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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. 23, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Makoto Obu, Yokohama, JP;
Shigeharu Uda, Machida, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus having a common sheet processing station with a sheet supply unit, at least one image forming unit which is detachably arranged with the common sheet processing station. The image forming unit forms images on a sheet carried from the common sheet processing station via a sheet carrying path. Many different image forming units may be utilized with the common sheet processing station.