Patent ID: 7688484

Claim:
An image-forming device comprising: an image-reading unit having a conveying path, the image-reading unit further having an image-reading portion that reads an image of a document while the document is being conveyed along the conveying path, the image-reading portion having an image-reading casing and an image-reading device mounted in the image-reading casing, the image-reading casing having the conveying path, the image-reading unit further having a support frame that supports the image-reading casing, an upper edge of the image-reading casing being pivotably attached to an upper edge of the support frame; and a main unit having a main casing and an image-forming unit, the image-forming unit forming an image on a recording medium and being accommodated in the main casing, the main casing having: a surface that extends substantially in either one of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction; an aperture portion at the surface; and a shaft portion at the surface, the image-reading portion being switched with respect to the main unit by pivoting between a first state in which the conveying path extends along the surface and a second state in which the conveying path extends diagonally downward, the support frame being pivotable about the shaft portion at a lower edge of the support frame between an open state in which the support frame opens the aperture portion and a closed state in which the support frame closes the aperture portion, and the image-forming unit being removable from the main casing through the aperture portion when the support frame is in the open state.