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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1998
Hideaki Kawai, Kyoto, JP;
Masahiro Fujimaru, Kyoto, JP;
Mitsuhiko Miyaoka, Shiga-gun, JP;
Yoshihiko Ohara, Ohmihachiman, JP;
Murata Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a facsimile device utilizing an improved process unit for an electrophotographic image recording device. The process unit includes a development unit and a photosensitive (drum) unit. These two units can be integrally engaged with each other and the combined two units is as a whole removable from/attached to the facsimile device when maintenance is required due to jammed paper or the like. When one of the units is to be replaced with a new unit because of exhaustion or the like, the combined two units can be separated and subject to maintenance (replacement). In the present invention, this process unit is accommodated in a main body frame of a facsimile having an image recording part such that the unit can be removed from/attached to the main body frame in the vertical direction. A scan part frame having a continuous document scan part and a flat head bed scanner is rotatably mounted on the main body frame. In addition, an openable intermediate cover is provided in the main body frame surface such that the process unit in the main body frame can be easily approached by opening this cover.