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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2003
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masahiro Funakoshi, Ibaraki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to provide an image forming apparatus with a small installation area. In order to attain this object, an image forming apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes: a recording material unit which stores recording materials; an image forming unit which is arranged above the recording material unit and forms an image on the recording material supplied from the recording material unit; and a power supply unit for supplying electric power to the image forming apparatus, in which the power supply unit is constituted as a unit integral with the recording material unit and is arranged below the image forming unit.