Image forming apparatus having prearranged control board, power source board, and fixing, conveyance, tower supply and exposure units

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9354592-B2
Application number	US-201414320828-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 1, 2014
Priority date	Jul 12, 2013
Publication date	May 31, 2016
Grant date	May 31, 2016

Abstract

The power source board is arranged at a lower side on the back side of the main body of the image forming apparatus. The load control board is arranged at an upper side in a vertical direction of the power source board in such a manner that the load control board does not overlap with the power source board. For a board and load at a lower side when viewed from a load control board, a connector is arranged near the lower side of the load control board. For a board and load at an upper side of the load control board, a connector is arranged near the upper side of the load control board. Similarly, for boards and loads of right and left side, connectors are arranged near the respective right and left sides of the load control board.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a storing unit configured to store a recording paper;
a conveyance unit configured to convey the recording paper stored in the storing unit;
a conveyance driving unit configured to drive the conveyance unit;
an exposure unit;
a photoreceptor;
a transfer unit configured to transfer a toner image formed on the photoreceptor to the recording paper conveyed by the conveyance unit;
a fixing unit configured to fix…

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Kakutani Toshifumi
• Suzuki Shinya
• Kato Hirohisa
• Hata Yousuke
• Suda Takeyuki
• Sato Kazumi
• Koseki Manabu
• Abe Toshiyuki

Classifications

• G03G21/1642 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G03G21/1604 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G03G21/1652

  Physics · mapped topic

• G03G15/80 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic