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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2020
Applicant:
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Harada, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00541 (2013.01); H04N 1/00604 (2013.01); H04N 1/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a scanner device and an image forming apparatus body to which the scanner device is attached. The scanner device has a document inlet and a document outlet respectively formed in mutually opposed surfaces thereof, and is configured to read an image of a document fed thereinto through the document inlet and discharge the document through the document outlet. The scanner device is detachably attached to a top surface of the image forming apparatus body. The top surface of the image forming apparatus body functions as a guide surface guiding the document when the scanner device is used.