori

Masashi Ohashi

Masanari Shirai

Hiroyoshi Maruyama

Kazuo Kagiura

Yoshikuni Toyama

Eiichi Ando

Masaaki Saito

Masahiko Yashiro

Hiroaki Miyake

Naoki Okuda

Toshiyuki Nagano

Takahiro Terao

An image forming apparatus includes an image reader for reading information about an image on a document, a sheet support disposed below the image reader and arranged for supporting sheets thereon, and an image forming unit disposed between the image reader and the sheet support. A body of the image forming apparatus has at least one of the image reader, the sheet support and the image forming unit, and provides a sheet discharging space into which a sheet having an image formed thereon by the image forming unit is discharged, where the image reader, the sheet support, and the image forming unit are arranged around the sheet discharging space. The image forming apparatus further includes an opening unit for exposing the image forming unit to the exterior of the image forming apparatus through the sheet discharging space.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus has a sheet support for accommodating an image-forming sheet; an image forming unit for forming an image on a sheet; a document reading section having a document placing table for reading image information of the document; an ADF in which a document is feedable to the document reading section and displaceable so as to allow placement of the document onto the document placing table; and a sheet discharging section on which a sheet with an image formed thereon by the image forming unit is discharged and stacked by arranging them in the image forming apparatus from the lower part thereof toward the upper part in order. The image forming apparatus further has a transferring section for transferring a sheet with an image formed thereon to the sheet discharging section which is held movably in the vertical direction.

Compact image forming apparatus with vertical arrangement

The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus comprising an original document reading means for optically reading an image on an original document; and an image forming means arranged below the original document reading means for making a recording on a recording medium corresponding to image information read by the original document reading means. The image forming means is one-sidedly arranged to one side in a longitudinal direction of the original document reading means to create a space is obtained on the opposite side.

Compact image forming apparatus

A space-saving image forming apparatus of high usability includes a reader section for reading an image recorded on an original, an image forming section including a process cartridge for forming an image read by the reader section, a sheet loading cassette for accommodating sheets for forming images provided between the reader section and the image forming section, and a feeding section for feeding the sheets accommodated in the sheet loading cassette to the image forming section.

Image forming apparatus with sheet feeding device having sheet supporting portion

An image fixing apparatus includes a rotatable member for being heated by a heating source to fix an image on an image supporting member, first and second detecting elements responsive to temperature of the rotatable member, and wherein the first and second detecting elements are disposed on substantially the same circumferential line of the rotatable member.

Image fixing apparatus

A driving mechanism for driving an electrophotographic photosensitive body operates through a torque limiter. The torque limiter is arranged on a support shaft for supporting the photosensitive body. A driving gear for driving a developing member is arranged coaxially with the torque limiter independently of the latter. This arrangement reduces the load applied to the torque limiter. In addition, the mechanism remains compact.

Apparatus for driving image bearing member via torque limiter

An original scanning apparatus comrpises a scanning unit for scanning an original. The scanning unit has a mirror and a light source for illuminating the original. A connecting member is electrically connected to the scanning unit. A guide member supports and guides one end of the scanning unit. The guide member fixes a position of the one end of the scanning unit in a vertical direction. At least a part of a driving element is disposed at the position overlapping with the guide member in the vertical direction, but not overlapping with the mirror of the scanning unit. The connecting member is provided at the side of the guide member.

Original scanning apparatus with electrical connecting member

The present invention provides an image forming apparatus having an image forming portion, means for feeding a sheet material to the image forming portion and a re-feeding path for re-feeding the sheet on which an image is formed at the image forming portion to the image forming portion again. The image forming apparatus comprises a manual sheet feed inlet formed in the front side of said image forming apparatus; a manual sheet insertion path for directing a sheet material manually inserted into the manual sheet feed inlet to the re-feeding path, the manual sheet insertion path being arranged substantially perpendicular to the re-feeding path; and a feeding means for feeding the manually inserted sheet material directed to the re-feeding path to the image forming portion.

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Moriya-machi, Japan

Naomasa Kimura