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US 2010/0244360 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKyocera Mita Corporation
InventorKiyonori YAMAMOTO
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus 100 is equipped with a left-side cover 2, a manual supply tray 10b, a carry guide 31 and a lift plate 33, and these are rotatably supported by a third shaft 35. According to this, because it is possible to achieve size reduction of the apparatus and enlarge an protrusion length L of the lift plate 33, it is possible to reduce the change in inclination angle of the lift plate 33 and stabilize a paper-sheet supply characteristic even when the amount of paper sheets placed on the manual supply tray 10b changes.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a side cover which constitutes part of an apparatus main body and is rotatably supported at a lower end portion thereof to be freely opened and closed;
- a paper-sheet supply tray that is used to place a paper sheet thereon, constitutes part of the side cover, and supported rotatably at a lower end portion thereof to be freely opened and closed from and to the side cover;
- a paper-sheet pushing-up plate that is supported rotatably at an upstream end portion in a paper-sheet carry direction thereof, capable of pressurizing and separating the paper sheet placed on the paper-sheet supply tray to and from a paper-sheet carry roller that is disposed in the apparatus main body;
- a carry guide that is disposed along an inner surface of the side cover, supported rotatably at a lower end portion thereof, and forms a paper-sheet carry path for guiding upward the paper sheet, which is carried from the paper-sheet supply tray by the paper-sheet carry roller, in a vertical direction;
- wherein at least the side cover, the paper-sheet supply tray and the paper-sheet pushing-up plate are supported by a same support shaft.
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