Image processing apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10532906-B2
Application number	US-201816120938-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 4, 2018
Priority date	Aug 23, 2010
Publication date	Jan 14, 2020
Grant date	Jan 14, 2020

Abstract

An image processing apparatus according to the present invention has: an apparatus main body whose external appearance is configured from an upper casing, a lower casing, and a link casing that vertically links the upper casing and the lower casing and that has a paper discharge opening for discharging paper on one side face; a paper discharge portion that is formed as a space between the upper casing and the lower casing and that is to store paper discharged from the paper discharge opening; and an operation panel portion that is disposed in a vertically tiltable manner on a front face of the upper casing. When viewing the apparatus main body from the front side, an open space that allows paper discharged to the paper discharge portion to be viewed is provided between the operation panel portion and the link casing.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
an upper casing that contains an image capture portion; a lower casing that contains an image forming portion;
a link casing that vertically links the upper casing and the lower casing on at least one side of the image processing apparatus in a lateral direction thereof,
a paper discharge portion provided between the upper casing and the lower casing, the paper discharge portion that is to store paper discharged from a paper discharge opening provided on the link casing;
an open portion that is opened on a front side of the image processing apparatus to pick up the paper stored on the paper discharge portion; and
an operation panel portion that is disposed in a vertically tiltable manner on a front face of the image processing apparatus;
wherein the open portion is formed between the operation panel portion and the link casing in the lateral direction of the image processing apparatus, and
wherein an inclined face that is inclined toward the paper discharge portion is formed in a lower portion of the front face of the upper casing in the open portion.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein a paper placement face of the paper discharge portion has an inclined portion that is lowered toward the paper discharge opening, and
wherein the open portion is provided such that a paper alignment reference position at a lower edge portion of the inclined paper placement face can be viewed.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein a side face on the one side of the operation panel portion in the lateral direction is inclined toward a rear of the image processing apparatus.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the front face of the link casing is formed as a second inclined face that is inclined from an edge portion on an outer side to an edge portion of the open portion.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the operation panel portion includes a touch panel-type display and does not include any hardware key.

6. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
an upper casing that contains an image capture portion; a lower casing that contains an image forming portion;
a link casing that vertically links the upper casing and the lower casing on at least one side of the image processing apparatus in a lateral direction thereof,
a paper discharge portion provided between the upper casing and the lower casing, the paper discharge portion that is to store paper discharged from a paper discharge opening provided on the link casing;
an open portion that is opened on a front side of the image processing apparatus to pick up the paper stored on the paper discharge portion; and
an operation panel portion that is disposed in a vertically tiltable manner on a front face of the image processing apparatus,
wherein the open portion is formed beside the operation panel portion in the lateral direction of the image processing apparatus, and
wherein an inclined face that is inclined toward the paper discharge portion is formed in a lower portion of the front face of the upper casing in the open portion.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein the open portion is formed beside the link casing in the lateral direction of the image processing apparatus, and
wherein an inclined face that is inclined toward the paper discharge portion is formed in a lower portion of the front face of the upper casing in the open portion.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein, in a state where the operation panel portion has been tilted downward, the open portion to pick up the paper discharged to the paper discharge portion is provided on the front side.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein a paper placement face of the paper discharge portion has an inclined portion that is lowered toward the paper discharge opening, and
wherein the open portion is provided such that a paper alignment reference position at a lower edge portion of the inclined paper placement face can be viewed.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein a side face on the one side of the operation panel portion in the lateral direction is inclined toward a rear of the image processing apparatus.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein the front face of the link casing is formed as a second inclined face that is inclined from an edge portion on an outer side to an edge portion of the open portion.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein the operation panel portion includes a touch panel-type display and does not include any hardware key.

Assignees

• Sharp Kk

Inventors

• Kawano Masahiro
• Matsuda Takashi
• Saito Naoki
• Ohta Kenji

Classifications

• G03G2215/00004

  Handling of entire apparatus · CPC title

• B65H31/04 Primary

  with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates · CPC title

• G03G15/5016 Primary

  User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console · CPC title