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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:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kyocera Mita Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358401 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to an image forming apparatus and a method for assembling the apparatus. A main body of the image forming apparatus has a frame main body consisting of an optical frame and a chassis made of a resin (resin chassis). Mounting an image recorder unit on the resin chassis improves the precision in mounting the image recorder unit, while the optical frame assuring the rigidity of the apparatus as a whole. The resin chassis consisting part of the frame main body reduces the production cost of the frame main body, in turn, reducing the production cost on the final product, i.e., image forming apparatus.