Patent ID: 7956879

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a main body frame; an image formation section that is contained in the main body frame and forms an image on a recording medium; an ejection mechanism that is contained in the main body frame and ejects the recording medium on which an image has been formed by the image formation section to an ejection section on the upper surface of the main body frame; an image scanning device that is mounted to the main body frame above the ejection section and scans an image of a document, the image scanning device being unsupported at least three corners thereof; the ejection section being configured such that the ejection direction of the recording medium is a substantially horizontal direction; a direction perpendicular to the ejection direction in another horizontal direction is defined as a first direction; an end side of the main frame body in the first direction is defined as a first end side; and the other end side in the first direction is defined as a second end side; and a single supporting section, formed as a plate along a full width of one side of the image scanning device, that supports the image scanning device on the main body frame so as to define a space between the image scanning device and the main body frame, wherein the supporting section extends vertically upward from the first end side or the second end side in the first direction, and the supporting section is configured such that the space defined between the image scanning device and the main body frame is open at an upstream side and a down stream side in the horizontal direction of the ejection direction and the first or the second end side in the first direction at which the supporting section is not positioned.