Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoichi Watanabe
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes, a main body of the image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet, and provided with a stacking portion on which a sheet with an image formed thereon is stacked, a sheet conveyance device detachably attached to the stacking portion of the main body of the image forming apparatus, and provided with a conveyance path for conveying a sheet, a guide portion disposed in the sheet conveyance device, and configured to guide the conveyed sheet, a vertically extending wall portion disposed in the main body of the image forming apparatus, facing the stacking portion, and a restriction portion protruded from the wall portion, and configured to restrict a movement of the guide portion in a direction for opening the conveyance path.
Claims22
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body configured to form an image on a sheet, and provided with a storing space in which stacked sheets with an image formed thereon are to be stored;
- a sheet conveyance device detachably attached to the storing space, and provided with a conveyance path for conveying a sheet, wherein the sheet conveyance device includes a base portion and a guide portion configured to form the conveyance path at a closed position so as to guide the conveyed sheet, wherein the guide portion is rotatably supported by the base portion about a rotational axis so that the guide portion is able to be rotated with respect to the base portion in a first rotating direction from the closed position, and wherein, in a case that the guide portion rotates in the first rotating direction from the closed position, the conveyance path is opened;
- a wall portion vertically extending and disposed in the main body, wherein the wall portion faces the storing space;
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- a protrusion protruded from the wall portion, wherein the guide portion that is being rotated in the first rotating direction comes into contact with the protrusion to stop rotating with respect to the base portion in the first rotating direction, and the guide portion that is in contact with the protrusion is unable to rotate any further in the first rotating direction beyond a predetermined position.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body configured to form an image on a sheet, and provided with a storing space in which stacked sheets with an image formed thereon are stored;
- a sheet conveyance device detachably attached to the storing space, and provided with a conveyance path where the sheet with an image formed thereon by the main body is to be conveyed, wherein the sheet conveyance device includes a base portion, and wherein the image forming apparatus is provided with an open space above the sheet conveyance device in a state in which the sheet conveyance device is attached to the storing space;
- a guide portion configured to form the conveyance path at a closed position so as to guide the conveyed sheet, wherein the guide portion is rotatably supported by the base portion about a rotational axis so that the guide portion is able to be rotated with respect to the base portion in a first rotating direction from the closed position, and wherein, in a case that the guide portion rotates in the first rotating direction from the closed position, the conveyance path is opened;
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- a protrusion protruded from the wall portion, wherein the guide portion that is being rotated in the first rotating direction comes into contact with the protrusion to stop rotating with respect to the base portion in the first rotating direction, and the guide portion that is in contact with the protrusion is unable to rotate any further in the first rotating direction beyond a predetermined position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.