Brother Industries, Ltd.

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Satoru Hattori

Toshihiro Takahashi

Sakae Ito

Takuro Kusama

Satoru Ishikawa

Fumio Morita

Shigeru Matsumoto

Hirofumi Sato

Syuichiro Shimoki

Shougo Sato

Yasuo Fukamachi

Toshiya Inada

Yasutake Yamaguchi

Keiichiro Egami

Yosuke Mase

Tatsuo Ogasawara

Hidenori Hisada

Kazumi Suwa

Masato Moribe

Susumu Misu

An image scanner section is disposed above a printer section. The image scanner section is supported by the printer section in such a manner as to be pivotable about a pivotal axis. The printer section has a lower housing having a substantially rectangular shape as viewed from above. The image scanner section has an upper housing having a substantially rectangular shape as viewed from above. The upper housing and the lower housing are configured such that a second upper corner portion, which is a corner portion of the upper housing, projects beyond a second lower corner portion, which is a corner portion of the lower housing and is located just under the second upper corner portion.

Image-forming apparatus

Image-forming apparatus including lower housing and upper housing disposed over the lower housing and movable between closed and open positions

An image forming apparatus includes: a printer unit that forms an image on a recording sheet; an operation panel for operating and/or setting the printer unit, a side on which the operation panel is provided is defined as a front side; and an ejection space on which the recording sheet ejected from the printer unit is placed. As viewed from the front side, a radius curvature of a first portion that intermediates a right side plane of the printer unit and a front plane of the printer unit is larger than a radius curvature of a second portion that intermediates a left side plane of the printer unit and the front plane of the printer unit.

Image forming apparatus having two front curved planes one having radius curvature larger than the other

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When a guide lever is in a toner open position, a space is formed between an upper surface of the guide lever and a lower surface of a flat bed unit as a part of a transport path of a paper. Therefore, the paper is turned forward around in a generally U-shape in the transport path, and passes over a toner cartridge, then is ejected to an ejection tray. So the transport path can be increased in radius of curvature at the U-turn point thereof, and whereby a reliable feed of the paper with a reduced risk of paper jam can be achieved. Further, since a scanning unit is disposed below and adjacent to a process cartridge and the ejection tray so that it can overlap with the process cartridge and the ejection tray, and is disposed adjacent to a feed tray so that it can overlap upwardly with the feed tray, reduction in size of a laser printer can be achieved.

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Nagoya, Japan

Satoru Hattori