Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming device and fixing unit
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置和定影单元
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Application No.: US12212392Application Date: 2008-09-17
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Publication No.: US07555239B2Publication Date: 2009-06-30
- Inventor: Terumasa Ito , Tomitake Aratachi , Takahiro Ikeno , Masatoshi Shiraki
- Applicant: Terumasa Ito , Tomitake Aratachi , Takahiro Ikeno , Masatoshi Shiraki
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2004-204655 20040712; JP2004-285845 20040930; JP2005-195948 20050705; JP2005-195949 20050705
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16

Abstract:
A fixing unit is disposed at a position closer to a rear side wall than to a front side wall of a casing. A top wall is formed with a depressed portion depressed toward inside the casing. The depressed portion serves as a sheet discharge tray for receiving a recording medium that has passed through the fixing unit. The sheet discharge tray includes a tray member detachably disposed at the top wall. The rear side wall is formed with an opening through which the fixing unit is removed. When the tray member is disposed at the top wall, the tray member is positioned above and adjacent to the fixing unit and overlaps the fixing unit when viewed through the opening, thereby preventing the fixing unit from being removed from the casing. The fixing unit is removable through the opening when the tray member is detached from the top wall.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090022515A1 Image Forming Device and Fixing Unit Public/Granted day:2009-01-22
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