US 10,226,948 B2Granted

Image forming apparatus

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsTakashi Fujita, Yoshiro Nishino, Nobuhiro Tani

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Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming station for forming an image on the basis of image information; a top plate portion provided in an upper portion and including a stacking surface having a length in a predetermined direction longer than a length of a short side of a maximum size sheet on which the image forming station is capable of forming the image and shorter than a length of a long side of the maximum size sheet; a wall portion projected upwardly at a position of one end portion with respect to the predetermined direction of the top plate portion and provided with a wall surface inclined so as to form an obtuse angle between itself and the stacking surface of the top plate portion; and a connecting portion having a curved surface configured to connect the stacking surface and the wall surface with each other.

Claims17

Dependent claims

An image forming apparatus comprising:

a main assembly including an image forming station configured to form an image on the basis of image information;
a toner bottle mounting portion provided on an upper portion of said main assembly, configured to mount a toner bottle, and configured to supply toner into said image forming station from the toner bottle mounted to said toner bottle mounting portion;
a top plate portion provided on the upper portion adjacent to said toner bottle mounting portion with respect to a direction crossing with a front-rear direction and with a vertical direction of the image forming apparatus, said top plate portion including a stacking surface having a length, in the front-rear direction of said main assembly, which is longer than 330 mm and shorter than 483 mm;
a wall portion provided at the upper portion adjacent to said toner bottle mounting portion with respect to the crossing direction and behind said top plate portion with respect to the front-rear direction, said wall portion including a wall surface protruding upward relative to said stacking surface;
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a connecting portion having a curved surface configured to connect said stacking surface with said wall surface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/190,547Filed 23 Jun 2016
Priority: JP 2015-12742625 Jun 2015
Published: US 2016/0376119 A129 Dec 2016
Granted: 12 Mar 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

B41J 13/106
Sheet holders, retainers , movable guides, or stationary guides: for the sheet output section
B65H 2301/542
For managing processing of handled material: quality control
B65H 2402/44
Details of frames, housings or mountings of the whole handling apparatus: housings
B65H 2402/46
Details of frames, housings or mountings of the whole handling apparatus: table apparatus