Document feeder and image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShohichi Fukutome, Kenji Kuroda, Hironori Ogasawara, Hisashi Yamanaka, Toshiki Fukunishi
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Abstract
A document feeder includes a document placing tray on which a document is placed; a document discharging tray on which a document discharged from a document discharging port in a discharging direction is stacked; and a light source that radiates light to the document discharging tray. The document discharging tray is disposed below the document placing tray. The document discharging tray has a protruding portion protruding upward from the surrounding area. The light source is disposed within a region having a width that is the same as a document having a maximum size in the width direction.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a transporter discharging a sheet, which has been transported, from a sheet discharging port;
- a discharging tray on which the sheet discharged from the sheet discharging port in a discharging direction is stacked;
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- a light source disposed above the discharging tray and radiating light to a lower portion, wherein
- the discharging tray includes a protruding portion protruding farther upward than a surrounding area,
- the protruding portion overlaps the light source in a width direction orthogonal to the discharging direction, and a length of the protruding portion in the width direction is smaller than a length of a sheet having a maximum size to be discharged,
- when the sheet having the maximum size is discharged from the sheet discharging port, an end portion of the sheet having the maximum size extends outward from the protruding portion in the width direction, and
- the light source is disposed, in the width direction, in a region from a center portion of the sheet having the maximum size to be discharged to an edge of the sheet having the maximum size to be discharged, the edge located on a front side of the image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.