US 11,811,988 B2
Image-forming apparatus
Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Matsumoto (JP); Tomoyuki Higuchi, Shiojiri (JP); and Kenji Yanagisawa, Azumino (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/648,689.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-009362 (JP), filed on Jan. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0236682 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/22 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00519 (2013.01) [G03G 15/221 (2013.01); G03G 21/1619 (2013.01); G03G 21/1623 (2013.01); G03G 21/1633 (2013.01); H04N 1/00631 (2013.01); G03G 2221/169 (2013.01); G03G 2221/1678 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image-forming apparatus comprising:
in a body having a predetermined housing:
an image-reading unit configured to read a document placed on a document placement surface;
an image-forming unit configured to form, on a predetermined sheet, an image read by the image-reading unit;
a discharge portion configured to discharge the sheet on which the image was formed by the image-forming unit; and
a discharge tray on which the sheet discharged from the discharge portion is placed, wherein
an intra-apparatus-discharge space is formed in the body in between the image-reading unit and the image-forming unit;
the housing includes a cover that is openable, and a consumption article mounting portion in which a consumption article used by the image-forming unit is mounted, and accessible to open the cover,
at least a portion of a surface of the housing at a region of the consumption article mounting portion has a transparent portion and another region that is a bright color,
a peripheral region of the transparent portion is colored in a dark color,
a document placement surface, and the intra-apparatus-discharge space are colored in a dark color, and
between the dark color of the intra-apparatus-discharge space and the transparent portion is the bright color in the vertical direction.