Image forming apparatus including a housing used as paper output tray
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYukio Kanaoka, Masaaki Aida, Hidetoshi Fujimoto
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a housing in which an image forming section is contained and a paper output section into which a sheet of paper on which an image has been formed is ejected. The paper output section includes a paper output tray that supports the front side or back side of the sheet of paper, a back-end supporting member that supports a back end of the sheet of paper in a paper ejection direction, and a paper takeout slot through which the sheet of paper is taken out. The paper output section is provided at the outer edge of the interior of the housing. The housing has an external wall whose inner face side is used as the paper output tray. The paper takeout slot opens upward.
Claims12
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a housing in which an image forming section that forms an image on a sheet of paper is contained;
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- a paper output section, provided in the housing, into which the sheet of paper on which the image has been formed is ejected,
- wherein the paper output section includes a paper output tray that supports the sheet of paper ejected into the paper output section and a paper takeout slot through which the sheet of paper is taken out,
- the housing has an external wall whose inner face side is used as the paper output tray,
- the paper takeout slot opens upward,
- the paper output tray includes an inclined portion that inclines toward an outside of the image forming apparatus, as the sheet of paper moves toward the paper takeout slot, and
- the inclined portion is partially formed in a central part of the housing in an up and down direction of the image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.