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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2008
Sakae Ito, Nishikasugai-gun, JP;
Shusaku Tsusaka, Nagoya, JP;
Yasuo Tamaru, Nagoya, JP;
Tomitake Aratachi, Nagoya, JP;
Terumasa Ito, Ama-gun, JP;
Sakae Ito, Nishikasugai-gun, JP;
Shusaku Tsusaka, Nagoya, JP;
Yasuo Tamaru, Nagoya, JP;
Tomitake Aratachi, Nagoya, JP;
Terumasa Ito, Ama-gun, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
In a printer, a scanner unit is formed into a taper shape having a thinner thickness on a side of a pick-up roller in a removing direction of a process unit, to allow the process unit to be removed from the printer. A part of a sheet feeding path is formed in an area between the process unit and a sheet cassette. An image forming position on the sheet feed path is set lower than an upper end of the pick-up roller. Thus, removal of the process unit can be readily performed. Further, the height of the printer at a position of the pick-up roller can be reduced as compared with a case where the scanner unit is not formed into a taper shape.