18890056. IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA)

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

Organization Name

CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor(s)

TAKAHIRO Ono of Ibaraki (JP)

TAKAYUKI Fukushima of Ibaraki (JP)

KAZUKI Matsuo of Kanagawa (JP)

TAKUMA Tachibana of Kanagawa (JP)

YUYA Yasuda of Tokyo (JP)

AKIYUKI Mitamura of Ibaraki (JP)

AKIRA Matsumoto of Ibaraki (JP)

AKIRA Urita of Ibaraki (JP)

NORIKAZU Hishinuma of Chiba (JP)

TAKATSUGU Nakamura of Saitama (JP)

YU Hashimoto of Chiba (JP)

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18890056 titled 'IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

Original Abstract Submitted

An operation unit is provided on a front side of the image forming apparatus. A document feeding portion feeds a document supported by a document supporting portion in a document feeding direction from a front side of the image forming apparatus toward the rear side of the image forming apparatus. A document discharge portion discharges the document in a document discharge direction from the rear side toward the front side. The operation unit is disposed on one side with respect to an apparatus center of the image forming apparatus in a left-right direction orthogonal to a direction from the front side to the rear side. A conveyance center of the document feeding portion in the left-right direction is disposed on the other side with respect to the apparatus center in the left-right direction.