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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2005
Applicants:
Ryota Kato, Nagoya, JP;
Taizo Matsuura, Ama-gun, JP;
Inventors:
Ryota Kato, Nagoya, JP;
Taizo Matsuura, Ama-gun, JP;
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 26/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In an image forming apparatus, a rigid-body plate, which is to be placed across a scanning unit for constituting a housing, also serves as an upper cover of the scanning unit, and the scanning unit is suspended on the rigid-body plate at an interior position from a top cover of an upper portion of the housing of the image forming apparatus. This obviates a necessity for interposing, between the scanning unit and a photosensitive drum, a rigid-body plate or the like used for mounting the scanning unit, thereby shortening a distance between the scanning unit and the photosensitive drum.