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US 2004/0062579 A1Published application
Paper discharge tray
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshitaka Iwago, Michifumi Ishigami, Kazuhiro Hoshiya, Shigeharu Katayama, Takashi Ohama, Ryoichi Matsushima
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Abstract
A tray and a method thereof that uses the tray including a surface with a first end and a second end opposite to the first end a projection extending away from the surface and from the second end of the surface and a recess formed below the surface and from the projection toward the first end.
Claims25
A tray, comprising:
- a surface with a first end and a second end opposite to the first end;
- a projection extending away from the surface and from the second end of the surface;
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- a recess formed below the surface and from the projection toward the first end.
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A method of scanning documents in an image formation apparatus, comprising:
- feeding documents to a scanner one by one;
- scanning the fed document;
- discharging the scanned document to a discharge tray with a surface with a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, a projection extending away from the surface and from the second end of the surface and a recess formed below the surface and extending from the projection toward the first end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.