G03G 2215/00421
Discharging tray
Official title: Discharging tray, e.g. devices stabilising the quality of the copy medium, postfixing-treatment, inverting, sorting
G03G2215/00421 (Discharging tray) appears on 393 US grants and 297 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03G- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 16 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Image forming apparatus including first and second ducts16 Jun 2026US 12,656,734 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus with laser scanning components positioned for enhanced compactness16 Dec 2025US 12,498,649 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Static elimination apparatus and image forming system8 Jul 2025US 12,353,155 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system21 Jan 2025US 12,204,267 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus31 Dec 2024US 12,180,026 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277154 A1Etria Co., Ltd.
- Medium processing apparatus, image forming system, and non-transitory recording medium10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267273 A1Etria Co., Ltd.
- Image forming apparatus13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235985 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system21 May 2026US 2026/0140472 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Sheet discharge and accommodation device and image forming apparatus19 Mar 2026US 2026/0079437 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Image forming apparatus with sideways U-shaped sheet path62US 5,418,606 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1995
- Sheet stacking device and image forming apparatus provided with same58US 4,787,616 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1988
- Electrophotographic copying machine with paper feeding and discharge trays58US 5,111,252 ASanyo Electric Co., Ltd. · 1992
- Sheet handling apparatus55US 5,112,034 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1992
- Method and apparatus for fixing toner images49US 4,639,405 AEastman Kodak Company · 1987