US 11,960,234 B2
Image forming apparatus in which a document can be placed more easily on a receiving surface
Takuma Ayabe, Kanagawa (JP); and Tsutomu Shiihara, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/051,524.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-060846 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0315000 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/1647 (2013.01) [G03G 21/1619 (2013.01); G03G 21/1633 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an apparatus body having a receiving surface on which a document is placed and that is provided on a rear portion of an upper surface, the rear portion being positioned behind a front end of the upper surface;
a reading unit provided on the rear portion such that the reading unit is openable and closable, the reading unit reading an image on the document while transporting the document;
an inclined surface on which no operation unit used by a user to perform an input operation is disposed, the inclined surface being continuously inclined downward from a front end of the rear portion to the front end of the upper surface; and
a projecting portion provided on a front portion of the apparatus body at a position on a first side of the inclined surface in a left-right direction, the projecting portion projecting forward and upward with respect to the inclined surface.