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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1993
Hidejirou Maehara, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus which can perform a number of jobs usually performed by a host computer. The image forming apparatus has a printer and a scanner, and is used with a host computer having a standard bus line provided with an external connection. The image forming apparatus includes a bus line having at least the same architecture as that of the standard bus line used in the host computer, an interface, connected to the bus line, provided for connecting the host computer to the bus line, a central processing unit, connected to a bus controlling unit, provided for controlling a data flow of image data, a basic input/output system provided for controlling an input/output of the image data to/from optional apparatuses connected to the image forming apparatus, and a bus controlling unit, connected to the bus line, the central processing unit and the basic input/output system, provided for controlling data communication between the bus line and each of the central processing unit and the basic input/output system.
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